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• Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/observatory-of-algorithms-with-social-impact/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 A listing from the Eticas Foundation  which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact.

• Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.

• 2017 Atlas of Sustainable development goals

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/2017-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Just released by the World Bank a visual mapping of progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development goals which include: ending poverty, good health, access to education, sustainable cities.

• Digital Documentary Resources in Nilgiri and Coimbatore (1850-1970)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/27/digital-documentary-resources-in-nilgiri-and-coimbatore-1850-1970/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 The collections digitised in this project consist mostly of photographs dating from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries.

• Economy of Cyprus

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/economy-of-cyprus/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.

• US Armed Forces: Overseas activity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/us-armed-forces-overseas-activity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long.

• 45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/45-of-british-adults-display-antisemitic-attitudes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 According to the  Annual Antisemitism Barometer  issued by Campaign against Antisemitism, ‘45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes’.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/176/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• The Weakest Links Anne Robinson to speak at Literary Leicester event honouring the life of revered editor Alexander Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/the-weakest-link2019s-anne-robinson-to-speak-at-literary-leicester-event-honouring-the-life-of-revered-editor-alexander-chancellor

  A panel of esteemed writers and journalists will commemorate the life and work of Spectator editor Alexander Chancellor CBE on Wednesday 15 November at 4.00 pm.

• Cultures of the Caribbean past and present in podcast

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/cultures-of-the-caribbean-past-and-present-in-podcast

  A Leicester archaeologist has launched a new podcast that explores the fascinating history of the Caribbean Islands as told through its objects.