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International Day of the Girl – 11th October
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/international-day-of-the-girl-11th-october/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 Girls ‘banned from using mobile phones’ in many nations Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl.
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Aid Worker Security database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/aid-worker-security-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers.
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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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Employers who underpay workers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/employers-who-underpay-workers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.
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Girls are more unhappy with their lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/girls-are-more-unhappy-with-their-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 Shocking findings f rom the latest Children’s Society Annual Report .
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Discovering Collections Discovering Communities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/15/discovering-collections-discovering-communities/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 15, 2015 This week I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference in the impressive Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.
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Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 11
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/11/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Don’t panic, Mary Berry’s Bakewell tart recipe is safe!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/19/dont-panic-mary-berrys-bakewell-tart-recipe-is-safe/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 19, 2016 University of Leicester Homepage, 13 June 1997 (source: Wayback Machine) It is almost impossible to conduct academic research today without at some stage needing to access information on the internet.
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Who owned the Wicked Bible?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/23/who-owned-the-wicked-bible/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 23, 2015 It’s been reported in the news this week that a copy of the so called “Wicked Bible” is to be auctioned at Bonhams in November.
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Margaret Maclean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/
Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library