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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The World Wealth and 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...

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • 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.

  • Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 11

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Don’t panic, Mary Berry’s 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.

  • 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.

  • Margaret Maclean

    Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library

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