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Dont try this at home How to make fireworks 17thcentury style
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/dont-try-this-at-home-how-to-make-fireworks-17th-century-style
With Guy Fawkes night (5 November) and Diwali (11 November) on the horizon, the skies of Leicester will be lit up over the next few weeks by firework displays - and a rare book held within the University's Library sheds light on how 17th century fireworks were made.
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Digging for Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/17-digging-for-britain
Digging for Britain Digging for Britain|A University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) excavation, will feature on BBC4’s Digging for Britain on Wednesday 19 December at 9.00pm.
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Autumn or Spring
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/autum-spring
Learn more about the Autumn/Spring programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Electoral Integrity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/electoral-integrity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Electoral Integrity Project An independent international project headed by University of Sydney and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Women and pension schemes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/women-and-pension-schemes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are women saving into pension schemes. However women typically still saved less than men.
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Impact of festivals project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/impact-of-festivals-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 If you are attending music festivals over the summer take a look at the blog from this research project which is being funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme.
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Tweeting
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/tweeting/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Twitter transparency report Latest update on official requests for information and take down from governments to Twitter.
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8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.
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Half-time in the Brexit negotiations: Scotland’s viewpoint
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/half-time-in-the-brexit-negotiations-scotlands-viewpoint/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 Half-Time in the Brexit Negotiations: The Voters’ Scorecard ” is the result of a public opinion survey in Scotland.
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Bloomberg: Emerging markets exchange traded fund
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/bloomberg-emerging-markets-exchange-traded-fund/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 BlackRock Inc.’s emerging markets exchange traded fund took in more deposits in September than in any other month this year, Bloomberg News reported.