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Sustainable Development Goals game
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/sustainable-development-goals-game/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 The United Nations have created a special board game (based on Snakes and Ladders) to teach children about 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.
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Global Gender Pay Gap report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/global-gender-pay-gap-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Closing the gender pay gap will take 135 years according to shocking statistics from the latest Economic Forum report This report benchmarks the evolution of...
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Global Gender Gap Report 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/global-gender-gap-report-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap.
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Onlinecensorship.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/onlinecensorship-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Onlinecensorship.org Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Race & … in America
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/30/race-in-america/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2022 Thirteen volumes from the Brown library.
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Leicestershire girls challenged to uncover the story behind Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicestershire-girls-challenged-to-uncover-the-story-behind-richard-iii
Thousands of girls from across Leicestershire are being challenged to find out more about King Richard III as part of an innovative new badge from Girlguiding Leicestershire.
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Plan a space mission from concept to launch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/plan-a-space-mission-from-concept-to-launch
Planning a space mission from its initial concept through to its design, assembly and take-off is now a reality thanks to the Department of Physics and Astronomy's Space Exploration Systems MSc, which sets students up for a career in the space industry by teaching...
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Leicester’s Jupiter research cited on new Royal Mail set
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/05-jupiter-stamp
The latest commemorative stamps from Royal Mail celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society. And the work of space scientists in our School of Physics and Astronomy gets a mention. Jupiter’s auroras feature on one of the £1.55 stamps.
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British summer holiday habits of the past explored by Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/british-summer-holiday-habits-of-the-past-explored-by-leicester-researchers
Visiting different countries and traveling the world is a common way people spend their summer holidays - but the historical British summer holiday would have been a much less frequent and far more local affair.