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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/about/
This is the blog of the Social Sciences Librarians at the University of Leicester. Your librarians are Andrew Dunn (Learning and Teaching) and William Farrell (Research). We hope to provide you with interesting and useful information on this blog.
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Picturing Lincoln
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/picturing-lincoln/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 The Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has digitised more than 1,000 images of the American president. They cover his home life, his time in office and his assassination.
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People of 1381
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/people-of-1381/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 An academic source (led by Professor Adrian Bell from Henley Business School at the University of Reading) providing commentary on the Peasants’ Revolt.
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Hub for African Thought
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/hub-for-african-thought/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.
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IMF revamps data portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/imf-revamps-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
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Museums in Ukraine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/25/museums-in-ukraine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2023 A special issue of Museum and Society has been published on the topic of museums in Ukraine https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.
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Human Rights: TikTok
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/human-rights-tiktok/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 The United Nations has launched a Human Rights TikTok account: h ttps://www.tiktok.
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New Global refugee archive launched…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/01/new-global-refugee-archive-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2021 … online by Brigham Young University.
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Google tracks your movements even when you tell it not to
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/google-tracks-your-movements-even-when-you-tell-it-not-to/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 Associated Press investigative report with worrying findings released this week.
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Global Cybersecurity Index 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/19/global-cybersecurity-index-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 19, 2021 The latest annual ranking from the ITU measures national countries legal measures (e.g.