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• 50 years of credit cards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.

• How much time do students spend studying?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/01/how-much-time-do-students-spend-studying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2019 The 2019 engagement survey by AdvanceHE records a decline since 2016 in the proportion of students spending 11 hours or more per week in taught classes and/or independent learning;...

• World Cities Culture Report 2012

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/world-cities-culture-report-2012/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.worldcitiesculturereport.com/ Produced by the Mayor of London; the biggest international survey of its kind.

• Simon Knell

  https://le.ac.uk/people/simon-knell

  The academic profile of Professor Simon Knell, Professor of Contemporary Museology at University of Leicester

• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 IDAHOT 2016 was celebrated on May 17 th .  Find out why this day was chosen and why it continues to be needed with this blog posting from the LSE.

• University of Leicester Announces Exciting Summer Events Programme in Partnership with Attenborough Arts Centre and Oadby & Wigston Borough Council

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/attenborough-arts-summer-events

  The University of Leicester is delighted to unveil its 2025 Summer events programme, delivered with Attenborough Arts Centre, in partnership with Oadby & Wigston Borough Council.

• Media, Society and Culture BA

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/media-and-society-ba/2026

  Combine an in-depth study of the media with the exploration of sociology, with the University of Leicester’s Media and Society degree.

• 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.

• World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/worlds-women-2015-trends-and-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics.   Launched by the UN this week.  Data on population, health, education, work, power, violence, poverty.

• Ready to research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/ready-to-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 http://www.readytoresearch.ac.