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• Economic arguments for gender equality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/economic-arguments-for-gender-equality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Great economic evidence in favour of Gender equality was published in this recent report from the EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality) which quoted the data that on average...

• The UK housing market

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/the-uk-housing-market/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 The Legal and General reported that from its findings in 2016 the bank of mum and dad was involved in 25% of all property transactions.

• 2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The thread that binds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/2018-state-of-the-worlds-volunteerism-report-the-thread-that-binds/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 The United Nations has just released its annual report on volunteering.  It has estimations on the extent of volunteering by nation and gender.

• UK Web Archive Gender Equality Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/10/uk-web-archive-gender-equality-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2018 The UK web archive aims to preserve for posterity websites with UK domain addresses. It has a number of special themed collections.

• SIPRI

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/sipri/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 SIPRI Yearbook 2013  –  f rom the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

• Is the UK an equal society?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/is-the-uk-an-equal-society/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Released this week, the Casey Review into opportunity and integration. This independent review was commissioned in July 2015 and conducted by Dame Louise Casey.

• Poll Books in Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.

• Happy International Archives Day 2018!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/happy-international-archives-day-2018/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2018 The University records manager, David Jenkins, and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) thought we’d take the opportunity to flag up IAD18 and explain a bit about what we do all day!   On the 9th of...

• ‘A photographic revolutionary’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.

• Death’s Doings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/24/deaths-doings/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 24, 2015 In spite of all the Hypochondriac’s attempts to keep sickness at bay, Death comes whizzing down the chimney in the form of a skeletal spider. The Hypochondriac’s cat remains unmoved.