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• Intimidation, slurs and threats – study uncovers racism in rural England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/intimidation-slurs-threats-study-racism-rural-england

  A study into racism in rural England has found many minority ethnic individuals and families feel the countryside is an unwelcoming and unsafe place to visit.

• Data on child poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/data-on-child-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 The TransMONEE database: Data on children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: this database is associated with with the UNICEF MONEE project on...

• Homelessness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.

• Who were the first students of the University of Leicester?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/10/13/who-were-our-first-students/

  A blog post discussing the early students of the University of Leicester.

• Economy of Cyprus

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/economy-of-cyprus/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.

• Will people in the UK live shorter lives?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...

• How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/how-happy-are-you-first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.

• Women and low pay

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/women-and-low-pay/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 A number of reports have revealed a gender disparity in pay rates.

• Stop violence against women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/stop-violence-against-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 The 16 days of activism campaign ended on 10 th December.  But the release this week of the Femicide census by Womens Aid shows why it is still necessary.

• League of Nations Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/17/league-of-nations-archives-resource-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2012 http://libraryresources.unog.