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Museum Data Service
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/18/museum-data-service/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2024 Museum Data Service is a cross-sector catalogue which aims to provide access to over 100 million records from 1,750 UK museums.
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The library in the penal colony: Chekhov’s unsung gift to Sakhalin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/07/the-library-in-the-penal-colony-chekhovs-unsung-gift-to-sakhalin/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on June 7, 2017 Chekhov’s contribution to the cultural landscape of the Sakhalin penal colony (1868-1905), the establishment of several school libraries containing more than 2,200 volumes for the island’s...
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The Essence of Cycling
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/essence-cycling
Learn more about the Centre's commissioned piece into the benefits of exercise; and more specifically, cycling.
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Exhibition: Women, Politics, Textiles
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/14/exhibition-women-politics-textiles/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2022 What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles is a 2022 exhibition being held physically in New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, it also has an accompanying...
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Opendata for Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/opendata-for-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data.
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Researchers identify common biological features of different types of asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/researchers-identify-common-biological-features-of-different-types-of-asthma
Researchers have identified biological variations in lung tissue samples that for the first time can help identify people with mild asthma from those with moderate or severe asthma.
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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.
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Integrated National Financing Framework Knowledge Platform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/integrated-national-financing-framework-knowledge-platform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 A global knowledge platform on Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF), jointly developed by DESA/FSDO , UNDP and the European Commission.
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Where do LGBT people live?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/where-do-lgbt-people-live/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 Data from the office of National Statistics which highlights sexual identity at a local authority level from 2013-2015. It also includes breakdown by age and gender.
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Leicester alumnus listed as one of the 10 Faces to Watch in 2015
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-alumnus-listed-as-one-of-10-faces-to-watch-in-2015
27 year-old musician Ben Webb (pictured), an alumnus of the University, has been listed as one of the Independent’s 10 Faces to Watch in 2015, which includes musicians, dancers, and stars of the stage and screen who their critics believe are “rising stars ready to take the...