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• United Nations Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/united-nations-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter.   Read the full text of this historic document online.

• Oadby telescope in black hole study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/oadby-telescope-in-black-hole-study

  A telescope in Oadby is playing a crucial part in observing a rare astronomical phenomenon. NASA's Swift satellite detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from the constellation Cygnus on June 15, just before 2:32 p.m. EDT.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 106

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/106/

  Academic Librarian.

• 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.

• Keep Calm and Scroll On! (Pt.3)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/04/23/keep-calm-and-scroll-on-pt-3/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 23, 2020   Exterior of the Library, c.

• The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/people

  Our members make up an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists. Here, you can learn more about our institute management board and leadership team.

• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/human-trafficking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 A new report from the Centre for Social Justice http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.

• Colourful plastics may lead to more microplastics: new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/microplastic-colours

  Study led by University of Leicester concludes that colourants in plastic can affect the rate at which it breaks down and can lead to more harmful microplastics released into the environment

• Universal Children’s Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/universal-childrens-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 Universal Children’s day  20 th November was also universal children’s day.