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‘Dear Jackie’ doctor letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/dear-jackie-doctor-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A digital collection from Glasgow Women’s library with some images and full text. The letters sent by teenage girls to the 1980s teen magazine health problem page.
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Historic photographs: the changing workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/2387/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online.
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Election Access Observation Toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/election-access-observation-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), along with the Disabled Person’s Organization (DPO) has developed an Election Access Observation Toolkit.
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#ColorOurCollections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/10/colorourcollections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2021 For women’s history month, Europeana has released a great new colouring book about women in history with images from Europe’s greatest library and heritage collections.
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Modern Slavery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/modern-slavery-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 The Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (the Modern Slavery PEC) A consortium of six academic organisations funded by the Art and Humanities Research...
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Open-access books on gender and sexuality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/5242/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the six large American university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance aims to offer...
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Students Union name Guide Dogs UK puppy Lester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students2019-union-name-guide-dog-puppy-2018lester2019
Following exceptional fundraising efforts in the past few years, the University of Leicester Students’ Union has had the honour of naming a beautiful eight-week-old white Labrador Guide Dogs UK pup.
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Library research skills session this term
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/01/25/library-research-skills-sessions-this-term/
Advert for library research skills classes for research students at the University of Leicester
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How many women have served in the US Congress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/how-many-women-have-served-in-the-us-congress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Get the data from the latest Library of Congress CRS report Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information and Listings by State and Congress.
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Charlie Hebdo: Internet archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/charlie-hebdo-internet-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Internet Archive Global Events and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France are creating an archive of web materials about the January 7th, 2014 attacks in Paris.