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• Presidential debates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/presidential-debates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.

• Other information

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/interviewing/other-info

  Find more information on oral history, such as resources for interviewing and qualitative data.

• Occupy Wall Street

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/occupy-wall-street/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials.

• Research resources

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/research/resources

  The University of Leicester holds excellent research resources for medieval studies, such as the significant collection of manuscripts and rare books held in the University Library. Find out more about these available resources.

• Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.

• Caribbean Takeaway Takeover

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/20/caribbean-takeaway-takeover/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2022 Caribbean Takeaway Takeover: Identities and Stories   Oral histories of ten Caribbean elders from the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK between the 1940s-1960s, have been...

• Evelyn Waugh and His Circle: Reading and Editing the Complete Works

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/05/27/evelyn-waugh-and-his-circle-reading-and-editing-the-complete-works/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on May 27, 2014 As many of you might know already, in 2015 we are planning a glitzy international Evelyn Waugh conference here in Leicester. Richard III is SO 2013.

• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• Expert opinions cover gravitational waves pornography and the Sex Buyer Law

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/expert-opinions-cover-gravitational-waves-pornography-and-the-sex-buyer-law

  Professor Andrew King from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has written an article for The Conversation discussing the LIGO experiment to detect gravitational waves in space.

• HOWL

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/howl/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 History of Women’s Liberation has just been launched The main aim of the HOWL website is to collect the memories and stories of feminists involved in women’s liberation movement in...