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• Black Women Radicals Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/01/black-women-radicals-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2024 Biographies of women activists from Africa and the African diaspora. The database is constantly updated and is free for educational use.

• Children and Social Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/children-and-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 How much time do British children spend using social media each day? Results from Ofcom which is based on 3-day digital diaries of 186 primary school children and 173 secondary.

• Dryad Basketry

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/11/dryad-basketry/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2024 https://www.leicestermuseums.

• Arch-I-Scan

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan

  Explore how AHRC-funded, Leicester Arch-I-Scan research project applies machine learning technology and Artificial Intelligence to Roman archaeology (samian pottery).

• Global Economic Prospects June 2012

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/15/global-economic-prospects-june-2012/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 15, 2012 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGBLPROSPECTSAPRIL/0,, menuPK:659178%7EpagePK:64218926%7EpiPK:642189537EtheSitePK:659149,00.

• Technology and protest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/technology-and-protest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.

• Convicts and other (“free” and “unfree”) workers. Views from the First ELHN Conference

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/12/19/convicts-and-other-free-and-unfree-workers-views-from-the-first-elhn-conference/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2015 How can we frame convict labour in the broader context of entangled labour relations? This is one of the key-questions in the Carceral Archipelago project, which seeks to understand how (especially...

• Online fact-checking – a growing trend

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/online-fact-checking-a-growing-trend/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 A recent report from the Reuters Institute has traced the rise of political fact-checking sites in Europe. It recorded 113 such groups are active today.

• Booker Prize winner 2024

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/14/booker-prize-winner-2024/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 14, 2024 Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.

• Benjamin Zephaniah

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/07/benjamin-zephaniah/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 7, 2023 Sadly, Benjamin Zephaniah has passed away at the age of 65. We have many of his books in the library collection.