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• Things you probably don’t know about the US Civil Rights Movement

  https://le.ac.uk/hypir/subject-tasters/us-civil-rights

  Professor George Lewis tells us things you probably don’t know about Martin Luther King Jr and the US Civil Rights Movement.

• Star Wars 50 Years: Pasts, Presents, and Futures

  https://le.ac.uk/media/research/star-wars-50-years

  Join the Star Wars 50 Years academic conference in Leicester (May 2027). Submit papers on film, fandom, media, and culture by 1 November 2026.

• Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to  gender-responsive disaster risk...

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/18/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-2021/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2021 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021: Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste and gender .

• Statelessness Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/statelessness-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 In March a new tool, the Statelessness Index ,  to compare national EU government policies towards stateless persons was launched by the European Network on Statelessness It makes...

• Prague Spring Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/27/prague-spring-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 27, 2017 New from the  collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Lyndon B.

• Journalists in danger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.

• Europe-wide data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

• Presidential inaugurations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.

• New Portal launched to support diversity in University Boards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/new-portal-launched-to-support-diversity-in-university-boards/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 Advance HE and the CUC (Committee of University Chairs), in collaboration with AHUA (Association of Heads of University Administration) and the 30% Club, have launched a new ‘board...