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New issue of Museum and Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/16/new-issue-of-museum-and-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2023 Museum and Society, one of our university’s open-access journals, has published a new issue.
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Press freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/press-freedom-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 To mark World Press Freedom day, UNESCO adopted the Riga Declaration . This affirms the importance of free journalism for sustainable development.
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Is your press free?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders. Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.
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Short story short-list
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/05/01/short-story-short-list/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on May 1, 2014 Dr Jonathan Taylor’s Kontakte and Other Stories has been short-listed for the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection 2014 and The Leicester Shindig Open-Mic Poetry Evenings which Jonathan, as...
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UNCTAD COVID-19 Response Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/unctad-covid-19-response-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 United Nations Conference on trade and development has launched a new portal with data on the impact of Covid-19 on manufacturing, trade and foreign direct investment. It has 25 indicators.
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Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/27/taube-archive-of-the-international-military-tribunal-at-nuremberg-1945-1946/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 The archive of the IMT is now online via the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice website .
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General News on the Internet Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress . Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.
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Parliamentary Procedure handbook now free online UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/parliamentary-procedure-handbook-now-free-online-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 Now freely available via the UK parliament website: Erskine May’s treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament (25th edition, 2019).
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South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/south-asian-gender-and-sexuality-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 New web archive from the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation and available from the archive.it website.
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University of Leicester staff blog English (and History) Society Ball
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/05/09/english-and-history-society-ball/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on May 9, 2014 Yesterday was the English Society annual ball, which was held jointly with the History Society.