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• Visualising Palestine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/visualising-palestine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 This award winning site was originally launched in 2012.

• Shaping the Future: Space Park Leicester presentation to Parliament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/19-shaping-the-future

  Members of the Parliamentary Scientific Committee hear from a University of Leicester delegation on the space economy and low cost access to space.

• Protest camps explored in new book co-edited by Leicester academics

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/protest-camps-explored-in-new-book-co-edited-by-leicester-academics

  A new book on protest camps and political activism, edited by two Leicester academics, will be published on Wednesday 29 March.

• 18 days in Egypt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/18-days-in-egypt/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 http://beta.18daysinegypt.

• Election turnouts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/election-turnouts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 History Workshop has posted an interesting 1955 anarchist pamphlet on its website called vote for Joe Soap.  It raises the issue for voter non turnout.

• Soldier magazine archive online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/soldier-magazine-archive-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier , has been digitised and is now available online for free.

• Suicides: UK prisons and beyond

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.

• Longer lives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.

• Researchers recognised for public engagement skills

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/researchers-recognised-for-public-engagement-skills

  Winners of a competition that challenged our researchers to summarise their research in a mere three minutes have been announced.

• Bob Palmer

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/bob-palmer

  Terry Brugha, Professor of Psychiatry, writes: It is with sad regrets that I bring to you the news of the death of our dear friend, colleague and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Bob Palmer (Dr Robert L Palmer) who passed away on 3 September 2020.