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• Social science video sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/social-science-video-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 TED videos from world leaders covering all aspects of social and environmental sciences RSA audio and events .  Includes NHS, technology and change. Videolectures net .

• Astrophysicist will have an enviable front row seat for the launch of Tim Peakes Soyuz spacecraft

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/astrophysicist-will-have-an-enviable-front-row-seat-for-the-launch-of-tim-peakes-soyuz-spacecraft

  Martin Barstow, (pictured) Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Head of the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science, will watch the launch of Tim Peake's Soyuz spacecraft live from mission control in Kazakhstan today (TUE).

• 22nd March was World Water Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/22nd-march-was-world-water-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 The official website has details on this year’s theme water and work.  It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report.

• Human Rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/human-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 54

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/54/

  Academic Librarian.

• International Debt Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/international-debt-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 International Debt Statistics 2014 Just launched by the World Bank, this new publication replaces the previous Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 to 2009) and the earlier World...

• Crusading in the Fifteenth Century

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/crusading-in-the-fifteenth-century

  Professor Norman Housley has recently been awarded two grants by the Leverhulme Trust for research into the Crusades and their impact on Europe in the pre-Reformation period. The grants complement one another.

• Event to explore how to fight and die like a Greek woman

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-to-explore-how-to-fight-and-die-like-a-greek-woman

  Ancient Greek depictions of female fighters will be explored at a free public lecture on Tuesday 15 November.

• John Bradshaw (1942-2019)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/john-bradshaw

  It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of former Head Groundskeeper John Bradshaw. John, who passed away on Monday 11 November, worked at the University from 1965 until his retirement in 2008.

• The voting slip: democracy in action?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/voting-slip

  Read the article "The voting slip: democracy in action?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.