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  • Sami Zubaida

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

  • South African Governmental Publications collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/south-african-governmental-publications-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 South African Governmental Publications collection  is now available on the LSE Digital Library .   It contains government and colonial publications.

  • Primary Sources: speeches

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1266/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013  Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings.  For speeches, choose spoken word speeches.

  • University of Leicester helps bring justice after 30 years

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-university-of-leicester-helps-bring-justice-after-30-years

    Double helix of DNA 2050|Reviving the original technology of DNA fingerprinting helps bring justice after 30 years to convict rapist DNA fingerprinting tests performed at the University of Leicester has this week helped to convict Benjamin Whitehead for a rape he committed...

  • New research shows the proportion of adults with autism or psychotic disorders remains stable

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/autism-psychotic-national-survey-leicester-apms

    Results from the latest part of a national survey on mental health reveal the number of adults diagnosed with autism and psychotic disorders in England has not risen since data was first collected in 2007

  • Andrew Dunn: Page 54

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

    Academic Librarian.

  • Holocaust Memorial Day lecture to inaugurate new Erasmus partnership between our University and the University of Rostock

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/holocaust-memorial-day-lecture-to-inaugurate-new-erasmus-partnership-between-our-university-and-the-university-of-rostock

    The origins of Nazi genocide will be explored at our University's annual Holocaust Memorial Day lecture at 6:00pm on Tuesday 24 January 2017.

  • Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts 

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze

    Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...

  • Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/nelson-mandela-digital-archive-project/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 http://archives.nelsonmandela.org/#!home New resource created by Google in association with the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to commemorate the life and political career of the man.

  • People

    https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/people

    Learn more about the people involved in the Centre for New Writing.

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