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Nine Leicester academics appointed to Research Excellence Framework 2029 roles
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/leicester-academics-appointed-research-excellence-framework-2029
Research England has appointed nine academics from the University of Leicester to serve as expert panellists in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF2029).
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Children and Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/children-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 How much time do British children spend using social media each day? Results from Ofcom which is based on 3-day digital diaries of 186 primary school children and 173 secondary.
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Hungarian revolution, 1956
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/hungarian-revolution-1956/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November...
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/13/digital-library-of-the-caribbean/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2021 Digital Library of the Caribbean: https://www.dloc.com/ – “ a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
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Trump’s remarks and speeches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/trumps-remarks-and-speeches/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 FactCheck.org has launched a special section on its website for fact checking transcripts of the presidents remarks and political speeches .
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NATO Archives Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/nato-archives-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The official website now contains early committee documents from 1949-1959, press releases from 1961 onwards and over 300 full text books.
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British Political Speech Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/british-political-speech-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards.
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Shaping Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/10/shaping-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2024 Shaping Europe The story of European Parliament elections. An online exhibition created by Europeana which is supported by Europe’s national libraries and heritage organisations.
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Russian Books of the 18th Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/russian-books-of-the-18th-century/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Open access collection from the University of Illinois Slavic Reference Collection.
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Striking Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/striking-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 An educational site developed by developed by Dr Sundari Anitha from the University of Lincoln and Professor Ruth Pearson from the University of Leeds in 2013 but worth rediscovering.