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• Secrets of our ancient animal ancestors may be revealed through oldest DNA sequences

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/secrets-of-our-ancient-animal-ancestors-may-be-revealed-through-oldest-dna-sequences

  700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how they influenced modern species - including the sponge.

• Britain’s first space explorer is honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/honorand-helen-sharman

  Britain’s first astronaut has paid tribute to the University of Leicester’s world class space research.

• Disability history in TFL transport for London archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/disability-history-in-tfl-transport-for-london-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 A webinar recording 60 mins .

• Exhibition: Women, Politics, Textiles

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/14/exhibition-women-politics-textiles/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2022 What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles  is a 2022 exhibition being held physically in New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, it also has an accompanying...

• Digital Terrorism and Hate Report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released its 2022 annual   Digital Terrorism and Hate Report    It includes coverage of homophobia and transphobia and fake news...

• IFS launch UK inequality review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/15/ifs-launch-uk-inequality-review/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2019 Announced recently by IFS, funded by the  Nuffield Foundation  and chaired by Nobel Laureate  Professor Sir Angus Deaton .

• The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is 17th May

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/17/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-is-17th-may/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2019 IDAHOBIT 2019 The International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is 17th  May Stonewall has shared some key support organisations .

• Global Childhood report published

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/10/global-childhood-report-published/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2019 Save the Children has just published its third annual report which examines the condition of children in different nations worldwide.

• Women and the Internet

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/women-and-the-internet/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Tim Berners–Lee open letter why the Internet is not working for women and girls.

• Does the Internet have a negative effect of Morality?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/does-the-internet-have-a-negative-effect-of-morality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 Certainly according to the latest Pew global attitudes survey from Spring 2014 which covered 32 nations.