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Refugees Deeply
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/refugees-deeply/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 Independent digital media journalism site which aims to cover the refugee crisis indepth. Other independent journalism sites on this topic which are worth checking.
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Stream Congress and Capitol Words
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/stream-congress-and-capitol-words/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://streamcongress.
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Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/23/foreign-policy-diplomacy-and-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2013 Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers.
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The Africa Desk
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/africa-desk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 http://www.africadesk.ac.uk/ A new portal designed for African studies scholars.
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Syria digital security monitoring project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/syria-digital-security-monitoring-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 http://syria.secdev.com/ Maintained by the SecDev Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit organization. It aims to provide tools to encourage digital openness in Syria.
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Leicester link to Nobel Prize winners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-link-to-nobel-prize-winners
In the latest announcement from the Nobel Prize committee, US academics Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University, Boston and Mike Young at Rockefeller University, New York, have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of...
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Expert opinions cover Boris Johnson Russia the ghoulish practice of gibbeting and offensive TV
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/expert-opinions-boris-johnson-and-the-ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting
Dr Tara McCormack from the Department of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for Spiked Online about Boris Johnson and Russia.
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China 70th anniversary of Communist rule
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/04/china-70th-anniversary-of-communist-rule/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2019 The official website in China has an English language section which discusses the anniversary Official news coverage News coverage BBC Guardian newspaper CNN graphics Wall...
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New Approaches to the Material World
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world
Archaeology and Ancient History's research in Transformative Technologies at the University of Leicester combines the study of past technologies and creative practices, with current theoretical and methodological innovations.
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British Council film collection online: British Social History
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/british-council-film-collection-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked.