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  • The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organized by the Campaign for Social Science

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/the-riots-of-summer-2011-seminar-organized-by-the-campaign-for-social-science/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.socialsciencespace.

  • The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/the-prado-museums-new-digital-library/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 …provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century.

  • 2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The thread that binds

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/2018-state-of-the-worlds-volunteerism-report-the-thread-that-binds/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 The United Nations has just released its annual report on volunteering.  It has estimations on the extent of volunteering by nation and gender.

  • International Day of the Girl Child

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/international-day-of-the-girl-child/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 was celebrated by the UN on October 11th   The official website has news , related resolutions and a resource section with reports including empowerment guidelines and statistics...

  • New insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant revealed in BBC One documentary

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant-revealed-in-bbc-one-documentary

    New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in a BBC One documentary hosted by Sir David Attenborough and featuring a University of Leicester...

  • Knife crime, what are the facts?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/knife-crime-what-are-the-facts/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Recently the papers have published lots of stories on rising levels of knife crime.

  • Leicester history resources

    https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/leicester-history-resources

  • 70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/70th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations-next-year/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A  new online exhibition  is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.

  • Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice: people and possibilities in the age of Artificial

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/human-development-report-2025-a-matter-of-choice-people-and-possibilities-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to the 2025 Human Development Report released on 6 May 2025 by the United Nations Development Programme.

  • The lost Banksy interview

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/22/the-lost-banksy-interview/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2023 A new episode of The Bansky Story, including a newly-discovered interview with Banksy, is now available on our playlist.

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