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Global Teacher Status Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/global-teacher-status-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Global Teacher Status Index A new study out this week ranks the status of teachers in various countries.
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May Day: early 19th century traditions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/04/29/may-day-early-19th-century-traditions/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2016 Laying May branches Whilst many associate traditional celebrations of May Day with maypoles and Morris dancers, one early nineteenth century custom featured ‘Mayers’ (those included in May Day...
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Left Behind
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/left-behind/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 From the USA’s National Deaf Life Museum this website explores the often-forgotten Deaf experience during the AIDS crisis. Includes images, oral histories and accounts.
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Picturing Lincoln
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/picturing-lincoln/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 The Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has digitised more than 1,000 images of the American president. They cover his home life, his time in office and his assassination.
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Study
https://le.ac.uk/english/study
Find out more about studying English at the University of Leicester. Undergraduates can focus on English, or studying English alongside Creative Writing, American Studies, History, Journalism, Film Studies, or Modern Languages.
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We Wear Culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/13/we-wear-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2017 Great New Project from Google Arts and Culture Offers which offers free access to 30,000 Digitized Images and VR Films of Fashion Pieces From 180 famous Archives, Museums and Others.
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Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/2/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Covid-19 and Labour statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/04/27/covid-19-and-labour-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2020 Worldwide portal launched by ILO It is considering employment and unemployment. Mention is also made on the impact and ability of national suppliers to collect statistics.
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Motor City Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.
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Vulnerability: A Research Method for Literary and Cultural Studies
https://le.ac.uk/vulnerability-studies/vulnerable-reading
This AHRC-funded project maps a body of contemporary literary and cultural responses to cross-border vulnerabilities in North America, focusing on intersecting crises of gender and race-based vulnerability, such as femicide and violence against Indigenous people.