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Announcing 2022 Summer Internships for Leicester Undergraduates
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/01/17/announcing-2022-summer-internships-for-leicester-undergraduates/
Applications are open for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme for 3rd and 4th year Leicester undergraduates.
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50 years of credit cards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.
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Images of BBC Radio Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/27/images-of-bbc-radio-leicester/
Information about a collection of slides of BBC Radio Leicester
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Students embark on RAF Stories mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-students-embark-raf-stories-mission
History students at the University of Leicester have teamed up with the RAF Museum, Cosford and students at De Montfort University for a community project to capture the memoirs of residents who share connections to the RAF.
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New resources on women’s suffrage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/new-resources-on-womens-suffrage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 A new teaching resource Endell Street – Women’s Military Hospital Project , focuses on the changing role of women from the 1900s to 1920, with a particular emphasis on women’s...
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New president’s online collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/new-presidents-online-collections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently added to the Library of Congress website: the papers of President James Garfield .
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100 Voices that made the BBC – Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/100-voices-that-made-the-bbc-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 A significant new audio and visual archive of historic election coverage released as part of a research project by the BBC and University of Sussex.
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NI Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/ni-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection.
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Equal Pay Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equal-pay-day-3/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equal pay day 2017 is the 10 th November. This is the date after which effectively pay becomes unequal with men earning more than women.
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Economics in the Rear-View Mirror
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/12/economics-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2015 Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard from 1932 to 1950. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.