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• Civil Rights cold case portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/civil-rights-cold-case-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA.

• Elizabeth Blood

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/elizabeth_blood/

  Research Associate

• Leicester Lit & Phil University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/19/leicester-lit-phil/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 19, 2013 This is just a quick plug for colleagues’ contributions to this year’s Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society lecture programme.

• Facebook launches Notify News App

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.

• Is your bank under stress?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.

• Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .

• Europe-wide data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

• ‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.

• World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.