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Street protests and their repression
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/street-protests-and-their-repression/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations released a report: Take back the streets about the repression of street protests worldwide. Countries covered include: U.S., U.K.
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8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.
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Republic of South Sudan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/25/republic-of-south-sudan/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2011 The Republic of South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations. Read the official UN resolution at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/65/L.
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Bloomberg: Credit Default Swaps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-credit-default-swaps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data.
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David Bradshaw Creative Writing Residency
https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/david-bradshaw-residency
Find out more about the David Bradshaw Creative Writing Residency and the collaboration with the Evelyn Waugh Complete Works project.
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Economics
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/economics
Find your research degree supervisor in Economics at Leicester.
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Martyrdom, Memory and the Marquis of Montrose. By Rachel Bennett
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/03/22/martyrdom-memory-and-the-marquis/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on March 22, 2016 During the past three years a key part of my research as part of the Criminal Corpse project has been to trace the people who suffered the last punishment of the law from their capital...
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The latest adventures of MS 210
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/22/the-latest-adventures-of-ms-210/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 22, 2019 In a follow-up to his previous blog post, The Beast in Me , Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo reports on the most recent adventures of our “Ethiopic Manuscript”, MS 210.
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Cricket Country
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/cricket-country
An account of the history of Cricket, India, and the British Empire
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Brian Burch OBE
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/brian-burch
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Brian Burch OBE, who served as University Librarian from 1982 to 1995 and also wrote the definitive history of the University.