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• With Liberty and Justice for All? US History since 1776

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs1017

  Module code: HS1017 This module will survey the history of the United States since 1877, introducing you to the key events, issues and themes in order to provide you with a framework for further study in United States history.

• Permissible Beauty

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/permissible-beauty

  Permissible Beauty examines how beauty has been defined, hailed and perceived in the past and how this is reflected in – and shaped by – our nation’s heritage.

• Written in the stars TV and radio science presenter Professor Jim AlKhalili to discuss the role of determinism in our universe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/written-in-the-stars-tv-and-radio-science-presenter-professor-jim-al-khalili-to-discuss-the-role-of-determinism-in-our-universe

  Do you consider your actions the result of free will, or of a preordained path we are destined to follow? At the Institute of Physics 2018 Prestige Lecture, hosted at our University, physicist and presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE will lead a whistle-stop tour of modern...

• Online workshop: Global Dress and Migration in History - call for papers

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/global-dress-and-migration-in-history

  A call for papers for the online workshop, Global Dress and Migration in History, taking place on 29 and 30 November 2024.

• 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.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/196/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Lost for words Poetry aplenty at the Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/lost-for-words-poetry-a-plenty-at-the-attenborough-arts-centre

  Our Attenborough Arts Centre will be hosting a showcase of spoken word performance poets working with Out-Spoken Press, an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing.

• 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.

• Quality of Life in the EU

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.

• Is the Treasury being Economic with the truth about Brexit?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/is-the-treasury-being-economic-with-the-truth-about-brexit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Recently the UK government claimed that a possible UK exit from Europe would have an immediate economic impact.