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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mentions of Trident on Historical Hansard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/21/mentions-of-trident-on-historical-hansard/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2016 Blog post on the Talking Humanities blog analyses the use of the word  Trident in parliamentary debate: https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.

• 2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The thread that binds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/2018-state-of-the-worlds-volunteerism-report-the-thread-that-binds/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 The United Nations has just released its annual report on volunteering.  It has estimations on the extent of volunteering by nation and gender.

• Scientists suggest significant scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earths history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-suggest-significant-scale-of-human-impact-on-planet-has-changed-course-of-earth2019s-history

  The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists led by our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment has suggested.

• New insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant revealed in BBC One documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant-revealed-in-bbc-one-documentary

  New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in a BBC One documentary hosted by Sir David Attenborough and featuring a University of Leicester...

• 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.

• Expert opinions cover Boris Johnson Russia the ghoulish practice of gibbeting and offensive TV

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/expert-opinions-boris-johnson-and-the-ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting

  Dr Tara McCormack from the Department of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for Spiked Online about Boris Johnson and Russia.

• Sites of Feminist Memory: A Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/sites-of-feminist-memory-a-map-of-memorials-to-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 This site was created by citizen science which aims to geolocate on a visual map key sites to feminist memorials worldwide.