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Language of Peace Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/language-of-peace-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 The Legal Tools for Peacemaking Project at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Mediation Support Unit in the UN...
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Entrepreneurs and Innovators: from the Middle Ages to the modern day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/16/entrepreneurs-and-innovators-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-modern-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2022 A teaching resource from Box of Broadcasts aimed at increasing the employability of students from a number of degrees, including management and History.
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Student written off after failing his ALevels starts PhD at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/student-2018written-off2019-after-failing-his-a-levels-starts-phd-at-leicester
Written off at 18 after failing his A-levels, Richard Evans has just embarked on a PhD course at Leicester. The 26-year-old puts his turn around in fortunes down to the support he has received while studying for a BA in Ancient History & Archaeology.
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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...
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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.
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Knife crime, what are the facts?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/knife-crime-what-are-the-facts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Recently the papers have published lots of stories on rising levels of knife crime.
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Journeys festival makes a stop off at Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/journeys-festival-makes-a-stop-at-attenborough-arts-centre
The Attenborough Arts Centre is hosting an event as part of the ArtReach's 'Journeys' festival, which celebrates the artistic talents of refugee and asylum seeker artists, sharing refugee stories through great art and culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.