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• Bloomberg: US film revenues

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/14/bloomberg-us-film-revenues/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 14, 2013 Superhero blockbusters such as “Man of Steel” boosted movie sales in the second quarter after U.S. cinema takings declined during the past two years.

• Women’s History Advent Calendar

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/29/womens-history-advent-calendar/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2024 Starting on 1st December, a window to open every day till Christmas https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=nt1kee5497mdo9efkzij7kqyil69xnum to learn about women’s history.

• About

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/about/

  This is the blog of the Social Sciences Librarians at the University of Leicester.  Your librarians are Andrew Dunn (Learning and Teaching) and William Farrell (Research).  We hope to provide you with interesting and useful information on this blog.

• IMF revamps data portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/imf-revamps-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.

• People of 1381

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/people-of-1381/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 An academic source (led by Professor Adrian Bell from Henley Business School at the University of Reading) providing commentary on the Peasants’ Revolt.

• Hub for African Thought

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/hub-for-african-thought/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.

• Womens history month map

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/womens-history-month-map/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 There are new entries on the Women’s history month map for Bolivia, India and USA. https://padlet.

• Black graduates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/black-graduates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 A HESA report which concludes that black graduates are less satisfied with their career than white graduates can be accessed from the HESA website .

• Human Rights: TikTok

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/human-rights-tiktok/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 The United Nations has launched a Human Rights TikTok account: h ttps://www.tiktok.

• Kit de Waal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/kit-de-waal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Our own writer in residence reads her autobiography Without Warning and Only Sometimes Listen on BBC Radio 4 or Box of Broadcasts . Available in the UK only.