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• Stories of a Different Kind

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/stories-of-a-different-kind

  Stories of a Different Kind was developed to engage the public in a reassessment of widely held assumptions surrounding disability.

• 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.

• Visualising Information for Advocacy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/visualising-information-for-advocacy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 https://visualisingadvocacy.

• ‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/01/one-of-the-most-remarkable-men-in-the-entire-history-of-archaeology/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...

• Victorian Studies Centre marks 50th anniversary with convivial evening celebrating the works of Charles Dickens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/victorian-studies-centre-marks-50th-anniversary-with-convivial-evening-celebrating-the-works-of-charles-dickens

  The University of Leicester’s Victorian Studies Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a convivial Dickensian evening on 22 November, which will see an international team of academics speak on the life and works of author Charles Dickens.

• Fake news spreads faster than true

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...

• ITN Productions launches citizen journalism channel

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/itn-productions-launches-citizen-journalism-channel/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/user/truthloader A new initiative to encourage citizen reporters to help shape news stories called Truthloader. See the mission statement video via YouTube.

• World Statistics Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/26/world-statistics-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2020 20 th October was World Statistics day .

• A New History of Bronze: crafting, leadership and violence

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/a-new-history-of-bronze

  Research project page for A New History of Bronze: crafting, leadership and violence. Detailing the project hosts, methodology, the research team, and example publications.

• The diversity of HE governors

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/the-diversity-of-he-governors/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 The first ever report on this subject has been published by AdvanceHE.