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American Presidential Nominations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/american-presidential-nominations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.
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Peace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/02/peace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2012 The Peace Accords Matrix from the Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.
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Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/16/center-for-women-and-politics-rutgers-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2012 http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections.
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US Election Advertising
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/us-election-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Electad: http://electad.com/ An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews.
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Green screen technology in the Classroom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/10/02/green-screen-technology-in-the-classroom/
Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 2, 2019 The technology is now surprisingly easy to use (see below), but WHY would you want to place yourself or students in front of a different background? Purely for the fun...
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Archiving Richard III
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/04/23/archiving-richard-iii/
Posted by rmaguire in Library and Learning Services on April 23, 2025 King Richard III by Unknown artist oil on panel, late 16th century © National Portrait Gallery, London In November 2023 I began a two-year project to bring together the digital records generated by the...
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What makes cities competitive?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/what-makes-cities-competitive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Find out by downloading a recent working paper from the World Bank – Kilroy, A.F.L., Mukim, M., Negri, S. (2015) Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how .
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Paris attacks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/paris-attacks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 News reports Two useful sites which aggregate reports from other sources 24/7 News Now covers more than 40,000 sources. Country indicated by national flag next to the headline.
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SIPRI
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/sipri/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 SIPRI Yearbook 2013 – f rom the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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Changing viewing habits – binge viewing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/10/changing-viewing-habits-binge-viewing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2017 Are we a nation of binge viewers? Yes according to the latest annual Communication Markets report released by Ofcom this week.