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• Death Sentences in 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/death-sentence-in-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 Amnesty International publishes its latest annual report and statistical data on the death penalty worldwide in 2014 .

• Rap music

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .

• The Data Journalism Handbook

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/28/the-data-journalism-handbook/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2014 http://datajournalismhandbook.org/  A free, open-source reference book written after a 48-hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. Also available in the library at 070.40285 DAT.

• Women in politics 2017 infographic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/women-in-politics-2017-infographic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Really great A3 size visual mapping created by the IPU which clearly shows on a worldwide map statistics and ranking on women’s political leadership and parliamentary representation.

• Christmas comes earlier every year!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/christmas-comes-earlier-every-year/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 The Royal Statistical Society recently published an  essay based on Internet search terms which found that in 2007 people started thinking about Xmas in November however last...

• Open-access books on gender and sexuality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/5242/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Big Ten Open Books  project, a collaboration between the six large American university presses and libraries of the  Big Ten Academic Alliance   aims to offer...

• Chinese Comic Book covers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/10/chinese-comic-book-covers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2021 Chinese comic book covers   Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Zhaohui Xue, this online exhibition from Stanford University of the covers of various comic books held in the...

• Catalysts for Collaboration Launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/13/catalysts-for-collaboration-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2017 Catalysts for Collaboration advancing collaboration in digital rights campaigns is a project of aims encouraging internet activists to collaborate to protect liberties online.

• Who are the top LGBT friendly employers in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/who-are-the-top-lgbt-friendly-employers-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 University of Leicester has moved up to 44th position.  Find out the others from the annual Stonewall 100 list.

• Digitised Olympic games resources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/digitised-olympic-games-resources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 IOC’s Olympic Studies Centre is finishing the process of digitising all the publications of the Organising Committees (OCOGs) of past Olympic Games hosted in France.