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Homelessness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.
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Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/day-to-end-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The United Nations has designated 2nd November as a day against impunity for crimes against journalists.
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Economics of the Oscars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/economics-of-the-oscars/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 As the winners of the Academy awards 2018 have been announced, here are some social science sites for locating materials on the economics of the Oscars.
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Bishopsgate Institute Library and Archive: new online exhibitions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/bishopsgate-institute-library-and-archive-new-online-exhibitions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Since 2010 the London based Bishopsgate Institute has been digitizing some of its major archival collections.
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Flooding
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/flooding/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods,...
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Support for students with ADHD
https://le.ac.uk/accessability/support/adhd-support
Support for students with ADHD at University of Leicester
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Sources of funding for oral history projects
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/community-resources/funding
Find out the best ways to source funding for your oral history project from the East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book
Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his book Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire which tells the story of the first ‘All-India’ cricket team to go...
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Schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/14-refugee-camp
Appeal for more schools to become ‘Schools of Sanctuary’. Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.
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University response to EHRC racial harassment report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/23-university-response-to-ehrc-racial-harassment-report
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has today published a report examining racial harassment in higher education. The report makes for difficult reading for the higher education sector and the EHRC have called for a strong individual and collective response.