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• Medieval women’s wills 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/medieval-womens-wills/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023 Medieval women’s wills    The British Library’s Medieval and Renaissance Women project has recently digitised a number of wills of women from the 13th to...

• Migrant Rights Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/migrant-rights-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 Created by the Migrants Rights Initiative , the database maps indicators for protection of migrant rights in 65 nations worldwide. See how your country compares.

• Coronations through history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/coronations-through-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 The National Archives has a mini coronations website which includes images of seals, phots and discussions of government documents.

• Free to view LGBTQIA+ books

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/free-to-view-lgbtqia-books/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 The publisher Taylor and Francis have made a collection of LBGTQIA-related books free to view for pride month.

• Social mobility: the next generation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/social-mobility-the-next-generation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 First of a series of reports by the Sutton Trust on social mobility. This first report looks at secondary school students and is called Lost Potential at 16.

• Congressional Directories Back to the 1800s digitised

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/congressional-directories-back-to-the-1800s-digitised/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) has aigitized all Congressional Directories back to the 1800s.

• Africa: child well-being

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/africa-child-well-being/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 The child well-being country scorecards , issued by Afrobaromater cover responses to questions posed to African citizens in over 30 nations, provide insight into perceptions and...

• The value of Libraries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/the-value-of-libraries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Neil Gaiman writes for the Guardian about the value of libraries for children and adults alike http://www.theguardian.

• Spanish Elections on Sunday

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/17/spanish-elections-on-sunday/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 17, 2015 A look forward at the possible outcome of Spain’s elections on Sunday. http://www.theguardian.

• Information Disorder – a report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/information-disorder/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The Council of Europe recently commissioned this report on the ‘pollution’ of information and  the Internet.