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Library of Congress digitises more early Presidential Papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/library-of-congress-digitises-more-early-presidential-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 Recently added are: Papers of President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) Papers of President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) Papers of President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Papers...
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Pacific Manuscript Bureau
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/pacific-manuscript-bureau/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 Pacific Manuscript Bureau is useful tool for researchers of ethnography and colonial, social, political history of the region.
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Real-time crime index, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .
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Europeana story dice
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/story-dice/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 Europeana is a cultural heritage site containing images and ephemera from Europe’s major libraries and cultural institutions. Its fun story dice kit can be downloaded and used in teaching.
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More data portals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.
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First Draft News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/first-draft-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 With the shocking news from Belgium this week, we see the media using eye witness and social media resources.
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Greater London Historic Environment Record
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/greater-london-historic-environment-record/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER) https://glher.historicengland.org.
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Vogue Digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/vogue-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture the Vogue Digital Archive will contain over 15,000 images from 30 years of Vogue.
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EU referendum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/eu-referendum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 View Demos visual mapping of the Brexit Twitterosphere f or a stunning visual examination of key players and networks.
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Equality in Higher Education report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...