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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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War of the Worlds Letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/war-of-the-world-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 A digital library collection from the University of Michigan , The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s...
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Global Social Theory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/26/global-social-theory/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2015 Globalsocialtheory.org is a new, collaborative resource on social theory from a global perspective.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...
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Yoto Carnegie Medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/02/yoto-carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2024 The winners of the 2024 Yoto Carnegies have been announced. See who won: https://yotocarnegies.co.
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People Behind the Headlines: Humanitarian Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/14/people-behind-the-headlines-humanitarian-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2024 The UoL Humanitarian Society has won 2 awards for its monthly newsletter, People Behind the Headlines .
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‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .
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ACLED Conflict Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/acled-conflict-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 The ACLED Conflict Index A new indicator relating to civilian impact of conflict.
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Who gives to Higher Education institutions?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/who-gives-to-higher-education-institutions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Download the latest annual Ross- Cass survey of charitable giving to universities which is carried out by the by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in...
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Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/women-will-take-118-years-to-achieve-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 A ccording to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors.