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Historical Newspaper Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Daily Mail 1896-2004, the Independent 1986-2012 and Punch 1841-1992.
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How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Historical Newspaper Archives: Finance and Economics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives-finance-and-economics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Economist 1843-2011 and the Financial Times 1888-2010.
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Accountable Journalism site launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/accountable-journalism-site-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 New from the The Ethical Journalism Network and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute , University of Missouri.
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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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Historic photographs: the changing workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/2387/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online.
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3 open-access books about Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/3-open-access-books-about-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 How the World Changed Social Media: Download free from http://bit.ly/24AUbKH Social Media in an English Village: Download free from http://bit.