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Indicators for Democratic Parliaments
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/02/indicators-for-democratic-parliaments/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 2, 2024 From the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a platform of 25 indicators that can be used to help assess the capacity and performance...
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We are Lady Parts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/01/we-are-lady-parts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2024 BoB playlist of Channel 4’s comedy about a Muslim female punk band. Shows Islam with all its nuance and humanity. Contains very strong language.
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Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/05/5396/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2024 Playlist of Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes , in which Ian explores British history and culture by considering the national sense of humour.
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National Archives: Sexuality and gender identity history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/national-archives-sexuality-and-gender-identity-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 A guide on research on gender and sexuality in the UK National Archives. Emphasis is on their holdings of government, legal and police records.
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Lowy Institute Global Diplomacy Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/lowy-institute-global-diplomacy-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 Lowy Institute for International Policy produced this interactive map which looks at the global diplomacy networks of 66 nations.
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Portal to the work of intergovernmental bodies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/portal-to-the-work-of-intergovernmental-bodies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 Created by the UN Department General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM), this resource will provide access to documents, agendas, resolutions and conferences for major UN...
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Hansard Corpus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/hansard-corpus/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Website containing nearly every speech in the British Parliament 1803-2005 with some linguistic analysis. Developed by the University of Glasgow. http://www.hansard-corpus.
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Chilean political songs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/chilean-political-songs/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 For political songs try this recently released Spanish archive.
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JFK Assassination records
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/03/jfk-assassination-records/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2017 A large batch of JFK assassination classified document s has been released by the USA government to supplement The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records collection.
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Global Wage report 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/global-wage-report-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Just released, the annual flag ship report from the ILO which has data and supporting essays on trends. The feature this year is the Gender pay gap.