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• 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.

• Medieval and Renaissance Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/medieval-and-renaissance-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Medieval and Renaissance Women: charters and rolls   The British Library blog has a full list of digitised charters and rolls from their medieval collections.

• First folios

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/first-folios/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 First folios compared Launched by AM, First Folios Compared was built in 2023 in order to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication which in 1623 brought together 36 of...

• GC wealth website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/gc-wealth-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 A new tool for understanding wealth inequality which has been developed by Stone Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It comprises data and a library of research papers.

• 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.

• State of Global Peace 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/state-of-global-peace-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 The Institute of Economics and Peace has just released its latest annual report ranking nations and regions in terms of peacefulness.

• Black History Month exhibition

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/black-history-month-exhibition/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 An online exhibtion from theFeminist Library: WE ARE HERE: How Black Women  have been the backbone to radical social movements.

• African American Members of the U.S.Congress, 1870-2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/african-american-members-of-the-u-s-congress-1870-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 The latest Congressional research service report now has updated data. It incudes total numbers, data on each congress and party affiliations.

• #WomanInHistory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/womaninhistory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 Launched by author Kate Mosse as a   a global campaign to nominate important women from any period of history who have made a major contribution but may now be less well known.

• 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.