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  • 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

    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

    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.

  • Africa: child well-being

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 The child well-being country scorecards , issued by Afrobaromater cover responses to questions posed to African citizens in over 30 nations, provide insight into perceptions and...

  • Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes

    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.

  • The Giant Bible of Mainz

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 The Giant Bible of Mainz Digitized by the Library of Congress   Famous for being one of the last handwritten by a scribe in 1450s.

  • Independent digital news organisations

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Project Oasis Europe   A year-long project to map the extent nature and impact of independent news outlets in over 40 European nations.

  • 70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A  new online exhibition  is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.

  • UK Doughnut – sustainable living standards

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 A new report from Oxfam considers how the UK can achieve decent living standards while remaining environmentally sustainable.

  • 1 million visits to UK Food Banks

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.

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