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Politwoops and other Twitter-related sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/politwoops-and-other-twitter-related-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians ) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries.
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100 Voices that made the BBC – Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/100-voices-that-made-the-bbc-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 A significant new audio and visual archive of historic election coverage released as part of a research project by the BBC and University of Sussex.
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The World Elite Database project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/the-world-elite-database-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world.
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Stop and Search
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/stop-and-search/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 A new report – a joint project by StopWatch and the Open Society Justice Initiative with the support of the Runnymede trust includes case studies of the harm done to individuals and...
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Education in emergencies and humanitarian crises
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/education-in-emergencies-and-humanitarian-crises/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Education Cluster (UNICEF / Save the Children) A joint initiative from UNICEF and Save the children which aims to assist professionals working on subjects relating to the role and...
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The Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/02/the-journal-of-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2018 A new open-access journal produced by Leicester Learning Institute – The Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (JLTHE) – was launched this week.
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National resource library for gender studies at Gothenburg University
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/national-resource-library-for-gender-studies-at-gothenburg-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 KvinnSam – National resource library for gender studies – at Gothenburg University Library A great resource on women’s equality which is worth revisiting.
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British Council film collection online: British Social History
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/british-council-film-collection-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked.
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Six Day War Declassified Files.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/six-day-war-declassified-files/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 The Israel State Archives has released a number of key documents on the Six Day War also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, which was fought between June 5 and...
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UN and other peacekeeping sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/un-and-other-peacekeeping-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a timeline of past missions.