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Afrobarometer SDG Scorecard series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/afrobarometer-sdg-scorecard-series/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 Launched recently by the Afrobarometer public opinion polls, the scorecard series allows African citizens in individual nations to score their own country on how well they think it...
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European Convention Human Rights anniversary – 67 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/european-convention-human-rights-anniversary-67-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The European Convention on human rights was signed 67 years ago,. See this happy birthday video and blog on its importance from the Rights Information blog.
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Disabilities in Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/disabilities-in-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 Developed by Dr Ngozi Emmanuel, a website to raise awareness about the portrayal of people with disabilities in the media plus a toolkit for filmmakers on the representation of people...
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The Merchant of Venice 1936
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/19/the-merchant-of-venice-1936/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 19, 2023 A new adaptation of the Shakespeare play transported, along with a female Shylock, to London’s East End, 1936.
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Digital archive of avant-garde and modernist magazines (1890-1945)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/digital-archive-of-avant-garde-and-modernist-magazines-1890-1945/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Monoskop maintains a digital archive of printed avant-garde and modernist magazines dating from the late-19th century to the late 1930s, published in Europe and North America.
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Missing Migrants Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/missing-migrants-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Missing Migrants Project from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) documents reported cases of deaths or missing people in international migration since 2014.
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Hebrew manuscripts, Library of Congress
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/hebrew-manuscripts-library-of-congress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Hebraic Manuscripts from the Library of Congress Over 230 full text Hebrew manuscripts have now been made available online.
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Africa Management Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/africa-management-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 Africa UN Knowledge Management Hub is developed by the United Nations Development System in Africa to provide a single place to access to documents on African regional collaboration...
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Festival of the accused
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/festival-of-the-accused/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 Videos or discussion and debate on the history of witch trials from a recent conference held at the British Library in November 2023.
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More data portals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.