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National AIDS Memorial Digital collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/national-aids-memorial-digital-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 Recently released by the Library of Congress this website provides images of the quilt created to commemorate American lives lost as well as thousands of digital letters and photos...
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Radio: BBC sound effects database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/radio-bbc-sound-effects-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 Explore BBC sound effects database as used in radio broadcasts. Sounds are arranged thematically and each record includes technical and copyright/ licensing conditions.
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Women in Diplomacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/women-in-diplomacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 A London School of Economics and Political Science project which aims to discuss the under-representation of women worldwide in senior diplomatic positions.
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Brookings Institution regulatory tracker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/28/brookings-institution-regulatory-tracker/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2025 The regulatory tracker enables researchers to track regulatory changes in the second Trump administration. It is possible to sign up to regular email newsletters.
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MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-2/
6. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript. A decorated border and rubrics helped the reader to navigate the book, marking the start of a new section of text. (Red ink was often used for this purpose).
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Lily Skelton
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/lily_skelton/
UK Disability History Month 2022: The Mosaic Oral History Collection Posted by Lily Skelton in Library and Learning Services on November 18, 2022 16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month, an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of...
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Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/black-history-timelines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and...
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Disability podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/disability-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 Professor Colin Blackmore has created a series of podcasts with British disability activists. The latest, with Professor Colin Barnes, is on the sociology of disability.
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US caselaw
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/us-caselaw/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 Caselaw Access Project The Caselaw Access Project is based on the holdings of Harvard Law School. Its aim is to provide free public access all published U.S. court decisions.
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Congressional Directories, 19th and 20th centuries
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/congressional-directories-19th-and-20th-centuries/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 Congressional Directory from the 19th and 20th centuries. Are being digitised by USA GPO. The first release includes Directories from 1869–1888, as well as 1993.