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Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/05/5396/
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.
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Illicit Goods Mitigation Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/illicit-goods-mitigation-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 A website created by the Universal Postal Union which provides information on the trade in fakes and counterfeit goods, pharmaceuticals and plants.
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Chilean political songs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/chilean-political-songs/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 For political songs try this recently released Spanish archive.
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Rap music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .
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Obama’s 2008 election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/21/obamas-2008-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2014 President Barack Obama Visual Iconography A digital library from Cornell University which provides free access to campaign materials from the 2008 election campaign of president...
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DCSSA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/dcssa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Database of the Constitutions of Sub-Saharan Africa Useful searchable site created by Holzinger, Kern, and Kromrey in 2013. Includes recent and historic versions in full text.
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State of the Union 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/state-of-the-union-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Read the official White House transcrip t of President Obama’s speech.
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Loneliness: is it a problem in the UK?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/loneliness-is-it-a-problem-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 Early this month the British Red Cross published a report called Escaping the Bubble which from its survey found that 80% of people in the UK (amongst those surveyed) had experienced...
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Women in politics 2017 infographic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/women-in-politics-2017-infographic/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Really great A3 size visual mapping created by the IPU which clearly shows on a worldwide map statistics and ranking on women’s political leadership and parliamentary representation.
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Global attacks on the press
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/global-attacks-on-the-press/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 This week Freedom House Reports released Attacks on the Record – the state of world press freedom 2017/18.