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• Suffrage exhibition

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/07/suffrage-exhibition/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2018 The Women’s Hall at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives is the first major exhibition about the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS).

• Open Observatory of Network Interference: Tor Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/open-observatory-of-network-interference-tor-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 A free software, Global Observation Network, for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.

• Women are not represented in Local Government

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society   The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.

• Digital Data Gender Divide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet.   This report from the OECD  considers what can be done.

• 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/2019-united-nations-peacekeeping-ministerial-conference/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference on Uniformed Capabilities, Performance and Protection.

• Principled Aid Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/principled-aid-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Launched in March by the Overseas development index , this index ranks bilateral Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors by the extent to which they give aid to countries...

• General News on the Internet Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress .  Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.

• Foreign Aid Explorer (US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.

• Parliamentary Procedure handbook now free online UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/parliamentary-procedure-handbook-now-free-online-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 Now freely available via the UK parliament website: Erskine May’s treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament (25th edition, 2019).

• The Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/the-total-digital-access-to-the-league-of-nations-archives-project-lontad/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 The ultimate aim of this exciting project is to create a digital archive of the League of Nations (1920-1946), the predecessor of the United Nations.