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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.

• Free to view LGBTQIA+ books

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/free-to-view-lgbtqia-books/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 The publisher Taylor and Francis have made a collection of LBGTQIA-related books free to view for pride month.

• Twitter: 10th anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/twitter-10th-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 See a collection of significant tweets in this short history from Wired magazine.   Read also the Guardian debate on whether you love or hate it.

• State corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/state-corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 Explore the 2022 Transparency International Inde x. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.

• GC wealth website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/gc-wealth-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 A new tool for understanding wealth inequality which has been developed by Stone Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It comprises data and a library of research papers.

• FTSE 100 CEO pay

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/ftse-100-ceo-pay/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 FTSE CEO pay rising rapidly. The High Pay Centre has released its latest data on FTSE 100 executive pay.

• NarcoData

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/narcodata/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 A new data visualization tool created by Mexican digital news site Animal Politico and data journalism platform Poderopedia , which aims to provide a visual mapping of drug cartels...

• Consumer behaviour in the UK (Black Friday/Christmas)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/consumer-behaviour-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 PWC retail outlook has predictions for the UK economy It also has the results of a recent survey on predicted shopping/ consumer behaviour for Black Friday in 2017.

• Window into China

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/window-into-china/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website. It is collecting pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The emphasis is on security and foreign policy.

• Talking Europe

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/talking-europe/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A pan-European project , with independent funders such as VoxPop , which aims to engage citizens in online discussions about politics by using an algorithm to match them with someone from...