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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Discover Macpherson
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/discover-macpherson/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 DiscoverMacpherson.com A free, fully-searchable website which has been developed by Professor Brian Cathcart and Kingston University.
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Photography of the Ukraine war (contains disturbing images)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/photography-of-the-ukraine-war-contains-disturbing-images/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses From University of Berkeley, an exhibition documenting the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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Dr Kathleen Lynn digital collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/dr-kathleen-lynn-digital-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 This Royal College of Physicians of Ireland maintained website provides information and access to digitised materials relating to the career of Dr Kathleen Lynn , nationalist and chief...
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Disability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/11/disability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 11, 2015 Who are the most powerful disabled people in the UK? Find out by consulting the new top 100 power list just compiled by the Shaw Trust.
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BBC rewind
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/bbc-rewind/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 BBC rewind The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC’s news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and...
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How far have we come? Lessons from the 1965 Race relations Act
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/how-far-have-we-come-lessons-from-the-1965-race-relations-act/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 Free access to this collection of essays from the Runnymede Trust.
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Gateway to Global Aging Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/gateway-to-global-aging-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 The Gateway to Global Aging Data : a data and information platform developed by The Program on Global Aging, Health and Policy and The Center for Economic and Social Research which...
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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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Little Data book on Gender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.