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Surveillance and Citizenship Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/surveillance-and-citizenship-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society is an ESRC project based at Cardiff University.
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1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament...
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Living Home Standard launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/living-home-standard-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing...
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A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/a-cross-country-database-of-fiscal-space/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.
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Punk
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/07/punk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2023 A major exhibition about punk, Rage and Revolution is now on at New Walk Museum.
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Awakening of Indian Women webinar
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/awakening-of-indian-women-webinar/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The Awakening of Indian Women is an account of the Indian feminist movement in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/global-cost-of-dementia-set-to-reach-us-1-trillion-by-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 …according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing.
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Living wage level raised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/living-wage-level-raised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 The level of the living wage was raised by 40p an hour this week to £8.25.
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Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/universal-credit-does-anyone-benefit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding tha t it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for...
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Prison Reform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison . Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.