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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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The Global Conflict Risk Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/the-global-conflict-risk-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This useful free source has been developed by the Joint Research Centre in cooperation with the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation Instruments Division...
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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Human rights day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/human-rights-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The United Nations observance of this day occurs every 10 th December. The official website has related resolutions and news for 2018.
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Citizen journalism websites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/citizen-journalism-websites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Guardian Witness https://witness.guardian.co.uk/ A new site for citizens to share news photos and views.
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Syria digital security monitoring project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/syria-digital-security-monitoring-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 http://syria.secdev.com/ Maintained by the SecDev Foundation, a Canadian not-for-profit organization. It aims to provide tools to encourage digital openness in Syria.
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Police.uk
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/11/police-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 11, 2011 http://www.police.uk/ The much hyped crimes maps of the UK website which was launched this week.
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British Social Attitudes survey released
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/12/british-social-attitudes-survey-released/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2011 http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-28th-report Major social attitudes study released on the net by National Centre for Social Research. Conducted annually since 1983.
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Syria
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/syria/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://www.arableagueonline.org/ The official website of the Arab League has details on its English language version about its involvement in Syria.
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Anti-racism sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/anti-racism-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Measuring anti-Muslim Attacks Project, (MAMA Project): http://tellmamauk.