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The most dangerous places for a journalist
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/07/the-most-dangerous-places-for-a-journalist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the Guardian Datablog visualisation graphic.
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Development studies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/development-studies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 Two major annual reports released recently. African Human Development report 2016 focuses upon women’s empowerment. The Arab Human Development report focuses upon Youth.
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Suffrage 100 resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/suffrage-100-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Vote 100 website.
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Women in data science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/women-in-data-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 A resource from Stanford University. The Women in Data Science initiative was launched in 2018.
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UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteerism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/unv-knowledge-portal-on-volunteerism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 The UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteering is a great new resource it includes a volunteering database containing country laws, policies, statistical measurement.
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1979 elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/1979-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Rewind to the 1979 elections #79 rewind from the Open University is tweeting stories from the 1979 campaign to examine how they correspond with current issues.
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Women in Congress, 1917-2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/women-in-congress-1917-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Free access to this reference book from the Library of Congress.
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World Peace Index 2017 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/world-peace-index-2017-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 Find out which is the world’s most peaceful country using the latest annual index from Visions of Humanity. It also summaries worldwide and regional trends.
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Short story short-list
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/05/01/short-story-short-list/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on May 1, 2014 Dr Jonathan Taylor’s Kontakte and Other Stories has been short-listed for the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection 2014 and The Leicester Shindig Open-Mic Poetry Evenings which Jonathan, as...
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Open-access books on gender and sexuality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/5242/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the six large American university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance aims to offer...