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Yemen Conflict Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/yemen-conflict-observatory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Yemen Conflict Observatory A new site created by ACLED and the Yemen Data project. This site offers up to date data dashboards and mappings of war and violence in Yemen.
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‘More than 40% of girls are sexting’ (NSPCC)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/more-than-40-of-girls-are-sexting-nspcc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Sexting is common amongst girls, according to a new report from the NSPCC .
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Art under attack 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/art-under-attack-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 Censorship and Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2016 . The annual report b y Freemuse based on 78 countries recorded 1,028 attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2016.
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More than one billion women lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/more-than-one-billion-women-lack-legal-protection-against-domestic-sexual-violence/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 According to new research from the World Bank Global and Regional Trends in Women’s legal protection against domestic violence and sexual harassment.
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Gender, race and money in politics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/gender-race-and-money-in-politics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 The Center for Responsive Politics has just released a new database which enables researchers to explore the interaction between gender and race in US campaign funding.
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FTSE 100 CEOs remuneration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/10/ftse-100-ceos-remuneration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2020 FTSE 100 CEOs only need to work until Monday 6 January 2020 in order to make the same amount of money that the typical full-time employee does in the entire year.
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OutRage! new Google Arts and Culture exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/outrage-new-google-arts-and-culture-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 OutRage! was a radical, non-violent, direct action LGBT human rights group that fought against homophobia in the State, the Church and society in general.
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Presidential inaugurations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.
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Getty Images: Black History and Culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/getty-images-black-history-and-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Black History and Culture Collection – Getty Images Getty images is developing a database relating to photographic images of the black experience in the USA...
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Radio Times Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/radio-times-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 Radio Times Archive Free access to all pre war editions from 1936-1938. These are fascinating for social historians as they include all the original TV listings.