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• Mapping Early American Elections Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/mapping-early-american-elections-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 Just launched this major project funded by National Endowment for the Humanities which will provide free access to visualisations on a state level of how Americans voted for their...

• February is LGBT History Month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/february-if-lgbt-history-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 To celebrate the arrival LGBT History Month view this collection on which features primary source documents and teaching materials relating to the impact of the 1969 Stonewall...

• International Women’s Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/08/international-womens-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2018 International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8 th March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. This year the theme is Press for Progress.

• Netflix research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.

• Global data hub on human trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/global-data-hub-on-human-trafficking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative is the first global data hub on human trafficking publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world.

• Press freedom is declining

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...

• LGBTI inclusion index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/lgbti-inclusion-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 United Nations Development Programme has just devised the first indicators on how to measure LGBTI inclusion.

• Cuban Radionovelas

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/cuban-radionovelas/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 Currently being digitised by Tulane University library this collection of original Spanish-language radio soap operas — better known as radionovelas produced by Cuban Emigres in Miami...

• African women own fewer assets than men

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/african-women-own-fewer-assets-than-men/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Latest Afrobarometer finding on opinion polls conducted in 34 African nations 2016-18.  It also covers attitudes towards household decision making.

• BC Gay and Lesbian archives now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/15/bc-gay-and-lesbian-archives-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2019 A major new LGBT digital collection from British Colombia and the city of Vancouver. The BC Gay and Lesbian Archives was established in 1976 and developed and maintained by Ron Dutton .