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• Twitter: 10th anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/twitter-10th-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 See a collection of significant tweets in this short history from Wired magazine.   Read also the Guardian debate on whether you love or hate it.

• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 IDAHOT 2016 was celebrated on May 17 th .  Find out why this day was chosen and why it continues to be needed with this blog posting from the LSE.

• Open Observatory of Network Interference: Tor Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/open-observatory-of-network-interference-tor-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 A free software, Global Observation Network, for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.

• Our World in Data: Migration Explorer 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/our-world-in-data-migration-explorer/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers in a new visual dashboard created by Our World in Data using statistics derived from  United Nations Department...

• Boots Archive timeline

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/boots-archive-timeline/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 Chemist store Boots has just released a fascinating timeline of images about its company history which economic historians may find useful.

• Stonewall 50th commemoration web archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/stonewall-50th-commemoration-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Just launched by Columbia University, a searchable web archive of 50 th anniversary commemorations of the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall uprising a key event in LGBT history.

• Open Secrets.org

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics.  Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .

• India Real Time

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/india-real-time/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters.

• Global slavery index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

• UK elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/uk-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 ‘Only 16% of 18-24 year olds certain to vote’ One of the findings from the latest annual audit of UK political engagement published by the Hansard Society.