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UK Elections: voter’s regret
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/15/uk-elections-voters-regret/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2015 Voter’s regret An interesting fact has been the surge in LibDem membership applications since the election . The Conversation discusses the psychology of voter regret.
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American race riots
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/american-race-riots/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 Newsmuseum has created a teaching and learning site which has archived front pages of newspaper coverage of events, plus lesson plans and links to historical resources on early...
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Where is the worst place to be a journalist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/where-is-the-worst-place-to-be-a-journalist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 According to the 2016 Index produced annually by The Committee to Protect Journalists Somalia tops the rankings.
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Who trusts advertising ?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/who-trusts-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Free to download from the Nielsen site a report on global trust in advertising. It considers whether people trust traditional media more than the internet online and mobile.
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Women of Westminster online exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/women-of-westminster-online-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 A new online exhibition available via Google Arts And Culture which has been curated in association with the LSE Library.
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Parliamentary rules database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.
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Windrush Passengers 1948 Arrival List
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/windrush-passengers-1948-arrival-list/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Digitised by Goldsmiths University of London new transcription of the Windrush passenger list the original of which is held at The National Archives.