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Year in Twitter 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/year-in-twitter-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 Official website from Twitter where you can trace key trends and the most influential stories and individuals.
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Information Disorder – a report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/information-disorder/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The Council of Europe recently commissioned this report on the ‘pollution’ of information and the Internet.
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Africa UN Data for Development Platform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/18/africa-un-data-for-development-platform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2021 A new official gateway to explore data at country, sub-regional and regional levels on SDGs, Agenda 2063 and key socio-economic indicators for Africa.
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#NoToHate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/notohate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 UN Digital Portal against Hate Speech This new portal provides definitions of what constitutes hate crime and free access to UN resources including: UN Strategy and Plan of Action...
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Coronations through history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/coronations-through-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 The National Archives has a mini coronations website which includes images of seals, phots and discussions of government documents.
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Free to view LGBTQIA+ books
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/free-to-view-lgbtqia-books/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 The publisher Taylor and Francis have made a collection of LBGTQIA-related books free to view for pride month.
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Africa: child well-being
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/africa-child-well-being/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 The child well-being country scorecards , issued by Afrobaromater cover responses to questions posed to African citizens in over 30 nations, provide insight into perceptions and...
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State of Global Peace 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/state-of-global-peace-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 The Institute of Economics and Peace has just released its latest annual report ranking nations and regions in terms of peacefulness.
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Living Black at University
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/07/living-black-at-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2022 UNITE union reveals Black students experiences with university housing 54% of Black students surveyed reported having been the victim of some form of racism in their...
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Transcript: the diaries of Anne Lister
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/14/transcript-the-diaries-of-anne-lister/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2022 Calderdale, West Yorkshire Archive Service has provided a further transcript of the diaries of Anne Lister.