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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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Medieval and Renaissance Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/medieval-and-renaissance-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Medieval and Renaissance Women: charters and rolls The British Library blog has a full list of digitised charters and rolls from their medieval collections.
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GC wealth website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/gc-wealth-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 A new tool for understanding wealth inequality which has been developed by Stone Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It comprises data and a library of research papers.
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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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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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Independent digital news organisations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/independent-digital-news-organisations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Project Oasis Europe A year-long project to map the extent nature and impact of independent news outlets in over 40 European nations.
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UK Doughnut – sustainable living standards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/uk-doughnut-sustainable-living-standards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 A new report from Oxfam considers how the UK can achieve decent living standards while remaining environmentally sustainable.
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1 million visits to UK Food Banks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.
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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...