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Trump’s inauguration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/trumps-inauguration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website.
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World Wide Income Inequality Database – updated
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/world-wide-income-inequality-database-updated/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Latest release 2017 WIID3.
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Women Peace and Security Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/women-peace-and-security-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 Launched in 2017 by Georgetown University in conjunction with Peace Research Institute (PRIO)— this free tool ranks 153 countries on both peace and security—and women’s...
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Theresa May’s Brexit speech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/theresa-mays-brexit-speech/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 A transcript of Theresa may’s speech of 17th January is available at https://www.gov.
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We need more women in science.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/we-need-more-women-in-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated on 11 February.
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Suffrage exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/07/suffrage-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2018 The Women’s Hall at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives is the first major exhibition about the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS).
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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.
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Digital Data Gender Divide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. This report from the OECD considers what can be done.
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Parliamentary Procedure handbook now free online UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/parliamentary-procedure-handbook-now-free-online-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 Now freely available via the UK parliament website: Erskine May’s treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament (25th edition, 2019).
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The Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/the-total-digital-access-to-the-league-of-nations-archives-project-lontad/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 The ultimate aim of this exciting project is to create a digital archive of the League of Nations (1920-1946), the predecessor of the United Nations.