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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Social Justice Day 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/social-justice-day-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 20th February was World Social Justice day the 2017 Theme was “Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work A key document is the adoption in 2008 by the ILO of...

• 2017 Atlas of Sustainable development goals

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/2017-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Just released by the World Bank a visual mapping of progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development goals which include: ending poverty, good health, access to education, sustainable cities.

• Is your press free?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders.   Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.

• How did UK newspapers report the 2016 EU referendum campaigns?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/how-did-uk-newspapers-report-the-2016-eu-referendum-campaigns/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Download the latest fascinating research from Kings College London.   It is the first complete survey of over 351,000 articles from news outlets published over a 20-week period.

• Never mind the ballots

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/never-mind-the-ballots/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20 th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 –...

• Suffrage 100 resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/suffrage-100-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Vote 100 website.

• The Changing Wealth of Nations 1995-2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/the-changing-wealth-of-nations-1995-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 This book from the World Bank tracks the wealth of 141 countries between 1995 and 2014.