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• 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.

• Harry Potter: a history of Magic launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/3453/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Based on the popular British Library exhibition and a new online exhibition from Google Arts and Culture.   It includes the early manuscripts and sketches of author J.K.

• Number of fact-checking sites worldwide increasing rapidly

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/number-of-fact-checking-sites-worldwide-increasing-rapidly/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Duke Reporters Lab .  They found that in 2018 the number has increased by 31 percent.

• Digital Terrorism and Hate online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new report from the Simon Wiesenthal center finds the rise of alt-tech far-right digital websites and platforms.

• Sexual harassment in the workplace

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 “Urgent action” is needed to better protect victims of sexual harassment in the workplace a fter shocking incidents were reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

• Asian Development Outlook 2018

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/asian-development-outlook-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 The Asian Development Bank has just released its latest annual review which has a special focus on the impact of technology upon employment and jobs in the region.

• Irish Independence film collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/irish-independence-film-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 Free access via the Irish Film Institute player to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the...

• First global report on smuggling of migrants

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/first-global-report-on-smuggling-of-migrants/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 Just released by UNODC, the first report on the nature and impact of the smuggling of migrants . It includes infographics and data on numbers and routes plus profiles.

• How much fake news is there?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.