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Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/black-history-timelines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and...
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quickQuote
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/quickquote/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 A new open source tool from the Times which has been designed to allow journalists to upload, search and get transcriptions of quotes from online videos which they can then...
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Disability podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/disability-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 Professor Colin Blackmore has created a series of podcasts with British disability activists. The latest, with Professor Colin Barnes, is on the sociology of disability.
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Congressional Directories, 19th and 20th centuries
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/congressional-directories-19th-and-20th-centuries/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 Congressional Directory from the 19th and 20th centuries. Are being digitised by USA GPO. The first release includes Directories from 1869–1888, as well as 1993.
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Decolonising Sexualities Network
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/decolonising-sexualities-network/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 Decolonizing Sexualities Network A transnational collective which provides information on its website about its membership activity and events.
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MDB Reform Accelerator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/mdb-reform-accelerator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 MDB Reform Accelerator Multilateral Development Banks, or MDBs, are supranational institutions set up by sovereign states, which are their shareholders.
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Cities in Fiction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/12/cities-in-fiction/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2024 Cities in Fiction A project which is creating an online databases of cities mentioned in fiction. There is an emphasis on India. Browse to get an alphabetical list.
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Australian poll on same–sex marriage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/20/australian-poll-on-same-sex-marriage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2017 Official results from the Australian Bureau of statistics of the postal survey. Explanation of the process. And commentary from the Sydney Morning Herald news.
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Ukraine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/ukraine-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Think Tank reports on the invasion of Ukraine – Consilium (europa.eu) Useful bibliography with annotations and links on recent European think tanks’ publications about the conflict.
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The Examination
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/the-examination/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 The Examination, A non-profit news site which has received financial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Pulitzer Center and aims to provide access to...