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Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/armed-conflict-location-event-data-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 ACLED has now expanded real-time coverage to all of Europe, extending the dataset to 37 new countries and territories.
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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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State of Bitcoin 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/state-of-bitcoin-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 The latest report from Coin Desk stated that in 2014 Bloomberg regarded Bitcoin as the worst performing currency.
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UK Education select committee uses Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/uk-education-select-committee-uses-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.
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Growth Commission
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/growth-commission/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 The London School of Economics has set up a Growth Commission which aims to provide contributions to the formulation and implementation of a long-term growth strategy the UK.
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India Real Time
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/india-real-time/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters.
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Surveys: displaced people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/surveys-displaced-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement.
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Digital Verification Corps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/digital-verification-corps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 The Digital Verification Corps is a network of volunteers from 6 universities worldwide trained to verify social media videos and photos of potential human rights violations.
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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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UNESCO open-access repository
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/unesco-open-access-repository/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 Now officially launched, the url for the UNESCO open access repository is : http://en.unesco.