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How to improve social mobility in higher education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/how-to-improve-social-mobility-in-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 The report published this week by an advisory group of Universities UK has recommendations which include improving advice given to students and enhancing school/university collaborations.
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Sexual harassment and abuse in Colleges
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/10/sexual-harassment-and-abuse-in-colleges/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2020 Office for Students will intervene if colleges do not have robust procedures for dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
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Trump Twitter archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/trump-twitter-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 Trump Twitter archive has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.
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Women in Congress 1917 – 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/women-in-congress-1917-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The latest edition of this factual reference book from the US Government includes total numbers and names of women in Congress and their roles.
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Online Nation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/online-nation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 Ofcom’s annual Online Nation report and interactive dataset .
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British Library world newspaper data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/british-library-world-newspaper-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Free to download. Get the full title list with dates of coverage and see a map visualizing the areas of the world they cover.
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DWL celebrates LGBT+ History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/10/dwl-celebrates-lgbt-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2023 The University Library is displaying 6 flags during LGBT+ History Month.
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Medieval and Renaissance Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/medieval-and-renaissance-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Medieval and Renaissance Women: charters and rolls The British Library blog has a full list of digitised charters and rolls from their medieval collections.
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Obama’s 2008 election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/21/obamas-2008-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2014 President Barack Obama Visual Iconography A digital library from Cornell University which provides free access to campaign materials from the 2008 election campaign of president...
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DCSSA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/dcssa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Database of the Constitutions of Sub-Saharan Africa Useful searchable site created by Holzinger, Kern, and Kromrey in 2013. Includes recent and historic versions in full text.