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American Federal reserve launch Facebook page
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/american-federal-reserve-launch-facebook-page/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised.
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Everyday sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.
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Presidential transition resources.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/presidential-transition-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 The Newseum front page archives is creating a web archive of worldwide newspaper front page images for election day so you can browse images of the headlines from hundreds of...
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Consumer data research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/09/consumer-data-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 9, 2018 A new book published by UCL Press, looks at big data collected by customer-facing organisations – such as store loyalty card transactions, smart travel tickets, or smart energy meter...
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Global Social Theory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/global-social-theory-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 This free website provides a useful starting point for students of social theory .
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Striking Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/striking-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 An educational site developed by developed by Dr Sundari Anitha from the University of Lincoln and Professor Ruth Pearson from the University of Leeds in 2013 but worth rediscovering.
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Women and the Internet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/women-and-the-internet/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Tim Berners–Lee open letter why the Internet is not working for women and girls.
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OutRage! new Google Arts and Culture exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/outrage-new-google-arts-and-culture-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 OutRage! was a radical, non-violent, direct action LGBT human rights group that fought against homophobia in the State, the Church and society in general.
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History of the BBC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/history-of-the-bbc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 ‘100 Voices that made the BBC’ series – ‘Entertaining the Nation’. Historical site from the BBC which is based on oral histories. It is curated by Dr.
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Under reporting of missing and murdered indigenous women (Canada and US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/under-reporting-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-canada-and-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The MMIW Database logs cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people in Canada and the United States, from 1900 to the present.