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• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• How diverse are UK journalists?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/how-diverse-are-uk-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute.  It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015.

• How much does poverty cost the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.

• UK European Union Referendum web archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/uk-european-union-referendum-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A web archive created by UCLA and hosted by Archive.

• Public Finances – A Historic Overview

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/public-finances-a-historic-overview/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 H elpful new paper from the House of Commons Library: Briefing Paper 8265 by Philip Brien and Matthew Keep, published in March 2018 It covers i ncome and spending from...

• Trade in services

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/trade-in-services/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 OECD WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS) dataset is now available .

• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2018

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Just released from the United Nations development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the latest edition of this index with an online data...

• ONS sexual orientation data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/3875/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 Released this week from the UK Office of National Statistics,  ONS sexual orientation data.

• Longer lives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.

• Richard Cobden

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/richard-cobden/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 Richard Cobden lette rs Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was a leading Victorian political stateman well known for his involvement in free trade debates and the anti-corn league.