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Conflict Trends Update and Global Peace Index Launch 2021
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/conflict-trends-update-and-global-peace-index-launch-2021/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 The latest report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Find out which nation is graded as the most peaceful. Full methodology provided on the website.
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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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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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Official Gazette Issued by Palestinian National Authority
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/official-gazette-issued-by-palestinian-national-authority/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 Made available by Birzeit university , this website includes the legislation published in the Palestinian Official Gazette since 1994 after the Palestinian National Authority assumed...
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Covid-19 and Labour statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/04/27/covid-19-and-labour-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2020 Worldwide portal launched by ILO It is considering employment and unemployment. Mention is also made on the impact and ability of national suppliers to collect statistics.
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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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Voter behaviour and the Internet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/voter-behaviour-and-the-internet/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 How the internet is changing voter behaviour; see this recent Google blog post: http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-poll-how-web-is-connecting-voters.
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National Archives: Sexuality and gender identity history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/national-archives-sexuality-and-gender-identity-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 A guide on research on gender and sexuality in the UK National Archives. Emphasis is on their holdings of government, legal and police records.
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Dryad Basketry
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/11/dryad-basketry/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2024 https://www.leicestermuseums.
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Tax
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/tax/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 In its most recent report Americans for Tax Fairness referred to a ‘Whopper of a tax Dodge’ alleging that Burger King owes $117 million in tax to the US government.