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• Crisis Commons

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/04/04/crisis-commons/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2011 http://crisiscommons.org/about/ Crisis Commons is a network of individuals and community groups who explore how new technology can help with communication during humanitarian crises.

• World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/world-revenue-longitudinal-database-world/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s.

• The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

• Peace

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/02/peace/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2012 The Peace Accords Matrix from the  Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.

• Increasing domestic violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/increasing-domestic-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Two shocking reports published this week.

• China 70th anniversary of Communist rule

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/04/china-70th-anniversary-of-communist-rule/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2019 The official website  in China has an English language section which discusses the anniversary Official news coverage News coverage BBC  Guardian newspaper CNN graphics Wall...

• Measuring Peace in the Media 2011

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide.

• Refugees Deeply

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/refugees-deeply/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 Independent digital media journalism site which aims to cover the refugee crisis  indepth. Other independent journalism sites on this topic which are worth checking.

• Prison Reform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016   This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison .  Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.

• Digital Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/digital-caricatures-of-the-franco-prussian-war-and-the-paris-commune-1870-71/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 Recently made available by the Cambridge digital library at Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.