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• Global Social Theory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/26/global-social-theory/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2015 Globalsocialtheory.org is a new, collaborative resource on social theory from a global perspective.

• New Databases on Economic Liberty and Human Development

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/new-databases-on-economic-liberty-and-human-development/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 Prof.

• American women making history and culture

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/6127/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 The American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982  (“American Women”) collection on the internet archive includes Pacifica Radio Archives’ holdings from the five...

• Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/06/13/generative-ai-and-jobs-a-refined-global-index-of-occupational-exposure/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 13, 2025 This ILO Working Paper updates an earlier 2023 edition. It examines potential job threats posed by AI in different sectors using a methodology provided.

• Facebook launches Notify News App

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.

• Is your bank under stress?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.

• Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .

• ‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.

• World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.