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• Historical American Newspapers – a reminder

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/historical-american-newspapers-a-reminder/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 The Chronicling America database from the Library of Congress  provides access to more that 8.1 million newspapers 1836-1922.

• Which employers did not pay the minimum wage?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/which-employers-did-not-pay-the-minimum-wage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 View the list released by the UK government . Their website also covers regulation .

• Global Consumption Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-consumption-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Consumption Database Just launched by The World Bank and International Finance Corp (IFC).  Useful for finding data on how people in developing countries spend their income.

• Income and Equality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/income-and-equality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers  online recent papers  and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data.

• Social Media and Sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter .  You can read the full text on the website.

• Electoral Integrity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/electoral-integrity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Electoral Integrity Project An independent international project headed by  University of Sydney and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

• Find health and social care statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/find-health-and-social-care-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 Sources of Social Statistics: Health Services and Public Health  Where can you find the latest data on a range of UK social welfare and topics?  This useful briefing...

• Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/19/arab-revolt-reporters-without-frontiers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 19, 2011 http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings.

• ecampaigning forum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/23/ecampaigning-forum/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2011 http://www.ecampaigningforum.com/ An annual event where practitioners share advice and expertise on how to use social media in campaigning. The 2011 website http://ecflive.fairsay.

• Hacking the academy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/hacking-the-academy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Access the full text of a new book released by MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library.