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• 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...

• Benjamin Franklin Papers now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/benjamin-franklin-papers-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 The Library of Congress have now made available online the papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin .

• A healthy US election

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/a-healthy-us-election/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election A joint project to bring together resources about the conduct of the US 2020 presidential elections includes report cards and data on...

• How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...

• Advertising on Social Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/advertising-on-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 As a move to greater transparency Facebook has  launche d this searchable database about political adverts appearing on Facebook and who is funding them.

• For South Asian Heritage Month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/for-south-asian-heritage-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 CrossAsia Portal The portal has been set up by the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• Quality of Life in the EU

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.

• Congressional Record for the 1980s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/congressional-record-for-the-1980s/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Now available online via GOV Info   the bound volumes from volume 127 (1981) to volume 147 (2001).

• American Federal reserve launch Facebook page

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/american-federal-reserve-launch-facebook-page/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised.