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16 days of action to eliminate violence against women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/16-days-of-action-to-eliminate-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 From the 25th November to 10th December activists across the world are taking part in the 16 days of action against gender violence as part of the International Day for the...
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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.
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Gender pay gap
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/gender-pay-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 20th November 2024 is equal pay day, the day on which it is calculated that British women stop being paid compared to men so effectively there is a gap of over 5 weeks...
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MOnetary ValuE of health at older ages (MOVE) Simulator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/monetary-value-of-health-at-older-ages-move-simulator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Developed by the WHO Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing Unit, the MOVE simulator allows a user to estimate the value of changes in health status for an individual or a population...
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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Globalstat.eu
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/globalstat-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 A useful website project created by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) which deals...
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Does advertising effect consumption?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/does-advertising-effect-consumption/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 Interesting analysis from NHS of a series of surveys.
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United Nations Hand Book 2019 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/united-nations-hand-book-2019-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 Get useful facts and figures on the working of the UN from this annual publication from the government of New Zealand.
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Protests Against Racism Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/protests-against-racism-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The Protests Against Racism Web Archive is new from the Library of Congress. It focuses on preserving websites created in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
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Historical Archives of the European Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/historical-archives-of-the-european-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 The Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU)are held in the historic Villa Salviati in Florence.