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• Twitter and racism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/twitter-and-racism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 Is Twitter full of racist abuse? Read the new report from Demos on anti-social media: http://www.demos.co.

• Global Governance Monitor Tool

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/global-governance-monitor-tool/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Global Governance Monitor Tool from the Council on Foreign Relations. …aims to monitor how the international community is doing in dealing with security threats.

• Elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/1633/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Those interested in elections might like the: Manifesto Research Group/Comparative Manifestos Project (MRG/CMP) Database  a quantitative database maintained by...

• Human rights resolutions portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/07/human-rights-resolutions-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2014 Human rights resolutions portal Created by the Universal Rights Group. The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system.

• Standards of conduct in banking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/standards-of-conduct-in-banking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Read the recent  Financial Conduct Authority reports   to find out which 5 banks it fined for  failing to control business practices in their  foreign...

• The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Try these recommended sources: BBC radio and TV archive footage     1948-1990 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg  has 250 short videos on life in divided Berlin Chronicle of...

• Bank of England release secret minutes on the financial crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/09/bank-of-england-release-secret-minutes-on-the-financial-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 9, 2015 What did the bank know about the impending financial crisis in May and June 2007? Find out from contemporary minutes just released on the Bank of England website.

• 45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/45-of-british-adults-display-antisemitic-attitudes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 According to the  Annual Antisemitism Barometer  issued by Campaign against Antisemitism, ‘45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes’.

• 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 .

• Which universities have the best academic reputation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/which-universities-have-the-best-academic-reputation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015   An interesting new white paper which reviews the results from Thomson Reuters Academic Reputation Surveys 2010-2014.