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Windrush Passengers 1948 Arrival List
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/windrush-passengers-1948-arrival-list/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Digitised by Goldsmiths University of London new transcription of the Windrush passenger list the original of which is held at The National Archives.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Vacant properties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.
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Victims.Auschwitz.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/victims-auschwitz-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: has created a new tool victims.auschwitz.
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Reading’s Windrush Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/readings-windrush-generation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants is a series of oral-history recordings developed by members of Reading’s local Caribbean community and...
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Carnegie medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/19/carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2025 The longlist for the 2025 Carnegies has been announced. The Carnegies are awards for books written for children and young adults.
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AI and news media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/ai-and-news-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 What does the public in 6 countries think of AI usage in the news? Reuters Institute for Journalism has surveyed awareness and use of generative AI by members of the public in six...
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League of Nations Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/06/league-of-nations-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 6, 2022 The massive project to digitise the entire League of Nations Archives is now complete. Digitisations are now available when you search the UN Archives catalogue https://archives.ungeneva.
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Women, Medellin, Colombia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/women-medellin-colombia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023 Dr Sonja Marzi has launched the website of her project ‘ Futuros urbanos desde las mujeres ’.
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Children and Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/children-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 How much time do British children spend using social media each day? Results from Ofcom which is based on 3-day digital diaries of 186 primary school children and 173 secondary.