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• Art under attack 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/art-under-attack-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 Censorship and Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2016 .  The annual report b y Freemuse based on 78 countries recorded 1,028 attacks on artists and violations of their rights in 2016.

• Smart cities for all toolkit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/smart-cities-for-all-toolkit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Just launched by G3ict and World  a free toolkit which aims to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities programs worldwide.

• Threatened news outlets web archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/threatened-news-outlets-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 The Freedom of the Press Foundation launched in November 2017 a collection on Archive.

• More than one billion women lack legal protection against domestic sexual violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/more-than-one-billion-women-lack-legal-protection-against-domestic-sexual-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 According to new research from the World Bank   Global and Regional Trends in Women’s legal protection against domestic violence and sexual harassment.

• How many times a day do you check your phone?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-check-your-phone/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 According to the latest  Ofcom communications report people in the UK now check their smartphones, on average, every 12 minutes of the waking day.

• Which degrees give the most financial rewards?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/which-degrees-give-the-most-financial-rewards/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Interesting research from  IFS looking at early career rewards from obtaining a degree.

• Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/brazilian-presidential-transition-2018-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 This web archive has been curated by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, member libraries of the Latin America Libraries of the Northeast Group.

• The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University  which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.

• Striking Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/striking-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 An educational site developed by developed by Dr Sundari Anitha from the University of Lincoln and Professor Ruth Pearson from the University of Leeds in 2013 but worth rediscovering.

• How much does poverty cost the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.