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• Family Matters: How the 20th Century changed family life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/30/family-matters-how-the-20th-century-changed-family-life/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2020 A new online exhibiton from Europeana which includes materials from Europe’s national libraries and archives.

• The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/30/the-chinese-independent-film-archive-cifa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2020 Arts & Humanities Research Council funded research project led by Dr Sabrina Qiong Yu (Newcastle University), with Co-Investigators Professor Chris Berry (King’s College...

• High Pay

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/high-pay/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 On 6th January the High Pay Centre declared    that the median FTSE 100 CEO’s earnings for 2021 had surpassed the median annual wage for a full-time worker in the UK.

• Human Rights reports

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/human-rights-reports/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released . Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations.

• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• UNCTAD COVID-19 Response Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/unctad-covid-19-response-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 United Nations Conference on trade and development has launched a new portal with data on the impact of Covid-19 on manufacturing, trade and foreign direct investment. It has 25 indicators.

• Canadian women directors

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/canadian-women-directors/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 Canadian women film directors database   Compiled by Margaret Fulford, a librarian at the University of Toronto.

• 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.

• Global Abortion Policies Database launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/global-abortion-policies-database-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to this new resource created by UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) which enables...

• Women of Westminster online exhibition

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/women-of-westminster-online-exhibition/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 A new online exhibition available via Google Arts And Culture which has been curated in association with the LSE Library.