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BBC rewind
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/bbc-rewind/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 BBC rewind The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC’s news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and...
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Indian women in World War II
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/12/16/indian-women-in-world-war-ii/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2022 The Indian Women and War (1939-1945) project was created by Believe in Me CIC with funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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UK Archives: Empire Windrush resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources.
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UoL Historian wins double book prize
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/uol-historian-wins-double-book-prize/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical...
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Racism and misogyny across public services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/racism-and-misogyny-across-public-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 Public Harms: Racism and Misogyny across Public Services A report from The Fawcett Society and The Black Equity organization highlights the racism against and the invisibility of...
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Children and happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/children-and-happiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 More children in the UK are unhappy with their lives according to the latest annual report from the Children’s Society which measures happiness and wellbeing in over 2,000...
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Press freedom is declining
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...
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UK elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/uk-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 ‘Only 16% of 18-24 year olds certain to vote’ One of the findings from the latest annual audit of UK political engagement published by the Hansard Society.
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Trump’s inauguration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/trumps-inauguration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website.
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New suffrage history podcast
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/new-suffrage-history-podcast/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 From the LSE: From People’s Dissent to Royal Assent: Sylvia Pankhurst and the struggle for the vote.