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• Locating London’s past

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/locating-londons-past/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Locating London’s past This revamped website enables searching of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London.

• Britain at work

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/britain-at-work/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The Britain at Work: Voices from the Workplace 1945-1995 project  interviewed people from a diverse range of backgrounds about their experience of work including those who are...

• The Barnardo’s Oral History project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/the-barnardos-oral-history-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 This project includes : The personal experience of Vice President, Baroness Floella Benjamin who came to Britain from Trinidad and Tobago as a small child A...

• ‘An ordinary life’: The King’s Fund’s work on services for disabled people

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/an-ordinary-life-the-kings-funds-work-on-services-for-disabled-people/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 An online exhibition created by the Kings Fund Library for disability history month. The source explores aspects of the organisation’s work with and for disabled people.

• Civil Rights cold case portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/civil-rights-cold-case-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA.

• Facebook launches Notify News App

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.

• Is your bank under stress?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.

• Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .

• ‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.