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Poverty in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/poverty-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation annual monitoring report – 20% of working age adults without children are in poverty.
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Digital divide 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/digital-divide-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Latest report from the ITU on the Information societ y gives data on the level of ICT development in 166 economies worldwide. ICT -Eye has more free telecommunications statistics.
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How do recent graduates communicate?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/how-do-recent-graduates-communicate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Does the transition from college to the workplace effect how you communicate? This question was considered in a recent qualitative study by Google staff at the 48th Hawaii...
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1929 election cartoons on women voters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/1929-election-cartoons-on-women-voters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 University of Kent archive has fascinating examples of cartoons from newspapers on how women will vote! Posted in Politics , Sociology | Tagged Democracy , Feminism , Politics ,...
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Where do Graduates Move to?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/where-do-graduates-move-to/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Interesting report from the Centre for Cities which argues that there is a brain drain with UK graduates migrating towards London and other larger cities.
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NATO Encyclopedia 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/nato-encyclopedia-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Useful reference tool on membership and policies: includes statistics. Also worth exploring the online library has treaties and reports from 1949 onwards.
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NewseumED.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/newseumed-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US newspaper front pages from events of historical and educational significance, from 9/11 to the Women’s March and School Walkout to firsts in politics.
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Rap music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .
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Obama’s 2008 election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/21/obamas-2008-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2014 President Barack Obama Visual Iconography A digital library from Cornell University which provides free access to campaign materials from the 2008 election campaign of president...
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Whitehall Monitor 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/whitehall-monitor-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The Institute for Government has released this fascinating annual report on the size and structure of UK government.