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Economic Wellbeing Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/economic-wellbeing-explorer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry.
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Surveillance Industry Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry.
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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.
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ILGA World Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/ilga-world-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 A resource maintained by ILGA World – The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
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Soldier magazine archive online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/soldier-magazine-archive-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier , has been digitised and is now available online for free.
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Advertising on Social Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/advertising-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 As a move to greater transparency Facebook has launche d this searchable database about political adverts appearing on Facebook and who is funding them.
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Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/atlas-of-mortality-and-economic-losses-from-weather-climate-and-water-extremes-1970-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019 ) A rich source of data published recently by the World Meteorological...
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The lost Banksy interview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/22/the-lost-banksy-interview/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2023 A new episode of The Bansky Story, including a newly-discovered interview with Banksy, is now available on our playlist.
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Pepys: teaching resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/22/pepys-teaching-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 22, 2024 Professor Kate Loveman (School of Arts, University of Leicester) has created a new collection of educational resources for key stage 1 & 2 about Samuel Pepys and his times.
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Crimes against journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/crimes-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 November 2 nd was the international day to end impunity about crimes against journalists .