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• The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University  which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.

• Richard Cobden

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/richard-cobden/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 Richard Cobden lette rs Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was a leading Victorian political stateman well known for his involvement in free trade debates and the anti-corn league.

• New data visualisation site from the Office for National Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/new-data-visualisation-site-from-the-office-for-national-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now in Beta version  Visual.ONS http://visual.ons.gov.uk/ which aims to provide new visually interesting and accessible displays of official statistics.

• Queer Zine Archive Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/queer-zine-archive-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Queer Zine Archive Project – QZAP Originally founded by Milo Miller and Chris Wilde in Milwaukee.

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• American Federation of Labor records now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/american-federation-of-labor-records-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 Available to researchers from the Library of Congress Website .

• Academic Freedom Index launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/academic-freedom-index-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin.

• 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.

• Rise Up: digital archive of Canadian Feminism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/rise-up-digital-archive-of-canadian-feminism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Covering the period 1970-1990.   This resource from a women’s collective has a wealth of information.

• Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/research-data-journal-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data.