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• Afrobarometer SDG Scorecard series

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/afrobarometer-sdg-scorecard-series/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 Launched recently by the Afrobarometer public opinion polls,  the scorecard series allows African citizens in individual nations to score their own country on how well they think it...

• Social media in peace mediation: a practical framework

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/social-media-in-peace-mediation-a-practical-framework/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A new paper by UN DPPA Mediation Support Unit and Swiss Peace which explores the role of social media in armed conflict.

• Advertisements from Exponent women’s newspaper

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/advertisements-from-exponent-womens-newspaper/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 A historic database of advertisements from Woman’s Exponent  newspaper from 1872-1914, made available free online from Brigham Young University’s Harold B.

• BBC Rewind: Northern Ireland

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/bbc-rewind-northern-ireland/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 A website from the BBC Rewind provides free access to BBC archive news programmes reflecting life and events in Northern Ireland from 1952 to December 1979.

• INEW Explosive Weapons Monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/inew-explosive-weapons-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 International Network on Explosive Weapons (INEW) recently  launched a new civil society initiative – the Explosive Weapons Monitor  This monthly newsletter for...

• Advertising labels of fruit and vegetables

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/04/advertising-labels-of-fruit-and-vegetables/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2021 From The  Lug and Can Label Collection , which is part of the UC Davis library’s Archives and Special Collections.

• Black literature timeline

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/18/black-literature-timeline/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2021 A resource from the British Library. This literary timeline explores the history of Black literature and writing in Britain through approx.

• Internet access around the world. Who’s connected?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/internet-access-around-the-world-whos-connected/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The ITU provides free access to some data on Internet access worldwide. It gives the figures.

• Cuts and austerity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...

• Government Defence Anti-corruption Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/government-defence-anti-corruption-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption.