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• Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/23/jeanette-winterson-starbucks-tax-and-libraries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 23, 2012 The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November.

• Urban transformations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/urban-transformations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Get the latest news and research from this ESRC funded network coordinated by the University of Oxford.   Key topics include demography, socio cultural change and governance.

• CILIP children’s book medal winners 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/22/cilip-childrens-book-medal-winners-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2017 The CILIP medals have been announced.  http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2017-winners-announced.php  We have the books in stock in our resources collection, floor 1, yellow zone.

• Field Guide to Fake News

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/field-guide-to-fake-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election.

• Spare Rib

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/08/spare-rib/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2018 Spare Rib was a leading women’s liberation periodicals of the 1970s. You can view the full archive online via the British Library website .

• Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in  the Times Higher  last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.

• Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report  is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.

• Primary Sources: speeches

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1266/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013  Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings.  For speeches, choose spoken word speeches.

• Lantern: Media History

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1276/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Lantern : Media History A free, open access search platform for media history research.  Directors include academics   Eric Hoyt, Carl Hagenmaier, and Wendy Hagenmaier.

• Global Slavery Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/globval-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Global slavery index.   Published this week by the Walk Free Foundation.