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• Women Parliamentarians suffer sexism, harassment and violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/women-parliamentarians-suffer-sexism-harassment-and-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs is widespread worldwide.

• #METoo one year on: what has changed?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/metoo-one-year-on-what-has-changed/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 This week the Fawcett Society has issued a report on changing attitudes in the wake of the #MeToo movement This has shown increasing awareness.

• UN envoy says austerity has inflicted misery on UK citizens 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/un-envoy-says-austerity-has-inflicted-misery-on-uk-citizens/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Last week comments from  Sir Philip Alston UN Envoy on Poverty  about inequality in the UK were widely reported.

• New president’s online collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/new-presidents-online-collections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently added to the Library of Congress website: the papers of President James Garfield .

• Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/12/economics-in-the-rear-view-mirror/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2015 Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard from 1932 to 1950. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.

• Is the UK an equal society?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/is-the-uk-an-equal-society/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Released this week, the Casey Review into opportunity and integration. This independent review was commissioned in July 2015 and conducted by Dame Louise Casey.

• SIPRI

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/sipri/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 SIPRI Yearbook 2013  –  f rom the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

• The UK housing market

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/the-uk-housing-market/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 The Legal and General reported that from its findings in 2016 the bank of mum and dad was involved in 25% of all property transactions.

• 2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The thread that binds

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/2018-state-of-the-worlds-volunteerism-report-the-thread-that-binds/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 The United Nations has just released its annual report on volunteering.  It has estimations on the extent of volunteering by nation and gender.

• UK Web Archive Gender Equality Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/10/uk-web-archive-gender-equality-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2018 The UK web archive aims to preserve for posterity websites with UK domain addresses. It has a number of special themed collections.