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Where do LGBT people live?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/where-do-lgbt-people-live/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 Data from the office of National Statistics which highlights sexual identity at a local authority level from 2013-2015. It also includes breakdown by age and gender.
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LGBT and work
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/lgbt-and-work/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 A report from the TUC – the cost of being out at work – reported nearly 39% LGBT responding to their survey had been victimised or discriminated against by colleagues.
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Global attacks on the press
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/global-attacks-on-the-press/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 This week Freedom House Reports released Attacks on the Record – the state of world press freedom 2017/18.
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Hope Not Hate: the State of Hate in 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/22/hope-not-hate-the-state-of-hate-in-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 22, 2019 Annual report from the group which monitors online hate , islamophobia, homophobia and the state of the far right in Britain today.
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Oral history: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-international-league-for-peace-and-freedom/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Oral Histories is part of the ‘These Dangerous Women’ community heritage project.
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The Giant Bible of Mainz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/the-giant-bible-of-mainz/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 The Giant Bible of Mainz Digitized by the Library of Congress Famous for being one of the last handwritten by a scribe in 1450s.
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Rap music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .
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Obama’s 2008 election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/21/obamas-2008-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2014 President Barack Obama Visual Iconography A digital library from Cornell University which provides free access to campaign materials from the 2008 election campaign of president...
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DCSSA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/dcssa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Database of the Constitutions of Sub-Saharan Africa Useful searchable site created by Holzinger, Kern, and Kromrey in 2013. Includes recent and historic versions in full text.
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Scottish independence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/07/scottish-independence/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2014 Scottish independence referendum collection Details about this project from the National Library of Scotland which will include a webarchive .