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  • International Day of Older Persons celebrated October 1st

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/international-day-of-older-persons-celebrated-october-1st/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 See the official website   which also links to related UN resolutions and reports. On this occasion, HelpAge produced the Global Agewatch index.

  • Radiotopia launched

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/radiotopia-launched/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 PRX have launched Radiotopia: http://www.radiotopia.fm/  a new podcast network with support from the Knight Foundation.

  • UK Child Poverty

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/04/uk-child-poverty/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2014 Save the children Fund report on UK Child Poverty The new report  A Fair start for every child: Why we must act now to tackle child poverty in the UK   forecasts shocking rates...

  • “Millennials will spend £53,000 on rent before age of 30”

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/millennials-will-spend-53000-on-rent-before-age-of-30/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 …according to a new report by the Resolution foundation .  See also some interesting comment on declining home ownership and living standards for the young from the Guardian.

  • United Nations Digital Library launched

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/united-nations-digital-library-launched/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The long awaited site combines a number of existing sources from UNBIS net in a more user friendly and mobile friendly format.

  • Social mobility and child poverty

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/social-mobility-and-child-poverty/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission releases major report .

  • UK Government’s Tweets

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/uk-governments-tweets/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 National Archives to capture tweets and social media created by the UK government Their website has a direct link to the  Twitter archive   and a  YouTube archive...

  • FGM

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/fgm/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Last week the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) failed amid controversy.  A cademics discuss whether the case should have been bought at all.

  • NI Archive

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/ni-archive/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection.

  • Journalists in danger

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.

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