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• Asian Development Outlook 2018

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/asian-development-outlook-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 The Asian Development Bank has just released its latest annual review which has a special focus on the impact of technology upon employment and jobs in the region.

• Irish Independence film collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/irish-independence-film-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 Free access via the Irish Film Institute player to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the...

• New suffrage history podcast

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/new-suffrage-history-podcast/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 From the LSE: From People’s Dissent to Royal Assent: Sylvia Pankhurst and the struggle for the vote.

• Netflix research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.

• World Investment Report 2018 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/09/world-investment-report-2018-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 9, 2018 The  World Investment Report  has been published annually since 1991 by UNCTAD. It provides specialist reports on trends in foreign direct investment worldwide.

• How much fake news is there?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.

• Trends monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/trends-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 Trends Monitor is a research project being undertaken by Media Matters for Democracy to identify and document potential manipulation of political hashtags and conversations on Twitter in...

• Suffrage exhibition

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/07/suffrage-exhibition/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2018 The Women’s Hall at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives is the first major exhibition about the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS).

• Historical Newspaper Archives: Finance and Economics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives-finance-and-economics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Economist 1843-2011 and the Financial Times 1888-2010.

• Who trusts advertising ?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/who-trusts-advertising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015   Free to download from the Nielsen site a report on global trust in advertising. It considers whether people trust traditional media more than  the internet online and mobile.