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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.
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Cuts and austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...
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Labour Together
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/labour-together/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Find out more about this new political grouping launched this week by members of the Labour Party to unify and renew the party.
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Victims.Auschwitz.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/victims-auschwitz-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: has created a new tool victims.auschwitz.
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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Historic photographs: the changing workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/2387/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online.
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How one woman’s app is changing political communication
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/how-one-womans-app-is-changing-political-communication/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Pia Mancini from Argentina is developing IT tools that can empower communities to get involved in politics worldwide in this recent Guardian newspaper article.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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New corporate governance reforms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/new-corporate-governance-reforms/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 This week the UK government introduced a series of measures to regulate corporate governance. The aim of these is to increase trust.
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Consumer behaviour in the UK (Black Friday/Christmas)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/consumer-behaviour-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 PWC retail outlook has predictions for the UK economy It also has the results of a recent survey on predicted shopping/ consumer behaviour for Black Friday in 2017.