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Hebrew manuscripts, Library of Congress
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/hebrew-manuscripts-library-of-congress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Hebraic Manuscripts from the Library of Congress Over 230 full text Hebrew manuscripts have now been made available online.
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Southwest Asia and North African literature
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/southwest-asia-and-north-african-literature/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Kotobli is a book discovery platform and database for authors, books, publishers and literary magazines from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.
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Festival of the accused
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/festival-of-the-accused/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 Videos or discussion and debate on the history of witch trials from a recent conference held at the British Library in November 2023.
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Portal on Gender-Based Violence in Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/portal-on-gender-based-violence-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 Created by Alt Advisory, based in South Africa, this website provides information on and mapping of responses to gender-based violence in African nations.
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Real-time crime index, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .
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Children and happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/children-and-happiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 More children in the UK are unhappy with their lives according to the latest annual report from the Children’s Society which measures happiness and wellbeing in over 2,000...
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Webinar – Sylvia Pankhurst: Art and Activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/07/webinar-sylvia-pankhurst-art-and-activism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2022 Watch again on YouTube https://youtu.
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Atlas of Economic Complexity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/01/atlas-of-economic-complexity-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2022 A resource from Harvard University which maps accurate real data on global trade worldwide enabling great data visualizations.
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League of Nations Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/06/league-of-nations-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 6, 2022 The massive project to digitise the entire League of Nations Archives is now complete. Digitisations are now available when you search the UN Archives catalogue https://archives.ungeneva.
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Work statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/21/work-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2022 The ILO 19th ICLS (WORK) database provides data based on revised statistical standards. The standards have been changed to include factors such as unpaid labour.