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• Economic impact of Ebola

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/20/economic-impact-ebola/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic with short and medium term estimates for West Africa from the World Bank.

• The most dangerous places for a journalist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/07/the-most-dangerous-places-for-a-journalist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the  Committee to Protect Journalists  in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the  Guardian Datablog  visualisation graphic.

• Global slavery index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

• How do you access news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.

• World refugee day 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/world-refugee-day-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Find out why we need to support refugees by consulting the UNHCR Global Trends report  2015. More than 65.

• Mentions of Trident on Historical Hansard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/21/mentions-of-trident-on-historical-hansard/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2016 Blog post on the Talking Humanities blog analyses the use of the word  Trident in parliamentary debate: https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.

• Where is the worst place to be a journalist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/where-is-the-worst-place-to-be-a-journalist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 According to the 2016 Index produced annually by The Committee to Protect Journalists    Somalia tops the rankings.

• Never mind the ballots

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/never-mind-the-ballots/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20 th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 –...

• Suffrage 100 resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/suffrage-100-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Vote 100 website.

• Digital Terrorism and Hate online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new report from the Simon Wiesenthal center finds the rise of alt-tech far-right digital websites and platforms.