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What are the most popular online purchases?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/what-are-the-most-popular-online-purchases/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Recent date from the ONS allows you to discover what types of products are purchased by different age-groups.
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Index of Economic Freedom 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/06/index-of-economic-freedom-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 6, 2015 From the Heritage foundation/ Wall Street Journal – an annual ranking of economic policy/ regulation in nations worldwide. The index equates ‘ freedom’ with economic prosperity.
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Death Sentences in 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/death-sentence-in-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 Amnesty International publishes its latest annual report and statistical data on the death penalty worldwide in 2014 .
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How to improve social mobility in higher education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/how-to-improve-social-mobility-in-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 The report published this week by an advisory group of Universities UK has recommendations which include improving advice given to students and enhancing school/university collaborations.
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Sexual harassment and abuse in Colleges
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/10/sexual-harassment-and-abuse-in-colleges/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2020 Office for Students will intervene if colleges do not have robust procedures for dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
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Trump Twitter archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/trump-twitter-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 Trump Twitter archive has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.
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Women in Congress 1917 – 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/women-in-congress-1917-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The latest edition of this factual reference book from the US Government includes total numbers and names of women in Congress and their roles.
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Online Nation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/online-nation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 Ofcom’s annual Online Nation report and interactive dataset .
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British Library world newspaper data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/british-library-world-newspaper-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Free to download. Get the full title list with dates of coverage and see a map visualizing the areas of the world they cover.
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Modern slavery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/14/modern-slavery-3/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2022 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage This report was produced through a collaboration between the ILO, Walk Free and the International...