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Does Trump contradict himself?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/does-trump-contradict-himself/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 Trump of Yore , is a fascinating project from the @qz bot studio when President Trump tweets it uses mathematical software to compare the new postings tweets in the president’s...
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Fast Food Britain
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/fast-food-britain/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 Analysis by the Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation. One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity.
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Gender imbalance in film scripts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/millicent-garrett-fawcett-selected-writings/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 A University of Edinburgh CDCS and genderEd online book-launch event held in September 2022.
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The trial of Joan of Arc
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/12/05/the-trial-of-joan-of-arc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2022 BL Medieval manuscripts has now digitised documents relating to the trial of Joan of Arc. They comprise two manuscripts Egerton MS 984 https://www.bl.
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Protests Against Racism Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/protests-against-racism-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The Protests Against Racism Web Archive is new from the Library of Congress. It focuses on preserving websites created in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
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Liberating Histories: now has periodicals guide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/liberating-histories-now-has-periodicals-guide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Liberating histories website expands with periodicals guide. This site highlights feminist magazine titles written by and for women during 1970s-1990s.
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Did the polls get the referendum results right?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/did-the-polls-get-the-referendum-results-right/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Here are some useful starting points for tracing the polls. Remember to check the methodology used.
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Fake news and journalism standards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/05/fake-news-and-journalism-standards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 5, 2018 The LSE has launched a Truth, Trust and Technology (T3) Commission.
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Field Guide to Fake News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/field-guide-to-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election.