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• 1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament...

• Living Home Standard launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/living-home-standard-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing...

• Al Jazeera News game

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/al-jazeera-news-game/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 Interesting example of a game produced by Al Jazeera English which aims to raise questions about investigative journalism and cybersecurity:    HACKED: Syria’s...

• A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/a-cross-country-database-of-fiscal-space/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.

• Punk

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/07/punk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2023 A major exhibition about punk, Rage and Revolution is now on at New Walk Museum.

• Sites of Feminist Memory: A Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/sites-of-feminist-memory-a-map-of-memorials-to-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 This site was created by citizen science which aims to geolocate on a visual map key sites to feminist memorials worldwide.

• Freedom in the World report 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/freedom-in-the-world-report-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings for civil liberties in nations worldwide.  The report also has a useful graphic map of freedoms.

• Are bankers dishonest?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/are-bankers-dishonest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 According to a study published in Nature, the banking culture encourages dishonesty. Research from YouGov has shown that since the recession public trust in banking has declined.

• Is Britain Divided?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/is-britain-divided/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Yes, according to the latest issue of the Social Attitudes survey released this week.

• Will you be worse off than your parents?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/will-you-be-worse-off-than-your-parents/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 Get some recent data from the latest inter-generational fairness Index published by the Inter-generational Foundation.