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• On the theme of voting…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/on-the-theme-of-voting/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public...

• Global Terrorism database updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/global-terrorism-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism...

• Social Media and the Olympics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/social-media-and-the-olympics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 A great example of the use of Instagram to highlight street art in Rio.

• Syrian Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/syrian-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 This website hopes to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses in Syria.

• 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.

• 20% of women have experienced some kind of sexual assault since the age of 16

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/20-of-women-have-experienced-some-kind-of-sexual-assault-since-the-age-of-16/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 Latest shocking data from the UK Office of National Statistics. This compares with 4% of men. See the methodology and full report on the website.

• What does Warren Buffet think?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/what-does-warren-buffet-think/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 Find out in this free online video library released by CNBC . T he  Warren Buffett Archive is an enormous online collection covering business, investing, money and lessons in life.

• An economy for the 1%?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/an-economy-for-the-1/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 The World Economic  Forum opens at Davos this week with the release of its 2016 Global Risks report .

• Employers who underpay workers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/employers-who-underpay-workers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.

• 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.