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Equality in Higher Education report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...
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More data portals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.
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Rainbow Europe 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/20/rainbow-europe-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2022 The Rainbow Map and Index produced by ILGA-Europe’s ranks 49 European countries on their legal and policy practices for LGBTI people.
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Conflict Severity Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/conflict-severity-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 ACLED is launching a new Conflict Severity Index. This tool will enable researches to compare the extent and severity of conflicts worldwide.
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Matteotti documents
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/01/matteotti-documents/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2024 A collection relating to the aftermath of the murder of Italian socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti in Rome on 10 June 1924 https://lse-atom.arkivum.
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Historical Newspaper Archives: Finance and Economics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives-finance-and-economics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Economist 1843-2011 and the Financial Times 1888-2010.
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Secrets of the Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/19/secrets-of-the-museum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 19, 2024 The BBC recently repeated the 2021 series of Secrets of the Museum, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the conservators and curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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‘Dear Jackie’ doctor letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/dear-jackie-doctor-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A digital collection from Glasgow Women’s library with some images and full text. The letters sent by teenage girls to the 1980s teen magazine health problem page.
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Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/government-defence-anti-corruption-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption.
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European Convention Human Rights anniversary – 67 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/european-convention-human-rights-anniversary-67-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The European Convention on human rights was signed 67 years ago,. See this happy birthday video and blog on its importance from the Rights Information blog.