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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection of Charleston Slave Badges
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-collection-of-charleston-slave-badges/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 T he collection includes 146 rare badges dating as far back as 1804.
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Chemical weapons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/29/chemical-weapons/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2013 OPCW-UN Joint Mission Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Joint Mission in Syria creates new website .
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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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Global billionaires and political power
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/global-billionaires-and-political-power/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Global billionaires political power list New From the Brookings Institution and based on a forthcoming book by Darrell West, this is a ranking of political power exercised by the top...
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The Changing Wealth of Nations 1995-2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/the-changing-wealth-of-nations-1995-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 This book from the World Bank tracks the wealth of 141 countries between 1995 and 2014.
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Reith Lectures Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/reith-lectures-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Audio files and transcripts of over 240 lectures from 1948 onwards. These lectures are funded by the BBC and aim to advance public understanding of contemporary issues.
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UK Education select committee uses Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/uk-education-select-committee-uses-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.
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Free data journalism handbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/free-data-journalism-handbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Released by European Journalism Centre: http://datajournalismhandbook.
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Operational research resources for development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/operational-research-resources-for-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) has created a Wikipedia-type page of free resources for development workers and developing countries to read and...
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LGBTI in developing countries
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/lgbti-in-developing-countries/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes? Interesting new Research policy working paper from the World Bank which highlights the...