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Hebrew manuscripts, Library of Congress
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/hebrew-manuscripts-library-of-congress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Hebraic Manuscripts from the Library of Congress Over 230 full text Hebrew manuscripts have now been made available online.
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Southwest Asia and North African literature
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/southwest-asia-and-north-african-literature/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Kotobli is a book discovery platform and database for authors, books, publishers and literary magazines from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.
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Festival of the accused
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/festival-of-the-accused/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 Videos or discussion and debate on the history of witch trials from a recent conference held at the British Library in November 2023.
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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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Women of Westminster online exhibition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/women-of-westminster-online-exhibition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 A new online exhibition available via Google Arts And Culture which has been curated in association with the LSE Library.
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Parliamentary rules database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.
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Windrush Passengers 1948 Arrival List
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/windrush-passengers-1948-arrival-list/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Digitised by Goldsmiths University of London new transcription of the Windrush passenger list the original of which is held at The National Archives.
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Financial Secrecy Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/financial-secrecy-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Which jurisdictions have the most secret offshore tax havens? Find out in the latest annual ranking from the Tax Justice Network which covers transparency and accountability .
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Coronavirus: Media coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.
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Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth-Century Dissent
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/radical-a-retrospective-of-twentieth-century-dissent/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 An online exhibition from the University of Utah It includes examples of 20th century pamphlets, posters and literary magazines from radical socialist and workers organisations.