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A history of general elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/a-history-of-general-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 A history of General Elections online exhibition based on LSE Library archives. It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards.
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Working household poverty is worse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/working-household-poverty-is-worse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 According to the latest annual poverty and social exclusion report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which provides data and analysis for the last 5 years .
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Same-sex marriage: France
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/same-sex-marriage-france/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from...
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Atlas of Economic Complexity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/21/atlas-of-economic-complexity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 21, 2014 Atlas of Economic Complexity Free online book published by The Observatory of Economic Complexity which aims to make available to the public complex data about international trade...
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World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/world-survey-on-the-role-of-women-in-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 This report is published every 5 years by UN Secretary-General. The 2014 issue focuses on themes relating to gender and sustainable development.
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World ranking of prosperity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/world-ranking-of-prosperity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries.
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Archiving activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/archiving-activism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 The aim of this project is to explore the ways in which radical, feminist and at times illegal protest actions are archived.
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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Just released from the United Nations development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the latest edition of this index with an online data...
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Career trajectories in UK departments of Politics and International Relations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/career-trajectories-in-uk-departments-of-politics-and-international-relations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A report for the British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association covering UK academic careers in Higher education.
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...