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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Oil and Gas Transformation Map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/14/oil-and-gas-transformation-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2020 A new interactive tool created by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University/SIPA and World Economic Forum to track the changes occurring in these energy...
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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L Shternberg
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/l-shternberg/
Lev Shternberg
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UoL Historian wins double book prize
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/uol-historian-wins-double-book-prize/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical...
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Portal on Gender-Based Violence in Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/portal-on-gender-based-violence-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 Created by Alt Advisory, based in South Africa, this website provides information on and mapping of responses to gender-based violence in African nations.
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Real-time crime index, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .