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• Vacant properties

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 .

• 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.

• Minecraft game: Uncensored Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/minecraft-game-uncensored-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Uncensored Library by Reporters without Frontiers A minecraft game created by RSF  which is filled with articles and websites which are censored in their countries of origin.

• Reuters Digital News Report 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/reuters-digital-news-report-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 What impact has COVID 19 had on news consumption?  How popular are podcasts? And many more fascinating facts on the amount and type of news consumption worldwide.

• 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.

• Family Matters: How the 20th Century changed family life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/30/family-matters-how-the-20th-century-changed-family-life/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2020 A new online exhibiton from Europeana which includes materials from Europe’s national libraries and archives.