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Year in Twitter 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/year-in-twitter-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 Official website from Twitter where you can trace key trends and the most influential stories and individuals.
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Information Disorder – a report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/information-disorder/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The Council of Europe recently commissioned this report on the ‘pollution’ of information and the Internet.
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Africa: child well-being
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/africa-child-well-being/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 The child well-being country scorecards , issued by Afrobaromater cover responses to questions posed to African citizens in over 30 nations, provide insight into perceptions and...
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Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/05/5396/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2024 Playlist of Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes , in which Ian explores British history and culture by considering the national sense of humour.
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MS237/1/28
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/sloane2small/
MS237/1/28sellotape has yellowed and stained the pages. Image: Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
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Record of donation by Capt. & Mrs. T. Smithies Taylor in memory of their son (ULA P/AR1)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/smithiestaylordonation/
Record of donation by Capt. & Mrs. T. Smithies Taylor in memory of their son (ULA P/AR1)
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Facebook government data requests
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/facebook-government-data-requests/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 The latest update from Facebook shows increasing demands from governments for data on users and content removal. It also provides information on legal challenges.
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What are the most popular online purchases?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/what-are-the-most-popular-online-purchases/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Recent date from the ONS allows you to discover what types of products are purchased by different age-groups.
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Index of Economic Freedom 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/06/index-of-economic-freedom-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 6, 2015 From the Heritage foundation/ Wall Street Journal – an annual ranking of economic policy/ regulation in nations worldwide. The index equates ‘ freedom’ with economic prosperity.
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Death Sentences in 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/death-sentence-in-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 Amnesty International publishes its latest annual report and statistical data on the death penalty worldwide in 2014 .