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Civil Rights cold case portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/civil-rights-cold-case-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA.
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Everyday sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.
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Global Abortion Policies Database launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/global-abortion-policies-database-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to this new resource created by UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) which enables...
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Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to gender-responsive disaster risk...
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New data visualisation site from the Office for National Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/new-data-visualisation-site-from-the-office-for-national-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now in Beta version Visual.ONS http://visual.ons.gov.uk/ which aims to provide new visually interesting and accessible displays of official statistics.
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Richard Cobden
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/richard-cobden/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 Richard Cobden lette rs Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was a leading Victorian political stateman well known for his involvement in free trade debates and the anti-corn league.
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GEMMES
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/gemmes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 An economic modelling tool designed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for understanding the effects of climate change on the economy.
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The Zuckerberg Files
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/the-zuckerberg-files/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Not new but recently upgraded, time to revisit The Zuckerberg Files maintained by UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research .
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French Revolution Publications Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/french-revolution-publications-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 French Revolution Publications Collection Free access to digital versions of over 4,000 items from the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center.
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Under reporting of missing and murdered indigenous women (Canada and US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/under-reporting-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-canada-and-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The MMIW Database logs cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people in Canada and the United States, from 1900 to the present.