Search
-
Policy Network launch State of the Left Website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/policy-network-launch-state-of-the-left-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 Following on from the Labour party resurgence The London office of the think tank Policy Network has recently launched State of the Left to offer free access to news and reports on...
-
Digital Library of the Middle East
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/digital-library-of-the-middle-east/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 DLME: Digital Library of the Middle East In response to violence and cultural destruction in the region, the Council on Library and Information Resources in association with...
-
Edelman Trust barometer 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/edelman-trust-barometer-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Has revealed that large percentages of people worldwide (especially in the USA where it dropped overall by 37%) have experienced a decline of trust in business, government, NGOs and...
-
Divided Society: Northern Ireland 1990-1998
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/14/divided-society-northern-ireland-1990-1998/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2018 Part of the Northern Ireland Political Collection, curated by the Linen Hall Library, has been digitised.
-
Public Finances – A Historic Overview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/public-finances-a-historic-overview/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 H elpful new paper from the House of Commons Library: Briefing Paper 8265 by Philip Brien and Matthew Keep, published in March 2018 It covers i ncome and spending from...
-
Trade in services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/trade-in-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 OECD WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS) dataset is now available .
-
UK youth unhappiness rising…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/uk-youth-unhappiness-rising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 …according to the latest annual Princes Trust survey of 2,194 16-25 year olds. Get the full results from their website.
-
Statelessness Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/statelessness-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 In March a new tool, the Statelessness Index , to compare national EU government policies towards stateless persons was launched by the European Network on Statelessness It makes...
-
2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/2017-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices These are Published annually by the US State Department and cover the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries worldwide.
-
The Magazine Rack
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/internet-archive-magazine-rack/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Worth revisiting. Free access via this great site to a downloadable collection of over 34,000 digitized magazines and other monthly publications. They can be sorted by title or date.