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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 .
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Trade Policy Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/trade-policy-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 The Trade Policy Hub offers free access to papers and research on core trade and investment policy issues, including public procurement, intellectual property rights, trade and...
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Live crime tracker, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/live-crime-tracker-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 From the University of Chicago’s Center on Public Safety and Justice the Live Crime Tracker offers in-depth information on crime, violence and victimization in cities across the...
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Vogue Digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/vogue-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture the Vogue Digital Archive will contain over 15,000 images from 30 years of Vogue.
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John Locke’s journals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/john-lockes-journals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Bodleian Library launch a digital version of John Locke’s journals : https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/?q=%22MS.+Locke+f.
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Domestic abuse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/11/domestic-abuse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 11, 2015 The national domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid has launched a free coercive control toolkit supported by Avon , to coincide with the Home Office’s implementation of the coercive...
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Historical Newspaper Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/14/historical-newspaper-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2015 The University has recently acquired some historical newspaper archives amongst which are the Daily Mail 1896-2004, the Independent 1986-2012 and Punch 1841-1992.
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How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.