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Primary Sources: speeches
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1266/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings. For speeches, choose spoken word speeches.
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Lantern: Media History
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1276/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Lantern : Media History A free, open access search platform for media history research. Directors include academics Eric Hoyt, Carl Hagenmaier, and Wendy Hagenmaier.
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Youth (un)employment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/1436/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 EU youth prospects This week a major conference of EU leaders discussed youth unemployment in Europe see EU papers, news and report on youth employment in Europe Also on this theme a...
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Company Data: 2 sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/24/company-data-2-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2014 Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) database has been upgraded. BACH is managed by the European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices.
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Poverty in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/04/poverty-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2014 Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social Policy and Innovation (ImPRovE) Useful project which is focusing upon social policy and poverty in Europe.
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Are the rich getting richer?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/are-the-rich-getting-richer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 According to Oxfam in research timed for the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos , in 2014, the richest 1% owned 48% of global wealth.
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Are young people the ‘new poor?’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/are-young-people-the-new-poor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 The latest LSE research has revealed that despite better qualifications, young people in their 20s have suffered a higher percentage of falling wages than older generations.
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Media in the Age of Cybersurveillance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/media-in-the-age-of-cybersurveillance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 What is the nature, extent and impact of Internet surveillance on journalism? This question is considered in a new report Watching the watchdogs just released by CIMA (Center for...
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Will you be worse off than your parents?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/will-you-be-worse-off-than-your-parents/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 Get some recent data from the latest inter-generational fairness Index published by the Inter-generational Foundation.
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Where is the worst place in the UK to be a girl?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/where-is-the-worst-place-in-the-uk-to-be-a-girl/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 According to the latest report from Plan UK five indicators were used to rank the 346 local/unitary authorities in England and Wales.