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• Historical American Newspapers – a reminder

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/historical-american-newspapers-a-reminder/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 The Chronicling America database from the Library of Congress  provides access to more that 8.1 million newspapers 1836-1922.

• Surveillance Industry Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/29/surveillance-industry-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2013 Privacy International Launches Surveillance Industry Index/Database This database includes information provided by WikiLeaks and Omega Research Foundation.

• Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/guardian-newspaper-launches-new-business-blogs/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.

• Peace Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.

• Unfiltered News

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.

• Truthy project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.

• Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/19/arab-revolt-reporters-without-frontiers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 19, 2011 http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings.

• Images of Woman – Visual Communication in Advertising

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/images-of-woman-visual-communication-in-advertising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 A really great site for students created by Trevor Millum who studied History at Birmingham University before completing a PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies...

• How much does it cost to raise a child in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/how-much-does-it-cost-to-raise-a-child-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 The latest report from the Child Poverty |Action group gives the figures for raising a child to age 18, based on what the public thinks is a minimum standard of living.

• Is going to University worth it?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/is-going-to-university-worth-it/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 Released this week experimental statistics on employment and earnings of higher education graduates 5 years after graduation.