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• Report the Abuse

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/report-the-abuse/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 A recently launched NGO which seeks to expose crimes and supports victims of abuse within the humanitarian and development aid sector.

• 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.

• Same-sex marriage: France

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/same-sex-marriage-france/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France   Read the full text of the relevant French law  and details of the process in parliament from...

• 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.

• 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.

• American presidency and social media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012   http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election   TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.

• Voices Through Time – Coram

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/voices-through-time-coram/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 Coram was founded in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital and supports children in care.

• Soldier magazine archive online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/soldier-magazine-archive-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier , has been digitised and is now available online for free.

• How Facebook news presents different realities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics.  See the Nieman reports.