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Birmingham Black Oral History Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/birmingham-black-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes...
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Carnegie medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/19/carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2025 The longlist for the 2025 Carnegies has been announced. The Carnegies are awards for books written for children and young adults.
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Surveys: displaced people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/surveys-displaced-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement.
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Reading’s Windrush Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/readings-windrush-generation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants is a series of oral-history recordings developed by members of Reading’s local Caribbean community and...
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World Wide Web Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/world-wide-web-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.webfoundation.
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World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/world-revenue-longitudinal-database-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s.
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True of false?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/true-of-false/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Washington Post has produced a checking program, Truth Teller, http://truthteller.washingtonpost.
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Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .