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http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/foreign-affairs-timeline/ The UK National Archives have created a really useful visualisation of name changes and responsibilities of UK Foreign Affairs government departs from 1945 onwards on their labs website.The links click through to the Discovery catalogue where you can trace information and lists of records held by the archives for the individual department.
BACH and ESD
http://www.bachesd.banque-france.fr/?lang=en Bank of Company Accounts Harmonised (BACH) and European Sectoral references Database hosted by Banque de France. The BACH project was launched in 1985 by the General Directorate for General Economic and Financial Affairs (DGEcFin) of the European Commission. The BACH database contains information on the financial statements of different sized companies in nine countries […]
British Bankers’ Association Libor Rate
http://www.bbalibor.com/rates Free access to one of the measures which has dominated the news recently. See the quick guide ‘What are libor rates?’ http://www.bbalibor.com/bbalibor-explained then access the free historic rates (personal use only). Thomson Reuters sets bbalibor on a daily basis and these rates are available for free on a two month delay for a six […]
Data on child poverty
The TransMONEE database: Data on children in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: this database is associated with with the UNICEF MONEE project on the living conditions of children and adolescents in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). It provides free access to 180 economic and […]
World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity
http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.aspx This survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life focussed on what Muslims believe and practice in different areas of the world. The full report can be downloaded from the website . It also considers differences between different sects, generations and genders. http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.aspx#about
History of Undercover Reporting Database
http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/ New from New York University a database covering the history of undercover reporting, mainly in the USA, highlighting key examples that acted in the public good although they might at the time have been regarded by some as unethical in their methods. The stance taken is described here http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/about Historic examples include exposes of slavery […]
Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics. These can now be mapped more effectively using Google data explorer http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/explorer/index.html Explore and visualize key ICT indicators from 1960 to 2011 for about 200 economies worldwide by creating line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts.
World Cities Culture Report 2012
http://www.worldcitiesculturereport.com/ Produced by the Mayor of London; the biggest international survey of its kind. It has collected an unprecedented amount of data on the scope and impact of the cultural assets and activities that are produced and consumed in 12 major cities: Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney […]
RTE Archive
http://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Irish broadcaster provides access to both still and moving images which could have importance for historians of Irish political, social and cultural history of the 20th century. There are a number of themed exhibitions These include coverage of the elections from 1965 onwards http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/688-elections/ Emigration in Irish history http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1030-emigration-once-again/ Items are being gradually added to the […]
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