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Resource guides produced by the ILO Library in Geneva provide guidance and direct links to key documents statistics and websites. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/resource/guide.htm Topics covered include child labour, disability, gender equality, microfinance and the informal economy. The ILO also has a number of other excellent free sites for those interested in work related issues. These include the ILO […]
Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) has released the latest data on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a devinfo book http://www.devinfo.info/mdginfo2011/ This makes it easier for users to select indicators and areas to create their own graphs. The official MDG website has definitions of the goals and further maps http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx Progress reports can also be […]
British Social Attitudes survey released
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-28th-report Major social attitudes study released on the net by National Centre for Social Research. Conducted annually since 1983. This year’s report covers the following themes: Political engagement, Devolution, Private education, School choice, Higher education, Environment, Transport, Housing, NHS, Childhood, Child poverty, Religion full text online . http://ir2.flife.de/data/natcen-social-research/igb_html/index.php?bericht_id=1000001&index=&lang=ENG Earlier results (summaries) from 2009 can also […]
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2011 This annual report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute uses 50 indicators to consider levels of poverty in the UK. This year it also considers the impact of coalition policies. Topics covered include: child poverty, poverty in old age, the unemployed and poverty, housing, fuel poverty and household debt. […]
Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library
http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/ Free access to a national collection about the life and career of the former American president. It has a timeline of key events. The digital library has diaries, letters, cartoons. Key issues are the presidency, also a bibliography of biographies key readings. http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library.aspx
Foreign Relations of the United States: latest release
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XV, Soviet Union, June 1972–August 1974 http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v15 Useful for historians of the cold war. Includes declassified document & exchanges between Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon. Topics include the SALT talks. Other volumes in the series are also available. http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments Time period covered 1940s-early 1970s.
The Riots Communities and Victims Panel: Interim report
Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition established the Riots Communities and Victims Panel. You can read the interim report of the panel at http://www.5daysinaugust.co.uk/ Other useful sites on this topic include: London Recovers […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Sight and Sound – electronically
We now have access to Sight and Sound electronically from 01/01/2000 to date. It can be accessed on the Journals A-Z tab on the library home page and through the database Art Full Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/a/artfulltext
Open Secrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections. Information on fundraising over time by different candidates, enabling candidate comparisons and fundraising in particular regions. . Charts and graphs of trends are provided.
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