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This website tracking international trade in non-plastic substitutes is now available on UN Trade and Development’s Datahub online. Non-plastic substitutes are items manufactured instead of non-renewable plastics and aim to reduce the impact on the environment. Data cover a number of years both global, regionally and by type of product. It also gives export values […]
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection of Charleston Slave Badges
The collection includes 146 rare badges dating as far back as 1804. These were used to ‘label’ enslaved people released out for labour in the region and as such form an important part of slave history. The website has images and essays providing contextual history.
Illicit Goods Mitigation Portal
A website created by the Universal Postal Union which provides information on the trade in fakes and counterfeit goods, pharmaceuticals and plants. It includes reports on the impact and nature of the trade and toolkits for identifying fakes.
Russell Lee coal mining exhibits
From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA. The 1946 coal mining survey gave Americans new insight to the conditions that miners and their families lived in. They also include images related to segregation.
Vogue Digital Archive
In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture the Vogue Digital Archive will contain over 15,000 images from 30 years of Vogue. It includes photos, image covers and searchable online exhibitions covering brands, types of fashion and some articles. Note it is not a full text article archive of the magazine.
American women making history and culture
The American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982 (“American Women”) collection on the internet archive includes Pacifica Radio Archives’ holdings from the five Pacifica radio stations (KPFA- Berkeley, CA; KPFK- Los Angeles, CA; WBAI- New York, NY; WPFW- Washington, DC; and KPFT- Houston, TX). They mainly relate to second wave feminism from 1960s-1980s and have fascinating interviews […]
World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD)
This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s. WoRLD tracks directly 9 key components of tax and non-tax revenues, which together contribute about 82 percent of government revenue globally. Some key insights include enabling users to analyse trends. Data can be downloaded in Excel or Stata format.
US election data sets
Covering 2000-2016. Recently released by Library of Congress data package on data.labs.loc.gov/packages/, with associated new resources to help researchers understand and use the data. The new data package includes enhanced documentation explaining the contents of the dataset and how it was created, as well as metadata for candidate campaign sites extracted from the United States Elections Web […]
MOnetary ValuE of health at older ages (MOVE) Simulator
Developed by the WHO Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing Unit, the MOVE simulator allows a user to estimate the value of changes in health status for an individual or a population based on data from harmonized European time use surveys (HETUS).The main idea behind this is is that time is money. Healthy people spend more […]
Civil Rights cold case portal
Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA. During the Civil Rights era, thousands of racially-motivated crimes went unsolved. In many cases, local, state and/or federal authorities examined evidence, conducted interviews, and compiled detailed investigations into these crimes and violations. […]
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