Andrew Dunn
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Trade Board records can give us a rare glimpse into the experiences and treatment of individual workers with disabilities or chronic illness in the early 20th century. The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick has an online collection Also this Social History Society blog post from a few years ago by Andy Holroyde, University of […]
Booker Prize winner 2024
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
Mary Middleton
On campaign. This page from English Heritage by historians Andrew Roberts and Lisa Berry-Waite recounts the life of one of the early women political campaigners, Mary Middleton, who sought to be elected in 1924. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War created new opportunities for women politicians but also the […]
Local skills shortages data tool
The Office for National Statistics has released an interactive tool allowing the user to look at demand for specific job roles in a local area and examine whether census and workforce data indicates a suitably skilled workforce is available there. The tool is underpinned by job advert data and calculated demand data. Full methodology is provided on […]
Violation Tracker Global
A new website created by the U.S. non-governmental organization Good Jobs First, Violation Tracker Global documents a wide range of misconduct by multinational corporations in their operations around the world. These are grouped into broad categories including: Competition/Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Employment, Environment, Financial, Government Contracting, Healthcare, and Safety. It is possible to search by company […]
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
JSTOR, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro have released 100 Open Access titles from the highly respected Argentine publisher, Prometeo Editorial. These cover a range of topics and were published mainly from 2020 onwards.
Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
A UN online Tool to monitor the negative impact of sanctions imposed on a country on human rights i that country.The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, has launched a tool for monitoring and assessing the humanitarian impact of unilateral coercive measures. Users can look at the map of sanctioning […]
Digital Literacies with Children
Dr Cristina Costa, from Durham University School of Education, has been working on a digital literacy project with children at a County Durham primary school. The project co-producing picture books about social media topics with children which can help to better understand how young people view social media. The outputs including lesson plans can be […]
Mr Loverman
Playlist of an 8-part series which has just recently been broadcast on BBC1. The series is based on the book of the same name by Bernadine Evaristo which we have in the Reading Lounge at 823.92 EVA.
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