Surveillance Industry Index
Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry. It includes data and reports on leading companies worldwide, technologies and sales of surveillance products. Also published is a full text report tracing its history, spread and scope. This includes case studies on a […]
Other useful Cold War websites
Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive. The site also has other relevant collections, including the End of the Cold War. All have full text materials for downloading. Also associated with it is the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) whose website […]
British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online
The documentary evidence project, which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences, among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Federation (AVPRF), the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Presidential Archive (APRF), UK National Archives (PREM, FO and CAB files), […]
Global Terrorism database updated
The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). The database is the largest open-access database including information on […]
What does Boris owe?
This site has been created by Remain activist Sarah Noble: Associated with Vote Leave Watch It seeks to hold Leave campaigners accountable. In response to the Leave promise that £350 million that was previously “sent” to the EU would be given to the NHS it has created the website What does Boris owe? which calculates the amount he owes […]
UK European Union Referendum web archive
A web archive created by UCLA and hosted by Archive.it has harvested snapshots of 46 key websites taken during the period of the UK European Union membership referendum from 11 May-20th June. They include official UK government sources, Remain and Leave campaigns. It is possible to browse or conduct a keyword search. Each entry has […]
Gender balance in politics
A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site. This will be an alternative to IPU reporting which comes from member parliaments.
Comparing politicians
With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians. A great source of free open data about the UK is theyworkforyou EveryPolitician covers almost every country in the world and data can be searched by date and name for each country. It can be downloaded in 2 formats: in CSV (excel spreadsheets) or […]
Major changes in European public opinion towards the EU since 1973
Great reference work just published by the European Parliament . The 68 page report uses data from the Eurobarometer reports which survey citizen viewpoints from the EU member nations. A timeline allows trends to be charted. These include responses in relation to the financial crisis. Topics covered include levels of trust in specific EU institutions […]
Trident
The UK Parliament has voted to renew Trident Get some background on the history of this decision, its context in British foreign policy and implications by downloading the excellent summary research briefing from the House of Commons Library which was prepared on the 11th July 2016. This summarises previous UK government documents, parliamentary debates and the […]
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