Our marathon
Northeastern University Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings Entitled Our Bombing it has crowd sourced journalist materials. It includes photographs, interviews and eye witness testimony. There are also social media postings and stories from the Boston Globe.
Africa Open Data
Africa open data Useful initiative of the Open Africa Platform which is part of the Ujuzi Initiative and created and funded by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI), the World Bank Institute (WBI) and Google. It aims to become the largest central repository for Government, Civil Society, Corporate and Donor Agency Data. There are currently over […]
Street protests and their repression
International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations released a report: Take back the streets about the repression of street protests worldwide. Countries covered include: U.S., U.K., Canada, Israel, Egypt, Argentina, South Africa, Kenya, and Hungary. The 35 page section on UK includes coverage of anti-terrorism measures and street protest.
Social mobility and child poverty
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission releases major report. This body aims to monitors the progress of government and others in improving social mobility and reducing child poverty in the United Kingdom. Its official website has press releases and papers. Politics live blog from the Guardian has some interesting rounds up of twitter […]
Global Slavery Index
Global slavery index. Published this week by the Walk Free Foundation. A ranking of 162 countries around the world, based on a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. On this theme see […]
Cornell University Political Americana Collection
Cornell University Political Americana Collection Hundreds of images of political commemorative items from the USA from 1789 to 1980. These include cartoons, election leaflets, badges, flyers and lots of election materials. The majority of the collection was donated to Cornell University by private collector Susan H. Douglas between 1957 and 1961.
ECPR YouTube channel
European Consortium for Political Research YouTube channel ECPR is an independent, scholarly association, established in 1970. Its YouTube channel is currently providing access to videos of recent discussion and lecture workshops covering political science scholarship. For other useful videos of political events try UK Political Studies Association channel. This also has some conference materials as […]
US Presidential Papers online
Now available from the GPO online from 1991 – They include statements, speeches and remarks. Other great presidential resources. MillerCenter presidential resource has an extensive speech archive and an image gallery The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. […]
theHive
World Bank’s theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits. It aims to gather in one place reports and resources relating to human conflict, human security and violence. It also takes items from the Human Security Report Project which was renowned for its […]
Social science video sites
TED videos from world leaders covering all aspects of social and environmental sciences RSA audio and events. Includes NHS, technology and change. Videolectures net. Great examples including academic lecture series. Socialcare TV. From SCIE, focuses on social work skills Vlearn . Business and economics talks.
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