How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.html was released this week by the Office of National Statistics. Release includes statistical tables by geographical location. The Guardian has a good graph of locations http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/24/happiness-wellbeing-map-britain For an international comparison Gallup launched a world pessimism index – which concluded that Greeks were most unhappy! http://www.gallup.com/poll/156137/Worldwide-Greeks-Pessimistic-Lives.aspx The New Economics Foundation […]
United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
http://unsdn.org/ This new web portal was launched by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a pilot project, aiming to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration, technology and youth. It […]
British Library releases free sports oral history collection
http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Sport%20 Free access to interviews and recordings of famous British athletes. Those available include Sebastian Coe (on Olympics wins and drugs in sport) , Tanni Grey-Tompson (on disability and sport).
Chicago History Museum online collection
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/ Useful for social historians of fashion and great fund to look at! With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum’s Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete fashion repositories. Its online website provides free access […]
The 4th work-life balance employee survey
From the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and carried out in early 2011: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/f/12-p151-fourth-work-life-balance-employee-survey The report benchmarks key policy changes since the 2006 survey including the Work and Families Act 2006 which offered the extension of the ‘right to request’ flexible working to parents of children under the age of 17 (2009). See more publications […]
Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland
The latest report of HM Inspectorate of Probation on the Inspection of Youth Offending Work in Leicestershire and Rutland is now published.
Measuring Child Poverty
New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries just released by UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 10 http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/660 It uses data from the European Union’s Statistics on Incomes and Living Conditions survey of 125,000 households in 31 European countries. Other useful websites for obtaining facts, figures and reports about poverty and British children […]
British Council film collection online: British Social History
http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked. They are therefore fascinating to social historians. The site also includes some background essays on film history and themes from BFI specialists. and case studies – archive letters relating to the origins of […]
Hate Crime USA
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/violence-crime/comparison-hate-crime-rates-update/ According to a new study from the Williams Institute, gay men face higher rates of hate-motivated physical violence than lesbians, bisexuals or other federally protected groups with high rates of hate crimes. The Study is the first to consider FBI data on hate crimes against lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals separately The bibliography includes […]
New York Times Archive
We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms. This resource is displayed on the A-Z database list. For more information see http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/n/new-york-times
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