A new blog has been launched hosting archive materials about the history of economics in America. Run by Irwin Collier of Freie Universität Berlin, it hosts materials from his project investigating the teaching of economics in the United States from the 1880s to the 1950s. It covers the ‘big guns’ of US economics at Harvard, […]
Get links to resources covering the results and their implication for any possible independence from this elections blog. They include newspapers, polls, government websites and academic comment and analysis in English and Spanish.
British Police and Race The Centre for Crime and Justice has just provided free access to a collection of articles under the heading #BlackLivesMatter which discuss aspects of policing and race in the UK and elsewhere. They consider such concepts as institutional racism and the police and racial profiling. The site also made available videos […]
Recently launched by the International Press Institute this site aims to provide journalists with basic knowledge on a country by country basis, of laws, legislation and regulation relating to the press. Issues include freedom of the press, defamation and blasphemy. At present materials relate mainly to Europe and the EU. The site also has some […]
Latest annual report from (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access. The report has data on access to the broadband internet for over a 100 nations worldwide. Topics covered include affordability, 4G, trends in mobile access, national broadband plans and the digital divide. The website also […]
A marvellous site to explore as more full content is being added is the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS). Get free aces to materials not readily available elsewhere. Partners currently include: Centre for Development Studies (Kerala, India) Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya . Items […]
Latest analysis from researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Harvard University and the University of Cambridge found that generally they did even during the latest economic recession. One significant finding – the increase was largest for English women around 10 years after graduation who had earnings 3 times higher than non graduates. Get […]
With the election of Jeremy Corby- The New Policy Network has just published a new essay – After New Labour: The Corbyn surge and the future of social democracy in Britain by Andrew Gamble a professor of politics at the University of Sheffield. Another recent publication on a related theme is from IPPR Learning the right […]
A new open source tool from the Times which has been designed to allow journalists to upload, search and get transcriptions of quotes from online videos which they can then embed in their articles. Read the explanation from the Nieman Lab or download directly from the website.
The NHS Variation in HealthCare atlas 2015 has just been published in collaboration with NHS England, Public Health England and NHS Right Care. It has 102 maps showing regional variations in health care, costs, services and outcomes in different areas of the UK. Another useful source for variation analysis is the Kings Fund in 2011 […]
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