Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XV, Soviet Union, June 1972–August 1974 http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v15 Useful for historians of the cold war. Includes declassified document & exchanges between Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon. Topics include the SALT talks. Other volumes in the series are also available. http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments Time period covered 1940s-early 1970s.
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The Riots Communities and Victims Panel: Interim report
Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition established the Riots Communities and Victims Panel. You can read the interim report of the panel at http://www.5daysinaugust.co.uk/ Other useful sites on this topic include: London Recovers […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Sight and Sound – electronically
We now have access to Sight and Sound electronically from 01/01/2000 to date. It can be accessed on the Journals A-Z tab on the library home page and through the database Art Full Text: http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/a/artfulltext
Open Secrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections. Information on fundraising over time by different candidates, enabling candidate comparisons and fundraising in particular regions. . Charts and graphs of trends are provided.
Countries at the Crossroads 2011
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702 Access the full text of this report from Freedom House. It analyses democratic governance in 35 nations it regards as being at a crossroads in the road to full democracy. These include a number of nations affected by the Arab spring. Topics covered include civil liberties, corruption and the rule of law. Other similar […]
Citing datasets
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets. Topics covered include elements of data citation, challenges involved in citing and linking to datasets associated with research. Produced by the Digital Curation Centre.
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Occupy Wall Street
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials. There are currently over 175 materials preserved. They include pictures of protests across the USA from activists, audio files of speeches and images of leaflets produced. For instance see the insert designed to deter companies that send […]
The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organized by the Campaign for Social Science
http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2011/10/the-riots-of-summer-2011-seminar-organised-by-the-campaign-for-social-science/ Access the presentations from an event which took place at Gresham College, London on 13th October 2011. Podcast available soon. The presentations cover 3 main themes: How did we come to this? Is Britain “broken”? Were the rioters “just criminals”? It also has some useful suggestions for further reading. Including links to articles and reports […]
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