EU Screen…
…launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe. The most recent exhibitions include: Sportswomen and Swedish TV from the 1950s-1980s; Civil rights in Northern Ireland 1968-69 RTE coverage; Being European(changing conceptions of EU membership/ identity).
National Archives timeline of foreign offices
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/foreign-affairs-timeline/ The UK National Archives have created a really useful visualisation of name changes and responsibilities of UK Foreign Affairs government departs from 1945 onwards on their labs website.The links click through to the Discovery catalogue where you can trace information and lists of records held by the archives for the individual department.
Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
RTE Archive
http://www.rte.ie/archives/ The Irish broadcaster provides access to both still and moving images which could have importance for historians of Irish political, social and cultural history of the 20th century. There are a number of themed exhibitions These include coverage of the elections from 1965 onwards http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/688-elections/ Emigration in Irish history http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1030-emigration-once-again/ Items are being gradually added to the […]
Reith Lectures 2012: Arab Spring
Keynote annual lecture series sponsored by the BBC. This year the economic historian Professor Niall Ferguson presented the 2012 BBC Reith Lectures, entitled The Rule of Law and Its Enemies. 4 programmes covered aspects including the Arab spring. Podcasts can be downloaded from the website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/reith The main web site also has transcripts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jmxsk There […]
Peace
The Peace Accords Matrix from the Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.edu/ creates visualisation graphs relating to peace agreements that have been signed since 1989. It is possible to chart on over 50 themes, to compare and contrast and also to review the full text of the peace accord, a timeline of important dates and events […]
USA voting patterns new visualization
http://smpbff1.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?reportid=767b1387bea22b8d3e8486924a69adcd&emailname=essb@boc&filename=0328_nata.hrml A series of graphs taken from the Current Population Survey. You can look by district, ethnic group and age for elections covering 1996-2010. For access to other tables relating to the US census see the Data ferret tool http://dataferrett.census.gov/ This also has details on the methodology used in the survey.
2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/ Just released by the U.S. Department of State. Items online from 1999 onwards. Gives a snapshot of world trends and profiles practices and abuses in specific nations. There are also separate human right series covering religious freedoms and trafficking in persons. Other organizations producing well regarded series include: Amnesty international which has an online […]
Observatoire de l’Afrique
http://www.obsafrique.eu/ A network of European and African institutes and experts on peace and security issues in Africa. Partners include such high profile organisations as African Studies Centre University of Oxford, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center & The Nordic Africa Institute. The website provides free access to information from the network of members plus its […]
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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