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
Arab social media report
http://www.dsg.ae/en/asmr3/index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Dubai University has been conducting surveys of the use of social media in the Arab uprising. It includes mappings by age gender and use of specific tools such as Twitter and Facebook.
2011 National Human Development Report for Russia
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/national/europethecis/russia/name,24360,en.html Find out more about socio-economic conditions in Russia by reading this major new report. Prepared by the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Focus is upon modernization and human development. Covers changes to the economy, organization of economic life. Also useful is the Nations in Transit report from Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/nations-transit which […]
18 days in Egypt
http://beta.18daysinegypt.com/ American documentary filmmaker and journalist Jigar Mehta has launched crowd-sourced interactive documentary project aimed at capturing the history of the revolution in Egypt. Explore videos contributed by citizen journalists on the website. Note it seems to load better using Firefox. The site is powered by GroupStream, an innovative new platform for group storytelling.
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