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 […]
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 […]
National Archives: Olympic record
http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/olympics/ A specialist section of pages created by the National archives to highlight their Olympic and Paralympic games holdings. Explore the timeline to see great examples of online primary source materials from 1896-2012. These include photos, manuscripts and government papers relating to Olympic organisation, finance and participation. See the British Foreign Office dispatch from first […]
Charitable giving
For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.aspx Behaviour can also be compared in the World Giving index https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/world-giving-index-2011.aspx Think tank New Philanthropy Capital: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/publications_list.aspx provides free access to many of its reports discussing how charities can make themselves more effective. NCVO has commentary on UK charity policy […]
Technology and protest
Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.html This month, to protest against new internet monitoring plans, twitter users utilised hashtag #TellDaveEverything. The protest took the form of listing mundane events that they thought they should tell the prime minister about to make the point that the new laws would ‘snoop into everything’. Coverage from CBC Canada captured examples. There […]
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