Social science sites of the week 9 th May 2020


Here is the round of new and interesting  sites of the week

Covid-19
Still adding papers and reports from the Uk government and plans for easing the lock down

Covid-19 Humanitarian
The Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, a joint centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva, the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene have launched a portal  aiming to  capture examples of how humanitarian organizations are responding to and adapting their existing programs or innovating new programs to address COVID-19 in specific real life contexts.

UN Covid-19 data hub
Collates and makes available in one place the key statistics from the UN and national governments .These cover health, economy, populations and social data. There are data sets and visualisations in a range of formats. Some sub-national data is available


Covid-19 response ALNAP Portal
ALNAP is a membership organisation focussing on humanitarian evaluation, learning and performance. This section of its website has resources for aid workers with notes, case studies and evaluations of projects and programmes.
Contributors include international organisations, aid agencies and NGOs.

Covid-19 Archive collecting in Scotland and oral history projects.
A useful set of links to organisations which are aiming to collect and preserve the atmosphere of the times. Maintained by the Scottish Council on Archives 


The COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker
International Centre for Not-for profit Law (ICNL) have established a tracker to monitor government responses to the pandemic that affect civic freedoms and human rights, focusing on emergency laws. At present, there are  over 82 countries that have emergency declarations, 94 countries with measures that affect assembly and 25 countries with measures that affect expression


Missing the Sound of your Library?

This album of sound clips to the ‘normal daily life’ in New York has been compiled by the New York Public Library. It includes nigh life, noisy neighbours (although I don’t think they have always disappeared) , public transport and the Library. Not sure what the background noises to that are! Available from the website or spotify

VE day
Remember the UN day of remembrance and reconciliation 8-9 May for those who lost their lives during the second world war.
Imperial War Museum will be producing sound scapes on its website over the weekend.
The National Archives Blog has images of VE day posters
Its educational materials include  these photos of VE celebrations in London

'Through their eyes: a local perspective on the Second World War'
An online exhibition curated by Berkshire  Record Office which includes original local government documents, letters and photographs. It covers the whole period 1939-1945. Key topics include:   evacuees and VE day celebrations.
More VE day local records can be viewed on the County Durham website. It includes stories of Durham Light Infantry (DLI) soldiers serving in Europe and South East Asia from April to September 1945 and victory celebrations in the region.


Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC)release enquiries digital archive

A new online addition to this extensive website. they include family correspondence with the Commisison including images of proposed memorials searches for loved ones. They reveal the true sorrow of war 
they include records for the grandson of Charles Dickens with plans for his memorial and reburial 


Nature Index 2020 index

The annual listing of  institutions and countries who have published the most in prestigious Nature journal publications. Details on methodology are provided on the website. For more details on recent HE developments including COVID-19 impacts see our scoop.it page.


Trees of London

if you are able to have exercise walks in London and want to know about the trees in your area this site is great. It has natural history guides and you can plot a walk. Also available are. mappings of tree species and tree density in london areas. Data from Greater London Authority Sources 

Great Exhibition of 1851 virtual Tour

A real masterpiece  from the Royal Parks with materials taken from their archives to commemorate the opening in May 1851. It has a 360 degree tour complete with a crystal fountain and crowd noises. The site also has background histories on the purpose of the exhibition.




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