Social science sites of the week 3rd July 2020
Dear All
Here is the latest round up of new
and interesting sites for social scientists.
Covid- resources ACAPs
ACAPS is an independent NGO concerned with providing evidence
based assessment risks to humanitarian aid actors. Its website includes
an analytical risk analysis tool for humanitarian aid
agencies which assesses the current and future riskCrises are defined as
effecting populations of over 30,000. It includes natural and conflict related
disasters. The assessments include: INFORM Severity Index which brings
together 31 core indicators, organised in three dimensions: impact,
conditions of affected people, and complexity.
It has now added a covid19
section. This has a dataset on government
measures . updated weekly this provides details and measures the
impact in 5 categories
Social distancing, Movement restrictions, Public health measures,
Social and economic measures, Lockdowns
Each category is broken down into several types of measures.
Launched by the Centre for Cities to provide economic data on the
recovery of Britain’s largest cities and towns from the lockdown. It compares
average footfall and enables cross city comparisons. There are also worker
number comparisons The methodology I provided on the website
UK Research and development roadmap
Launched this week a major document charting future aims and funding. Also
the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
has published independent
analysis of the impact of public support for research and development (R&D)
on private investment in R&D, which concludes that a one per cent increase
in public R&D increases private R&D by between 0.23 per cent and 0.38
per cent within the same year. The report was commissioned by BEIS and carried
out by Oxford Economics Ltd
Another report released this week contains
a macroeconomic assessment of the potential future impacts of increasing
R&D expenditure in the UK on GDP, employment and productivity. For more
information on recent reports see our scoop.it page
Global education monitoring report, 2020: Inclusion and education:
all means all
This year’s annual report from UNESCO provides worldwide and
country files on the inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream
educational settings. Previous annual themed reports can be accessed on
the main
website
My Heart will always be in Brixton – a Google Arts and Culture
online exhibition of the work of Olive Morris.
Curated by the Back cultural archive . This exhibition highlights the activism of Olive
Morris from OWAAD and the Black Panthers focusing on Black women in the 1970s.
it includes images and sound relating to Black feminism
Funeral programmes (African Americans)
Digital Library of Georgia. is providing free access
to an online collection of materials from funerals which spotlight the African
American experience in the area. Over 3300 funeral programs documenting
tfunerals during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The
programmes s typically contain a photograph of the deceased, an obituary, a
list of surviving relatives, and the order of service. The collection provides
extensive genealogical information about the deceased, including birth and
death dates, maiden names, names of relatives, past residences, and place of
burial.
The Taliban Sources Project
(TSP)
The
Taliban Sources Project (TSP) is one of few Taliban documentation projects in existence
including the cultural, social, and legal output for the years 1979-2011.
It was launched online
in 2020 by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in cooperation
with the University of Oslo. and developed from a private collection compiled
between 2006 and 2011 by researchers based in southern Afghanistan,it ikncludes
materials in English and Arabic including laws, newspapers, journals government
publications as well as memoirs letters and cultural outputs such as poetry
Read the full text of the Declaration via the Library of Congress website
Find out about its drafting using this online exhibition. It gives insight using primary source documents into the editing and writing It also has a timeline of events. It is helpful to look at the original debates and proceeding relating to the constitution which are also available via the Library of Congress
The history of the celebrations.
The Library of Congress has
a good succinct summary of the history of the celebrations with some historic
photos.
History Channel has a fun history
of the use of fireworks in the celebrations
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820 to 1910 contains Independence Day memories from citizens if you search by keyword. The good example highlighted by the Library of Congress is .Celebrating The Fourth,” a chapter of Lewis Reimann’s Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of A Pioneer Family and A Pioneer Town.
4th of July orations
The Internet archive provides free access to over 500 sermons and addresses given on the 4th July before 1913. they offer insight into issues of nationality and national identity.
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820 to 1910 contains Independence Day memories from citizens if you search by keyword. The good example highlighted by the Library of Congress is .Celebrating The Fourth,” a chapter of Lewis Reimann’s Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of A Pioneer Family and A Pioneer Town.
4th of July orations
The Internet archive provides free access to over 500 sermons and addresses given on the 4th July before 1913. they offer insight into issues of nationality and national identity.
For a different viewpoint consider the famous speech The Meaning
of July Fourth for the Negro by slave Frederick Douglass which was
delivered on July 5th 1852.
"Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called
upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your
national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of
natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?
and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national
altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the
blessings resulting from your independence to us?
culture
from home
the
British museum has some marvellous tours of its
galleries.Including 360 views of Egyptian sculptures
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/how-to-explore-the-british-museum-from-home look
out everyday for more inspiring thoughts on twitter and the website.
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