Social science sites of the week July 9th 2020


Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week 

Still adding Links to the blog. This week some reaction to the plan for jobs  http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-reports-plan-for-jobs.html

Covid UK web archive is creating a special curated collection which will provide snapshots of selected websites they will be added to a previous pandemic collection on SARS. Some items will only in accessible in the BL Reading rooms. They include news outlets, political commentators, medical journals and pressure groups



 Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) and the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) at Princeton University have launched the  — a joint project that provides the public with real-time data and analysis on political violence and demonstrations in the United States It includes data on violence associated with Black lives matter demonstrations.


UK Higher Education Roadmap released

Our scoop.it page includes links to this and other papers released this weekThese include some Macroeconomic assessment of the potential future impacts of increasing R&D expenditure in the UK on GDP, employment and productivity


Time and Tide: Connections and Legacies
Great resource created to commemorate the centenary of this key magazine which is crucial for understanding the development of feminism and womens rights in the Uk. It is directed by Catherine Clay Associate Professor in Feminist and Literary Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Time and Tide was launched  in May 1920,  and was unique in being a female-produced publication its editions contained contributions from Vera Brittain, E. M. Delafield, George Bernard Shaw, Rebecca West, Ellen Wilkinson, and Virginia Woolf. Its website includes an illustrated timeline and biographies of its female directors and contributors, a downloadable Souvenir Edition of Time and Tide,  with sample articles and resources for teachers and researchers.

July 11th World Population Day

United Nations Population Division
produces regular demographic estimates and population projects for countries worldwide. Its website provides free access to reports and data including world fertility, mortality and World Population reports
United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) sexual and reproductive health agency. Its website includes free access to recent editions of its annual State of World Population report which highlights recent trends.

UN Demographic Yearbook
Free access to all editions from 1948 onwards. Covers population size, births, deaths, marriage, divorce for nations worldwide. Also covers foreign born populations.


For Uk data try ONS website
there is also a pyramid by age and ethnicity for your local area
for historical sources try Histpop - Online Historical Population Reports

Provides online access to the complete population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937. In addition to the census; the site also includes essays from historians which set the materials in context.
A Vision of Britain through time
This well-designed site, created by staff at the University of Portsmouth, provides free access to a wealth of historical maps, census data and statistical reports giving a real sense of how the country has changed since 1801. It includes lesson materials for teachers. Some full datasets restricted to UK education use only.




Archive of the Irish In Britain Digitised

Recently launched by London Metropolitan University there are now growing number so f resources available online covering the period 1899-2018. These include  documents,  recordings, posters, photographs, community newsletters oral histories and more. Relating to the Irish community in Britain

Memory Map of the Jewish East End of London

The project is a collaboration between the artist and writer Rachel Lichtenstein and Dr Duncan Hay, Professor Laura Vaughan, and Peter Guillery, from three research units from the Bartlett Faculty for the Built Environment, University College London: the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the Space Syntax Laboratory, and the Survey of London. It sims to preserve  audio interviews, photographs, and essays about more than 70 sites where Jewish refuges and migrants settled in London during the 20th Century



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