social sites of the week 7th August 2020



Here is the update of new and interesting sites for social scientists

Covid

Still updating the blog with links to recent reports

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/

Recent shocking items showing unequal impact of lockdown on different sections of Uk society: Over-Exposed and Under-Protected The Devastating Impact of COVID-19
on Black and Minority Ethnic
Communities in Great Britain.

The mental health and experiences of discrimination of LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: Initial findings from the Queerantine Study | medRxiv

Covid-19 map explorer - humanitarian Aid


New from OCHA a focus on data relating to Covid refugees and humanitarian aid programmes. It includes data on 63 nations- including

The number of refugees and internally displaced people, from OCHA, UNHCR and IDMC; Food market prices across a range of commodities, from World Food Programme, The status of current vaccination campaigns and annual vaccination

Teaching British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire: a resource for teachers and learners.

Institute of Historical Research and Runnymede Trust have launched a new crowdsourced guide listing of resources suitable for diversifying and making more representative history lessons. It includes a range of resources - websites, books and digitised primary source suitable for university classes as well as a range of materials for all age groups of school teaching

International Cat day for social scientists!


International Cat Day is a celebration which takes place on 8 August, every year. It was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

How many people in the Uk own a cat?
get the facts from the recent PDSA annual survey in 2019
50% of UK adults owned a pet.
24% of UK adults have a cat with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats
however the most popular pet was a dog 26% of the UK adult population have a dog with an estimated population of 9.9 million pets

In February the Economist had a fascinating feature on countries which spent the most on their pets. USA ranked the highest. Look at the chart to see where Britain was

In 2018 the Adam Smith Institute published a fascinating and fun article on cat and dog economics which estimates way in which pet ownership can have a positive impact on health care expenditure if it reduces levels of mental anxiety in the population.

For some scientific evidence on the impact of pets on physical and mental well being try searching Pubmed
For information on cat welfare in the UK cats Protection website has factsheets, news and information.


Indigenous Community Images of BC online


The Royal BC Museum has made available free online over 16,000 historical photographs depicting Indigenous communities from across BC that were taken between the late 1800s and the 1970s. To view them go to http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Ethnology, type “pn” into the Catalogue Number field and click search. People can also search by specific group eg Haida

Safeguarding Colonial Plantation Records of Malawi (EAP1167)

One of the most recent endangered archive projects from the British Library

The pilot project seeks to locate and safeguard plantation records during the colonial period. These records are located in various tea, and tobacco plantations. The main activities will be to locate the records, develop an inventory and digitise samples of the records. the online records include maps, lists of directors, accounts, slave owning directories

Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers

just released on open access under the

Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance. 477 titles covering the key historical period they offer invaluable insight into the political , economic and social history of the region. There are examples of national and local press and political satire . More titles will be added to the collection.

Muftiships Web Archive

curated web archives collection sites chosen by academic library staff in the USA which aims to preserve snapshots of websites of the websites of Muftis (Muslim legal experts) and leading jurists from the Islamic world.currently includes:

Fatwa and other statements directly related to Covid-19

more inspiring websites everyday on twitter

https://twitter.com/socialsciencec2

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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