Social Science blog

A young woman’s response to the ‘Sisterhood and After’ website

2013-05-23T12:06:06+01:00

This post is by Abiola Olanipekun, a British Library Intern. Abiola writes about her intellectual and emotional responses to the oral history extracts which are part of the Sisterhood and After website. After my first posting for this blog went well (at least without horrific controversy), I’ve decided to write...

Propaganda and Politics in the Modern Age

2013-05-21T09:38:08+01:00

Ian Cooke, Lead Curator in International Studies and Politics at the British Library and co-curator of the Propaganda exhibition, reflects on the first few days of the exhibition and public responses to it, especially those relating to propaganda in the modern age. These past four days since Propaganda: Power and...

Picturing Propaganda

2013-05-17T16:34:45+01:00

Ian Cooke, Lead Curator in International Studies and Politics at the British Library and co-curator of the recently launched Propaganda exhibition writes about an upcoming study day that will examine the power of visual materials. Ian also provides answers to last Friday's quiz. After nearly two years of planning, Propaganda:...

New ORCID Integrated Citation Tool from the ODIN Project

2013-05-13T17:43:45+01:00

The ORCiD and DataCite Interoperability Network (ODIN) project, which BL Social Sciences are a project partner in, have announced the beta launch of a new service for searching and claiming works in DataCite, including UK social science datasets. The new tool can be found at http://datacite.labs.orcid-eu.org and it enables users...

Rosie in the Reading Room

2013-05-10T11:29:42+01:00

Ian Cooke, Lead Curator in International Studies and Politics at the British Library and co-curator of the new Propaganda exhibition writes about propaganda songs and national anthems. Join in with his quick Friday quiz! Well, that was embarrassing. I’ve been checking and making final notes on the recorded sound that...

Propaganda – coming soon

2013-05-08T09:05:19+01:00

Ian Cooke, Lead Curator in International Studies and Politics at the British Library and co-curator of the new Propaganda exhibition, writes about the background to the exhibition and about how decisions were made about the focus and content. The posters are up all around the building this morning, and it’s...

New BL Labs Competition launched

2013-05-03T15:57:04+01:00

Calling all researchers and developers! Our colleagues at BL Labs have launched a new competition. Propose an innovative and transformative project that answers a research question using the British Library's digital collections / data and if your idea is chosen, the Labs team will work with you to make it...

All change, all change!

2013-05-01T16:12:38+01:00

The British Library is rolling out a new look for its blogs. The design has changed, but the content will stay the same. Our social sciences blog will continue to cover our social science collections, events and research as well as discussion about methodologies and resources. We hope you will...

Researching the exhibition

2013-04-30T12:41:04+01:00

Dr Peter Johnston is a freelance researcher, copywriter and editor, who recently worked on researching and writing labels and other text to accompany our Propaganda: Power and Persuasion exhibition. You can follow him on Twitter @PeteAJohnston. Here, Peter describes his experience, and explains the background to one of our exhibits....

What is the future of the voluntary sector? TSRC National Conference

2013-04-26T09:56:17+01:00

Bridget Lockyer, a PhD student at the University of York, reviews the TSRC conference which was held at the British Library in April 2013. In 2013, the voluntary sector is in a state of flux and disruption. After a period of expansion and mainstreaming under New Labour, a change in...