Westminster & the UK Government Brexit: the financial settlement – a summary – “The financial settlement – often labelled the ‘exit bill’ or ‘divorce bill’ – sets out how the UK and EU are settling their outstanding financial commitments to each… Read More ›
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Corruption, Student Loan Statistics, and Food Banks in the UK : New Official Publications 20.07.22
Westminster & the UK Government Food Banks in the UK – “The Trussell Trust, a charity working to end the need of food banks, has reported a 15% drop in the number of three-day emergency food parcels it distributed between 31… Read More ›
Gender Budgeting, Spiking, and Land Reform: New Official Publications 04.07.22
European Union Multilateralism and democracy: A European Parliament perspective : in depth analysis. “This analysis looks into the complex relationship between two trends in international governance: an increase in multilateral arrangements between countries in order to govern internationally on the… Read More ›
Visualizing Collation in the Hunterian Manuscript Collection
Guest blog by Dot Porter, University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow. My name is Dot Porter and I’m the Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. In 2020 I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the… Read More ›
Independence in the Modern World, History of the Census, and Scottish Devolution: Section 30 Orders – New Official Publications 21.06.22
Westminster & the UK Government Gigabit-broadband: Funding for rural and hard to reach areas – “As of January 2022, 64% of UK premises had a gigabit-broadband connection available, according to the telecoms regulator, Ofcom. That’s a connection that can support download… Read More ›
Building our partnership with the University of the West Indies
This International Archives Day we celebrate the work of our colleagues at the University of the West Indies at their Cave Hill Campus. In May we spent a week with them learning about the archive and records systems in the… Read More ›
AI, Armed Forces Families, and Children’s health: New Official Publications 08.06.22
European Union AI Watch, road to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence by the public sector: A handbook for policymakers, public administrations and relevant stakeholders. “This handbook is the first endeavour at the European level to outline possible avenues to promote… Read More ›
Channel 4, Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis, and Rising Cost of Living in the UK : New Official Publications 23.05.22
Westminster & the UK Government Channel 4: A Change of Ownership? – “Channel 4 is a publicly owned, non-profit organisation that invests its income back into commissioning content. It receives no public money and is funded entirely through its commercial activity…. Read More ›
Gender Equality, the Queen’s Speech, and Supply Chains: New Official Publications 10.05.22
European Union Evaluation of EU support to gender equality and women’s empowerment in partner countries: Final report. Volume 1. “This final report presents the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Evaluation of European Union (EU) Support to Gender Equality and… Read More ›
Scrapbooking Old English with Edwin Morgan – ‘the nerves must sometimes tingle and the skin flush’.
Guest blog post by Dr Francesca Brooks, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York with the Department of English and Related Literature, and University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow In the preface to his 1952 translation of Beowulf,… Read More ›