1 week after Brexit: social science resources

Union Jack and EU flag flying side by side

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It has been one week since the people of the UK voted to leave the European Union. The changes to come will have long reaching effects economically, politically and socially. Research began before the vote and has continued after with a range of resources available to social scientists to study “Brexit”.

Event
The Blavatnik School of Government is hosting a public event Brexit Britain: what now?. There will be a debate from a panel of experts Professor Anne Davies, Lord Wood of Anfield and Dr. Emily Jones. The event will take place in the Blavatnik School of Government on Thursday 30 June at 6pm. It is free to attend but registration is required.

Data
Dr. Kathryn Simpson, University of Manchester, has been consulted throughout the referendum campaign for here expertise in comparative European politics, political behaviour and public opinion. She has discussed the need and demand for reliable quality data to examine all sides of the EU referendum, and its consequences, in her latest blog post Making sense of Brexit – the data you need to analyse.

Many of these data are available through the UK Data Service and include:

For the latest data news check out the Bodleian Data Library.

Newspapers
The Bodleian Libraries subscribes to a range of newspapers that are covering “Brexit” including The Economist (also available in print at the SSL), The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. News databases like Factiva will also be useful.

Other resources
The SSL has recently blogged about our range of resources on the EU, migration and democracy. Check out our previous blog post for more information.

Telegraph Historical Archive

Stack of newspapers with headline old news

The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000, is now available until 31 May 2016. You can access it via SOLO.

This is a fully searchable digital archive of what was once the world’s largest selling newspaper. You can search across 1 million pages of the newspaper’s backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961. The newspaper was aimed  at a wealthy, educated readership. It is commonly associated with traditional Toryism, despite its more ‘liberal’ beginnings, especially in regard to foreign policy. The paper published widely on foreign affairs and foreign cultures.

Please send feedback to jo.gardner@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The Yearbook of the European Audiovisual Observatory

We have recently purchased access to a new online resource the Yearbook of the European Audiovisual Observatory both the 2014 and 2015 editions.

European Audiovisual Observatory Yearbook logo

The Yearbook provides a wide range of statistical data on the four main industry branches of the audiovisual sector in Europe: the film industry; television; video/DVD; on-demand audiovisual services. The Yearbook provides three sub-sets of data, delivered as it becomes available:

  • Detailed tables and figures;
  • country profiles;
  • key trends reports.

The figures are available in Excel tables and graphs, and the text is available in PDF version.

Anyone with an Oxford single sign on can obtain a username and password that will allow them access. To do this: simply follow the link on SOLO:

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:OXFORDOXF05237