For this week a special easter special

 

On a topical theme here are some free social science sites for Easter.

Images of Easter.
British pathe News
<http://www.britishpathe.com/video/easter-hat-parade/query/EASTER+HAT+PA
RADE>  - has some great easter fashions if you search for Easter hat
parade.

See some art  relating to Easter on Your Paintings
<http://www.blogger.com/>  which displays the UK national collection of
paintings.
The National Gallery
<http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/easter-story>  has a free
collection of paintings showing the Easter Story. Getty images
<http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=
en-GB&family=creative&p=easter&lic=rf&assetType=image>  has some free
contemporary images of rabbits and eggs.

Economics of chocolate
World Atlas of chocolate
<http://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/intro/intro.html>
is a free a fact book. The site is now gettign a bit old but is a good
starting point for information on the history of the industry.

The International Cocoa organization provides free access to basic
statistics on prices see the monthly market reviews.
<http://www.icco.org/statistics/monthly-review-of-the-market.html>  It
also has a section on the chocolate industry
<http://www.icco.org/about-cocoa/chocolate-industry.html>  

for trade try UNCTAD - there is a special report from 2008
<http://r0.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/cocoa/companies.htm>  for cocoa.
You can also trace recent statistics fro cocoa and chocolate on the
UNCTAD stats website. <http://unctadstat.unctad.org/> 
The Fairtrade foundation
<http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/what_is_fairtrade/facts_and_figures.aspx>
has some data on fairtrade cocoa product sales in the Uk
there are also case studies for fairtrade chocolate
<http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/products/chocolate_products/default.aspx> 

Advertising.

Get some free examples of recent adverts for chocolate on Adforum.
<http://uk.adforum.com/search/creative-work/>  examples from Uk, USA and
europe.
The advertising archives
<http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/en/pages/about-page.html>
provides great images of historic campaigns and posters from the 19th
century onwards.There is also a special section of retro historic easter
advertising.
<http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/?service=feature&action=show_conte
nt_page&language=en&feature=7> 

Social History

Connected Histories - covers 1800-1900 some items are protected but it
is possible to use the site to locate a wealth iof materials from major
british historic databases
<http://www.connectedhistories.org/resource.aspx>  These include british
newspapers, images from the British Museum collections. eg images from
the John Johnson Ephemera.
<http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:jjo
hnson:&rft_dat=xri:jjohnson:image:20071219122802kg:1> 
for 20th century social history pathe news.
there is also a free life magazine archive
<http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/LIFE.html?id=R1cEAAAAMBAJ&redir_e
sc=y>  - see these easter cookies from 1950
<http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vEgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=easter&hl=en
&sa=X&ei=voBQUdnoF8jL0AW1_4CgAQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=easter&f=fal
se> 
Australian womans weekly archive <http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww> . lots of
content on womens interests and home life.
 See some good things for easter from 1938
<http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/read/204152?q=easter+eggs&s=0&resultId=num3
#page/58/mode/1up>  Easter gaieties
<http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/read/184888?q=easter+&s=0&resultId=num8#pag
e/40/mode/1up>  (fashionable hats from ) 1952;  a glamourous french
fashion for easter from 1956
<http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/read/227037?q=easter+fashion&s=0&resultId=n
um1#page/16/mode/1up> 
and an exciting casual fashion from 1970
<http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/read/224770?q=easter+fashion&s=10&resultId=
num19#page/89/mode/1up> 

 

LSE Easter chocolate special
http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/easter-chocolate-specia
l.html

From some of our subscription databases

 

 

Happy  easter 

Heather dawson

Library

 


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