Sociology: Websites

The British Cartoon Archive is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

The professional association for sociologists in the UK.

End Child Poverty has published new figures (May 2019) on the level of child poverty in each constituency, local authority and ward in Britain. Includes an interactive map.

Funds research on economic and social issues.

A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.

A great way of getting up to date information on a range of contemporary social research – the typical format is a sociologist summarising their research and responding to questions from the host or panel.

Poverty reports from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

This report examines changes in the distribution of household incomes in the UK, and the determinants and consequences of recent trends.

Statistics on the number and percentage of people living in low income households for financial years 1994/95 to 2016/17.

Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

Income and earnings, spending and saving, and wealth and debt. These statistics help build a picture of how living standards and inequality have changed.

This series brings together all documents relating to fuel poverty statistics.

Reports from the Child Poverty Action Group.

The Shelter Housing Databank brings together government data on housing need, supply, affordability and other issues at a local, regional and national level. You can view the data as a table or graph, or download it for further analysis.

Stats about the number of emergency food supplies given to people in crisis by Trussell Trust foodbanks.