Following the announcement of Dame Shirley Pearce as the new Chair of the Court of Governors, LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly provides a history of her predecessors.
1901-1911
Sidney Webb (1859-1947)
Sidney Webb, one of the School’s founders, was the first Chairman of the Court of Governors after the School joined the University of London. He took a particular interest in the work of […]
Stella Bowen’s portrait of Sir Arthur Bowley hangs in the Department of Statistics. Sue Donnelly tells the story behind the picture.
1935 marked the retirement of Sir Arthur Bowley, one of the School’s original teachers. On 28 November 1935 the Emergency Committee agreed to commission a portrait to mark his retirement, funded by public subscription.
The committee appointed to oversee the […]
The Gay Liberation Front held its first meeting in a basement classroom at LSE in 1970. It had a short life and in its wake, numerous gay and lesbian groups emerged. Here, Curator Gillian Murphy introduces the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre in south London. LSE Library holds the Hall-Carpenter Archive, which contains the papers of gay activists and organisations, ephemera […]
Featuring two of LSE’s founders, the Webb portrait hangs above the fireplace in the Shaw Library. Sue Donnelly tells the story of Sidney and Beatrice Webb at Passfield Corner by William Nicholson.
“In the present year Mr and Mrs Sidney Webb keep a joint seventieth birthday and it is proposed to celebrate this event by securing the painting of a […]
On 10 October 1971, Muhammad Ali took to the stage in front of a full house at LSE’s Old Theatre. His trip to London was part of a European and the Middle Eastern boxing tour, but he spoke to the audience at LSE about boxing, Black Power and politics.
This issue of the Beaver, the LSE Students’ Union newspaper, is dated 28 […]
Following her review of Paul Robeson: the artist as revolutionary by Gerald Horne at the LSE Review of Books, Sherese R Taylor introduces the life of Eslanda Robeson, who studied at LSE in the 1930s.
Eslanda Cordozo Goode Robeson, also known as Essie, was an anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, and feminist born in Washington, DC on 15 December 1895. She received a scholarship from […]
Professor Julia Black is LSE’s 2016-17 interim Director and Dame Nemat (Minouche) Shafik will take the reins from September 2017 as the next Director of LSE. Sue Donnelly, LSE Archivist, provides a quick guide to their 14 predecessors.
1895-1903
William Hewins (1865-1931)
LSE’s first Director was an economic historian whose organisational skills saw LSE grow from its beginnings in Adelphi Terrace to […]
A diary entry by Beatrice Webb from April 1886 records her attendance at the first meeting of a fledgling group of social investigators called the Board of Statistical Research. Webb’s neat summary of the object of the committee – “to get a fair picture of the whole of London society – the 4,000,000!” – is a wry (and wary) […]
Lukas Cladders and Ursula Ferdinand share the story of world population specialist Robert René Kuczynski. He joined LSE in the 1930s after fleeing Nazi Germany, and became the first Reader in Demography in a British university in 1938.
Born in 1876 into a family of Jewish bankers in Berlin, Robert René Kuczynski studied economics and law in Freiburg and with the famous […]
LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly writes about this Spring’s archaeological dig on Houghton Street at LSE.
London’s many building sites are the source of frequent disruption and irritation but they also provide opportunities to find out more about the history hidden beneath the buildings and streets. The preparatory works for the Centre Buildings Redevelopment was an opportunity to discover what lies […]
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