Events

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 […]

The Hellenic Observatory, located in LSE’s European Institute, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. Kevin Featherstone looks back at its story so far.

In the mid-1990s, a campaign was launched to establish a Chair on Contemporary Greece that was neither concerned with the ancient or classical past, nor the arts and humanities. LSE would champion the study of contemporary Greek society, politics […]

Indy Bhullar, LSE Library, shares the story of the women behind Charles Booth’s Survey of London. Posts about LSE’s Library explore the history of the Library and its collections.

At LSE, we’re fortunate to have a fascinating collection of material from what is often referred to as the Charles Booth Survey of London. This survey and all the laboriously collected data which […]

LSE’s first double Master’s programme at 15 years old

On November 30 2015 LSE’ s oldest and largest double programme, MSc in Global Media and Communications, celebrated its 15th anniversary. Over 100 alumni, students and colleagues attended the seminar in the Shaw Library and the festive dinner at the Senior Common Room. Professor Craig Calhoun introduced the event, Professor Terhi Rantanen […]

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see the ‘Foundations: LSE and the Science of Society’ exhibition in the LSE Library Exhibition Space. It is a great introduction to the history of LSE’s foundation, from concept to realisation.  It also details some of the personal achievements of notable individuals such as Malinowski and Beveridge. Open until Saturday 19 December 2015,  admission to the exhibition […]

LSE Cities researcher Harry Blain shares the story of the Urban Age Programme, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015.

Although more than half the global population is now urban dwelling, we are still a long way from resolving some of the major challenges and contradictions of life in the city. Indeed, Alexis de Tocqueville’s comments on Manchester in 1835 […]

In 1953 LSE replaced its original war memorial with a new memorial containing the rolls of honour for both the First World War and the Second World War. Designed by the School architect R C White-Cooper with the names incised on a single piece of oak. Today the memorial remains in the Old Building in the corridor alongside the […]

LSE Library is opening a new exhibition to share even more of the amazing stories we have within our archives and special collections. Foundations: LSE and the Science of Society celebrates the achievements of LSE staff and students and investigates the innovative founding principles of the School. Perfect in size for a lunch hour visit, come along and discover how and why LSE was […]

On 11 February 1965 LSE’s Old Theatre was packed to listen to Malcolm X; on 21 February he was murdered while preparing to address a meeting of the Organisation for Afro-American Unity in New York.

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska. After a difficult and disrupted childhood Malcolm X joined the controversial black supremacist movement the Nation of […]

What links Denis Diderot, the Guardian’s political cartoons, Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Paths of Glory’ and the work of Henry and William James? LSE’s Space for Thought Literary Festival, now in its seventh year. Festival organiser Louise Gaskell looks back at why LSE established the Literary Festival and at the evolution of this annual event.

The Festival provides a forum for reflection, discussion and analysis […]

Back in 2012, when planning got underway for LSE Research Festival 2013, it was suggested that a public exhibition of multi-media works by researchers be staged. It was a bold ambition, and one that raised some anxieties as well as excitement. Would researchers have the time (and inclination) to produce films, posters and photographs about their work? Would the […]

The LSE war memorial hangs alongside the Old Theatre in Old Building and lists the names of 70 staff and students who lost their lives in the First World War. Seventy lives telling seventy stories.

Between 1914 and 1918 the School Governors received regular reports of staff and students who had enlisted, received honours and medals, been wounded, taken prison, […]

‘The Students’ Union is anxious to commemorate those students of the School who fell in the Great War, and propose in the first place to erect a memorial table bearing their names, and in the second place, if funds permit, to establish a prize or scholarship in connection with the School.’

So began a circular letter sent in March 1921 […]

On the eve of the First World War, in the academic year 1913/14, 1,681 students were enrolled at the School. Many came from overseas, and 583 were women. LSE was well established as a small, niche college of the University of London, specialising in social science research and in evening and vocational education. Among its vocational students were over […]

LSE expertise is transported from Houghton Street around the world by LSE Enterprise’s consultancy and custom executive education programmes. As the company celebrates its 20th birthday, Rehanna Neky revisits its innovative beginnings.

At the start of the 1990s, several science and engineering based universities were setting up companies to commercialise their research findings. As LSE’s director John Ashworth began discussions […]

LSE has hosted some of the world’s most high profile statesmen and women, but two of the most memorable in recent years visited the School on consecutive days in June 2012: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama.

Not many universities can boast visits from two Nobel Peace Prize winners in two days so, although it involved a huge […]