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Pixie Taylor interviewed by Vanessa Pini

This folder includes the recorded audio of the interview along with a transcript of the recording and a photograph of Pixie.
Pixie spent two periods of her life at Greenham. Firstly, when she was 18, she went down on an overnight coach from Dundee and lived at Green Gate from 1985-86. She returned for the 10th birthday in 1991 and lived at Blue Gate until January 1994. She talks about the differences in the eras, evictions and bailiffs, women only spaces, learning to value her body and her time in Holloway. She recalls doing doughnuts in a borrowed car in the base during the American leaving ceremony and reads from a Greenham newsletter documenting leaving Blue Gate. Pixie speaks about how ludicrous it was to have nuclear weapons being driven around the country and how Greenham wouldn't have survived without humour and laughter. She also remembers writing to Greenham at school on Dennis the Menace paper and getting a reply!
Pixie was interviewed by Vanessa Pini in January 2021.

Plastic-free pantry

Submitted by: Dana Ramadan
Date: February 2021
Location: In my kitchen, in my London shared flat in Islington

I finally found the time to start bulk shopping after discovering my local zero-waste stores.

Political Science at the LSE: A History of the Department of Government, from the Webbs to Covid

Submitted by: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Date: Autumn 2019-January 2021

This book began in autumn 2019, and continued throughout the Covid pandemic. It is being published by Ubiquity Press, as an open-source book, with a publication date of about 1st October 2021. It was meant to be part of the School's 125th anniversary celebration and is the first ever history of the LSE Government Department.

The contributors include students at all levels (undergraduate, masters, doctoral), working together with Gordon Bannerman (a British historian who previously studied at LSE) and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey as Head of the Department. Moreover, we wanted to ensure that different perspectives were heard and so along with archival research, we included dozens of interviews with current and former academics, PSS staff, students and alumni. We wanted the history to have many voices, and I think that we have achieved that.

Completing this during Covid posed many challenges. First, we had only two months to conduct the in-person archival work in the library before the first lockdown hit. This posed a major challenge as it made access to the historical archives impossible. Fortunately, the research that had been done, together with on-line research, allowed us to move forward.

A second challenge was that we were all working from various parts of the worldCanada, Kenya, Lebanon, Poland, and different parts of the UK! So, just keeping the focus and momentum going as the pandemic raged throughout the world was quite the task. Somehow, each of us managed to bring our contributions to the volume at different times, as we were each facing our own Covid-related disruptions along the way.

A third challenge was obtaining the interviews as the turmoil of Covid took hold. Here, Skype, Zoom and phone calls made the interviews possible, and in some cases, were more convenient than in-person interviews. The real difficulty was that in spring of 2020, many interviewees were difficult to contact, given the on-going turmoil in everyones lives. But the fact that so many interviewees were willing to take the time for us is a real testament to the strength of feeling that many have towards the Department and the School more generally.

The book itself traces the emergence and evolution of the LSE Government Department from 1895 to 2020, focusing on the personalities that guided the development of the Department, the social and political contexts the Department existed within, its research agenda and course structure, and the location of the Department in British politics. It also charts the evolution of the discipline of political science in Britain itself. The volume is divided chronologically into four chapters, each covering roughly similar time periods in the Departments history and focuses on the events that shaped it: personalities, events, and location. Key themes are the development of political science in Britain, the impact of location on the LSE Government Department, the professionalisation of academia in Britain, and the microcosm the Department presents of British political life during each time period. The conflicts between progressive and conservative forces are a recurring theme which helps link the internal dynamics of the Department with the wider social and political contexts that occurred from the beginning of the School to its 125th anniversary.

Priscilla Abishegam

Personal author: Abishegam, Priscilla

Music Society's Lent Term Concert 2009; performing the aria Vissi d'arte from Act II of Puccini's Tosca

Priscilla Abishegam

Personal author: Abishegam, Priscilla

India Week 2009 on Houghton Street; the International Officer of the Student's Union really wanted to wear a sari and this is a picture of us tying a sari for him.

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meeting, Aug-Dec 2021

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meetings held from August to December 2021, as follows:
31 August 2021
06 September 2021
07 September 2021
13 September 2021
21 September 2021
28 September 2021
12 October 2021
19 October 2021
25 October 2021
02 November 2021
09 November 2021
16 November 2021
23 November 2021
30 November 2021
06 December 2021
07 December 2021
09 December 2021

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meeting, Sept 2017-May 2018

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee (SMC) meetings held from September 2017 to May 2018, as follows:
12 September 2017
20 September 2017
26 September 2017
03 October 2017
10 October 2017
17 October 2017
30 October 2017
07 November 2017
14 November 2017
21 November 2017
28 November 2017
05 December 2017
19 December 2017
09 January 2018
16 January 2018
23 January 2018
30 January 2018
06 February 2018
12 February 2018
20 February 2018
27 February 2018
13 March 2018
17 April 2018
01 May 2018
08 May 2018
15 May 2018
22 May 2018

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meeting, Sept 2018-Jul 2019

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meetings held from September 2018 to July 2019, as follows:
04 September 2018
11 September 2018
25 September 2018
02 October 2018
09 October 2018
16 October 2018
06 November 2018
13 November 2018
20 November 2018
27 November 2018
04 December 2018
11 December 2018
18 December 2018
08 January 2019
15 January 2019
22 January 2019
29 January 2019
05 February 2019
12 February 2019
19 February 2019
26 February 2019
05 March 2019
12 March 2019
19 March 2019
26 March 2019
02 April 2019
09 April 2019
16 April 2019
30 April 2019
07 May 2019
14 May 2019
28 May 2019
04 June 2019
11 June 2019
18 June 2019
02 July 2019
16 July 2019
23 July 2019
30 July 2019

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meeting, Sept 2019-Jul 2020

Public (redacted) minutes of School Management Committee meetings held from September 2019 to July 2020, as follows:
10 September 2019
17 September 2019
24 September 2019
01 October 2019
08 October 2019
22 October 2019
29 October 2019
05 November 2019
12 November 2019
19 November 2019
26 November 2019
03 December 2019
10 December 2019
07 January 2020
14 January 2020
21 January 2020
28 January 2020
04 February 2020
11 February 2020
18 February 2020
25 February 2020
03 March 2020
10 March 2020
17 March 2020
24 March 2020
07 April 2020
21 April 2020
28 April 2020
05 May 2020
12 May 2020
19 May 2020
26 May 2020
02 June 2020
09 June 2020
16 June 2020
23 June 2020
30 June 2020
07 July 2020
21 July 2020
30 July 2020

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