This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Norman Biggs, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 19/08/2015
Duration of interview: 00:45:41
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1988-2006 Professor of Mathematics. 2006 Emeritus Professor of Mathematics`

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Paul Rock, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 29/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:49:27
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: Department of Sociology, Emeritus Professor of Social Institutions, Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Richard Jackman, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 05/08/2015
Duration of interview: 00:56:14
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: joined in 1968, Department of Economics. 1997 Professor of Economics

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Richard Layard, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 31/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:38:55
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1965-67 MSc Econ. 1964 Higher Education Research Unit, Centre for Labour Economics, Centre for Economic Performance. 1999 Emeritus Professor Economics. 2000 Honorary Fellow. 2003 Director, Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Robert Weinberg, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Sue Donnelly
Date of interview: 17/06/2015
Duration of interview: 00:28:10
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1955 BSc Econ, 1960 PhD Econ

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Sajda Qureshi, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 11/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:21:46
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1989 Diploma in Management of Information Systems, 1991 MSc Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, 1995 PhD Information Systems

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Sandra Cook, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 11/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:21:47
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1978 Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems; 1978-79 Research Officer

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Scott Benowitz, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Tom Sturdy
Date of interview: 10/07/2015
Duration of interview: 00:19:14
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: alumni, 2004 MSc Comparative Politics

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Simeon Underwood, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 10/06/2015
Duration of interview: 00:43:47
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 2004-2015, Academic Registrar

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Sonia Livingstone, along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Clara Cook
Date of interview: 19/08/2015
Duration of interview: 00:35:01
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications

This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Wendy Weinberg (Yates), along with a summary of the recording.
Interviewer: Sue Donnelly
Date of interview: 17/06/2015
Duration of interview: 00:19:59
Relationship of interviewee with LSE: 1956 BSc Econ

This file includes an introductory podcast, featuring excerpts from the interviews with alumni Carol Wain (1967), Brian Van Arkadie (1956) and Mary Evans (1967/1968, LSE Centennial Professor, Gender Institute).

Submitted by: Devika Hovell
Date: July 2020
Location: At home in Australia

This photo was taken by my husband after we relocated to Australia and will always remind me of the challenge of writing during Covid. Due to home-schooling and nurseries being closed from time to time, pushing ahead with writing projects was often done in the company of children...who were not always entirely respectful of the tools of the research trade!

Submitted by: Beatriz Tiago Fernandes Marques Da Silva
Date: March 2021
Location: At home in London

Grimshaw [LSE's oldest student society, supported by the International Relations Department but open to students of any subject with an interest in international affairs] held an online event on the Western Sahara conflict on the 5th of March with three speakers. The event was very popular and an opportunity to continue to host insightful conversations within our community at LSE despite the pandemic.

Submitted by: Beatriz Tiago Fernandes Marques Da Silva
Date: 31 March 2021
Location: LSE Library

Despite the academic year having been incredibly difficult for our student newspaper The Beaver, the features team still met every week to share our ideas for articles and enjoy some time venting about how busy our week had been so far. Our last meeting felt bittersweet as some of our friends in the team were graduating soon without us having properly hang out in person all together. I still could not be prouder of our team effort. We made memories over Zoom that won't be easily forgotten.

Submitted by: Grammateia Kotsialou
Date: May 2020
Location: Gunnersbury Park, London

The lockdown period awakened a creative part of me, a passion for photography. During a lockdown 'exercise' walk with my husband, I saw this spot and tried to capture as much as possible of this beauty.

This collection includes material about LSE community and its history, created or collected by members of the community, including LSE alumni, students and staff. The first two series contain photos and interviews produced as a result of projects run to mark two important LSE anniversaries - 120 and 125 years since the foundation of LSE in 1895.

This collection includes the digital records of LSE School Management Committee (SMC), including minutes and papers of SMC meetings. The first series consists of the public (redacted) minutes of SMC meetings held between 2017 and 2021. More information on the committee is available from the LSE SMC page.

Submitted by: Avanes Khachaturov
Date: 17 March 2021
Location: Red Lion Square, London

With physical lectures being cancelled and all classes moving online by December 2020, I found that I had much more time to explore lunch options around campus. Before, my typical day involved rushing from one lecture hall or classroom to another, with studying in the Library in between, and hence I was limited by how far from campus I could venture out.

Most of the fast causal restaurants dotting Kingsway that specialized in providing food were closed the previous year, with primarily coffee chains remaining open for take away, offering only small sandwiches and toasties as lunch options. On the other hand, Lamb's Conduit Passage and Red Lion Street, which runs parallel to Red Lion Square, offered many small and cheap eateries of various cuisines, from Korean to Malaysian to British classics, which I only found the time to try out now that all of my studies were online and not tied to campus.

The picture taken was during one such lunch time, a relatively warm day for the weather that month, with the benches lining the park offering excellent places to sit back, enjoy a warm meal, and either listen to music or a podcast, or to just take in the sounds around you.

Submitted by: Rachael Maguire
Date: February 2021 and April 2021
Location: Near Lincoln's Inn Fields

I had to go into the dentist and took the photos to show colleagues how the Marshall Building was progressing.

Submitted by: Grace Oswald
Date: February 2021
Location: Queen's Hospital, Romford

I usually work part time as a Healthcare Assistant in the Emergency Department. This photo was taken during my first ITU shift earlier this year- it was a night shift and I was already nervous to be working in a new area. I had the fright of my life (and actually screamed) when I switched on the light in the store room and found this disfigured hospital training doll. It was very funny and certainly made my new team laugh. I think it has now become a running joke to play on new staff- she seems to pop up everywhere!

Submitted by: Sarah Jewett
Date: 30 May 2020
Location: Sainsbury's (now closed), 71 High Holborn

I was walking for exercise around London from Rosebery Hall towards LSE in late May and was struck by this graffiti mural by Bowen and Blackmore (London street artists) on the boarded up Sainsbury's close to campus. It marked a point in the pandemic in which many sought to highlight the importance of key workers just about two months after the lockdown began and restrictions were soon to be eased up a bit. The woman in the photo was one of very few people I came across.

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.

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.

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 (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 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 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