Charles Booth’s enquiry (1886-1903) was a ground-breaking social investigation into late-Victorian London. The enquiry’s most famous outputs are the poverty maps which showed street-by-street levels of wealth and poverty. LSE Library holds Booth’s original notebooks and 2nd edition maps which formed the basis for his publication, 'Life and Labour of the People in London'.

This collection includes the recordings of 16 interviews carried out to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020. For the occasion, the Women's Resource Centre (WRC) ran a project called 'Sisters Doing It For Themselves', funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to create a unique oral history archive documenting the testimonies of current and past leaders.

The Women’s Voluntary and Community Sector (WVCS) grew out of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). The contribution of the WVCS in advancing women’s rights is largely undocumented. Many of the women who were involved in setting up women’s organisations and campaigning for change are now in their late 50s and 60s. Their struggles and achievements have remained largely invisible.

This archive illustrates the impact that the WVCS has had on the structural position of women, through campaigning and influencing. The archive will also provide insight into the impact on the lives of the women themselves as drivers of the movement.

The following women have been interviewed:
Rosalind Bragg - Maternity Action
Lee Eggleston OBE & Sheila Coates MBE - Rape Crisis
Sarbjit Ganger - Asian Women's Resource Centre
Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith - Healing Solidarity International Feminist Collective
Carolina Gottardo - Latin American Women's Rights
Vivienne Hayes MBE - Women's Resource Centre
Joyce Kallevik - WISH
Ranjit Kaur - Activist & Campaigner
Professor Liz Kelly - Child and Woman Abuse Studies, LMU
Marai Larasi MBE
Naana Otoo-Oyortey MBE - FORWARD
Pragna Patel - Southall Black Sisters
Mary-Ann Stephenson - Women's Budget Group
Dr Akima Thomas OBE - Women and Girls Network

The portraits of interviewees that accompany the interview recordings were taken by photographer Oluwatosin Wasi Daniju.

For more information, explore the project page.

This collection includes born-digital ephemera and other material collected by the LSE Library which relates to elections in the United Kingdom.
The first two series consist of candidate manifestos for the main political parties as well as minor and independent parties, and voter guides from the London Mayor Elections in 2016 and 2021.

Political parties represented inlude:
Conservative Party
Green Party of England and Wales
British National Party (BNP)
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Women's Equality Party (WEP)
UK Independence Party (UKIP)

Personal author: Icharia, Beatrice

1993 - graduation day

Personal author: Chaudhary, Aparna

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Personal author: Bruvere, Anna

September 2020 At the Globe, coming to campus for the first time

Personal author: Khan, Anisa

LSE Kabaddi Championships 2020

Personal author: Grant, Andrew

Photograph from page 2 of the Sunday Times in 1989. We formed a campaign for degrees in order to bring an end to dispute dispute between the government and the Association of university teachers which threatened to disrupt the setting and marking of exams in that year. I am at the front in glasses. Also featured in the photograph in the background on the right is Michiel van Hulton he went on to become a Dutch MEP and leader of the Dutch Labour Party. I studied monetary economics between 1986 and 1999 and Chris Pissarides was my tutor.

Personal author: de la Torre, Andres Gomez

MSc Regulation - Class 2002/03

Personal author: Subramoni, Adithya

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As part of our 125th anniversary celebrations in the 2020/21 academic year, we asked the LSE community to get in touch and share their photos and memories.
Students, alumni and LSE staff members were all invited to make a permanent contribution to the history of the School, for our Digital Library.
This collection spans multiple decades and features photographs from our community, showcasing personal milestones as well as important cultural moments at LSE.

This is a selection of posters from The Women's Library covering the themes of women's peace campaigning, women and violence and some posters from other organisations and events, mainly dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Our collection of See Red Women's Workshop posters has also been digitised.

This collection includes the born-digital records of The Women's Resource Centre (WRC). The first series consists of material relating to 'Sisters Doing it for Themselves', a project run by WRC to mark the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020.

This collection contains born-digital records created by ORG, mainly research outputs produced as part of the Sustainable Security, Strategic Peacebuilding, and Remote Warfare programmes, as well as ORG newsletters and blog articles from external contributors. Also included are podcasts and recordings of panel discussions. The majority of this material was downloaded from the ORG website and transferred to LSE Library when the organisation was wound down. The collection also includes some annual accounts and impact reports (a fuller set of annual reports is available in the ORG analogue collection).

This set of pamphlets are drawn from The Women’s Library and related collections at LSE Library and they document women’s rights and their engagement in politics and public life from 1918-1940. These titles evidence the ideas and activities of women’s organisations, individual campaigners, reformers and women in public life. Also included are perspectives of politicians, governments, and intergovernmental organisations, as they responded (or failed to respond) to issues raised by advocates of women’s equality and rights.
The digitisation of these pamphlets was undertaken in partnership with Jisc in 2019 as part of the Digitising Social Movements of the 20th Century project: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/digitising-20th-century-social-movements

This collection draws on the archives of Louisa Garrett Anderson (7LGA) and of Nina Last (7NLA) which relate to Endell Street Military Hospital.
In August 1914, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray founded the Women’s Hospital Corps under the auspices of the French Red Cross. Louisa was chief surgeon. They established a hospital in the Hotel Claridge in Paris which ran from September 1914 to January 1915. In November 1914, they were asked to open a second hospital at Wimereux under the Royal Army Medicine Corps (RAMC), which ran until early 1915. They were then offered hospital premises in London, so closed both hospitals in France, and returned to England. The Endell Street Military Hospital was the first hospital in the UK run by women for men. It opened in May 1915 until December 1919, treating over 26,000 patients, 24,000 of them male.

This collection contains:

• letters regarding the Women’s Hospital Corps from Louisa Garrett Anderson to her family (mainly to her mother, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson);
• a notebook by orderly Nina Last covering her work at Endell Street Military Hospital;
• scrapbook relating to Endell Street Military Hospital compiled by Flora Murray for 1916;
• photographs of the hospitals and image of an embroidered shoe bag.

The collection includes the born-digital records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section (WILPF).

The first series of records consists of oral histories recorded as part of a project called 'These Dangerous Women', to mark the 100th anniversary of WILPF.

The Peace and Internationalism collections focus on the work of activists and organisations working towards global peace. This digital collection focuses on peace in the interwar period, and includes meeting minutes, pamphlets, posters and other selected material from the League of Nations Union, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

This sub-series contains recordings and transcripts of the interview. Mary Alys was the longest-serving member of WILPF UK until 2013, when she passed away. She left behind recordings of her time and experiences at WILPF. These were recorded during the last weeks of her life. She had kidney cancer, diagnosed in August 2012. She had attended the WILPF Congress in Costa Rica in July 2011 as the UK delegation lead, and was previously an International Board member for the UK serving, on and off, on the UK WILPF Executive. She died on 18th May 2013 after joining WILPF, in Worthing, Sussex on 24th May 1982.

The interviewer, Lorraine Mirham, was a Leicester WILPF member, and previously a Worthing member during the 1980s.