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 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.
Freshers Grand Ball October 1980 - main act was the unknown band U2 in the Quadrangle! We didn't know who they were and weren't impressed so we wandered off to see another band or most likely to the bar.
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.
Econ grad students at LSE dining hall (10/12/1999): Claudia Quintela (Portuguese), Guilherme Fagundes (Brazilian), Alexandre Rocha (Brazilian), Alberto Salvo-Farre (Brazilian), Leonardo Cohen (Brazilian) and Sebastijan Hrovatin (Slovene).
Econ Grad Students near The Castle, Rochester (11/03/2000): Juan Colon Bolea, Alberto Salvo-Farre, Carlos Alexandre Rocha, Fernando Cabello-Astolfi, Ramon Padilla-Perez, Fernando Lelo De Larrea and Xabier Irastorza.
Econ Grad Students, end of course farewell (09/06/2000): Joao Nicolau, Michael Heningsen, Elisa Muzzini, Carlos Alexandre Rocha, Peter Rindfleisch, Athanassios Athanassopoulos, Federica Maiorano, Nicola Curci, Nicolas Leten, Nicolas Echevarria Vilchez and Giuliano De Rossi.
Brazilian grad students at LSE Old Building (28/02/2000): Caio Leonardo Bessa, Lior Pinsky, Alexandre Rocha, Gustavo Cocentino, Debora Visconte, Silvia Naschenveng and Rogerio Teixeira dos Santos.
New Year's eve. 2009. 4 friends chilling out at Nurthemberland Hall before going to see the Fireworks. Kasturi Ghatak from India- M.Sc. Biomedicine, bioscience and Society. Esha Sraboni from Bangladesh- M.Sc. Social Policy. Rajiv Ahmed from Bangladesh, M.Sc. Social Policy. Taslim Hussain Ahmed from Bangladesh. M.Sc. Developmental Studies.
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.