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Congratulations to our alumna Dr Tsai Ing-wen on winning her second term as President of Taiwan! 🇹🇼
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In 1971, Muhammad Ali took to the stage at LSE’s Old Theatre to speak about boxing, Black Power and politics:
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Congratulations to our alumna Annalena Baerbock (LLM Law 2005) for becoming the 🇩🇪 Green's candidate for Chancellor!
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Campus is looking different! ✨
The new Marshall Building, which has been made possible due to philanthropic support from Sir Paul Marshall, will provide arts 🎨 and sports ⚽ facilities as well as more space for our departments, institutes and research centres!🎓
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Some autumnal sunshine falls on Lincoln Inn Fields this afternoon. 🌤️ 🍂
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It's our 125 birthday! 🥳
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How has Houghton Street changed? 🔍
Here we compare an image from the 1950s to 2021!
See the original 1950s image 📷
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Announcing free alumni access to a range of e-journals, selected reference works, data and research methods tools with
@LSELibrary
. 😀 🎉
Continue your research, professional development and lifelong learning here: 💪
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The cherry blossom is out in London. 🌸
Is it blooming where you are? Show us your photos! 🤗
#hanami
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St Clements Clare Market has changed a lot over the years! Here we have merged two photos, one showing the building in 1959 and the other showing the building as it is today.
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We are now ranked 5th best university overall!😀
"These results speak to the continuing work of our academic & professional service staff who are committed to providing a world class education & experience for our students."
We're up 14 places in the Guardian's Best UK Universities 2021 league table. 🥳
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Last night Minouche Shafik awarded Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala an honorary degree in Economics! 🎉
Ngozi has worked at the
@WorldBank
, and as Nigeria's Finance Minister. She now leads the
@wto
where she is working on an open and equitable international trading system.
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Housing trends mean that it now takes around 19 years for young people to save for a house. In the 80s, it took just two.
#generationrent
#millenials
#GenZ
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Throwback to a sunny day in 1985. 😎
Do we have anyone who was here in the 80s? Share your memories below!
#ThrowbackThursday
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Today we took a quick peek of the view from the 10th floor of the Centre Building! 😀
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Beautiful colourised version of this image from
@LSELibrary
's suffragette collection!
(Colorized by me) British suffragette and women's rights activist Rosa May Billinghurst.
Rosa, who had polio as a child, relied on an adapted tricycle to move around and was famous for using it to charge police officers during protests.
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In the lead up to Christmas, we are sharing some festive photos from across campus and London! 🎄✨
First up is our library plaza!
#PartofLSE
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Our fourth
#WomensHistoryMonth
themed
#ThrowbackThursday
explores the happenings of Black Friday in 1910. ⬇
“Once again has the Women’s Social and Political Union demonstrated all that it is prepared to do and suffer in the Cause of freedom.”
Jus Suffragi, December 1910
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Congratulations to the alumni featuring in this year's Forbes 30 under 30! 👏
Find out who our rising stars are here ➡️
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London has been receiving some rare snowy weather! ❄️
📷 Taken in Burgess Park, South London
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Today's first lockdown book recommendation comes from Aroosa Khan (BSc Policy and Criminology 2012)!
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀
"For a long time, I was convinced that fiction novels did not have the same power over me as non-fiction...
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Still No.1 in Europe. ☺️🏆
"Retaining our position as the number one university for social sciences in Europe is a tremendous recognition of the hard work of everyone at LSE."
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Congratulations Class of 2020! 🎉
Alumnus Alvin Carpio shares his message for you, our new LSE alumni. ❤️
#LSEgraduation
#20for20
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On 19 February 1898, LSE had it's first annual dinner at Restaurant Frascati on Oxford Street. 🍽️
To get an idea of what might have been on the menu, here is a selection of the restaurant's dishes as listed by The Era in November 1892. ⬇️
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The LSE plaza on a sunny afternoon. 😎
Where was your favourite sun spot on campus?
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Wishing all our alumni, friends and supporters who are celebrating today a very merry Christmas! ⭐
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A view from the top of the stairs at our new Marshall Building! 🌪️
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A glimpse of London, just one year before the Old Building at LSE opened!
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This
#WomensHistoryMonth
we are throwing back to the suffragette era using our
@LSELibrary
women's collections. ⬇
On 20 May 1927 a wreath laying ceremony was held at the John Stuart Mill statue in the Victoria Embankment Gardens on the 121st anniversary of his birth.
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#ThrowbackThursday
to 1986 when a young master's student met HRH Princess Anne on her visit to the School as Chancellor of
@LondonU
. 33 years later, that student is now Director of LSE! 🙌
Read about Dame Minouche Shafik's student memories of LSE here 👉
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Listen to the
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
discuss his vision and plans for London's future development
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"What we’ve learned is, it doesn’t trickle down"
LSE Director Minouche Shafik talks to
@TIME
about why she thinks we need a new social contract and an end to trickle down economics.
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The leaves are turning in London. 🍂
Where are your favourite autumn walks in the city?
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Want to pick up your alumni goodies? 🛍️ Take a photo in our photo booth?💃📸 Find us at the new Alumni Centre! Directions below 🚶♀️🚶♂️👇
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Did you know that a single legacy gift founded LSE? On the anniversary of the day we first opened our doors in 1895, we hear from Charles Stafford, one of our legacy supporters. ❤️
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"I was very concerned by the situation and wanted to help as much as I could. I found out that St Mary’s 🏥 was looking for volunteers and so I signed up. 🖋
My work at St Mary’s is focused on logistics, and organising staff lunch time 🍽. We’re also in charge of a free shop...
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Founded in 1949, The Beaver his one of the oldest student newspapers in the UK. If you miss reading it just take a look at their online edition! 👉
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Watch our Director Minouche Shafik turn on the campus Christmas lights this afternoon! ✨🎄
#PartOfLSE
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Here's a throwback to the Old Curiosity Shop in 1919!
Now this is quite something! It is a very rare, original colour photograph, taken 101 years ago, of the Old Curiosity Shop at 13–14 Portsmouth Street in Holborn. The scene was captured using the autochrome colour process on Wednesday 3rd September 1919. 😍
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Today's dose of
#LondonChristmas
✨ comes from the entrance to the Royal Exchange at Bank Junction.
The exchange was founded in 1571 by Queen Elizabeth I to be a centre of commerce. The current building is the third iteration and was opened by Queen Victoria in 1844.
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📢 Alumni!
We would like to hear your lock-down book recommendations.
To have your book featured on social media, email:
📩 alumni
@lse
.ac.uk 📩
Title and author
Short paragraph on why you recommend it
A picture, if you have it, of your book (or you with the book!)
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Congratulations to everyone who graduated this week! ☺️
We are delighted to welcome you to the LSE alumni community. 🤗
#LSEGraduation
#PartOfLSE
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On the newly pedestrianised Strand!
Not sure how the designers resisted making them look like Daleks.
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"These books are ideal for days when you think there is no meaning in life, but you want to fill the emptiness." 🕳💫
@LSEfinance
student Zalan Cseresznyes recommends books by Hungarian author Faludy and Russian authors Tolstoy, Dostoevsky & Bulgakov for lockdown reading. 🇭🇺 🇷🇺
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Women in elite occupations from working class backgrounds face a double pay penalty. Read more about research by
@SamFriedmanSoc
and
@Daniel_Laurison
on the
#ClassCeiling
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Alumna Felicia Odamtten talks about her career in economics and what inspired her to set up the Black Economists Network in our latest alumni spotlight. 🔦
Read Felicia's full story ➡️
#PartofLSE
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Want to know the state of the States?
@LSE_US
shows us how to use their award-winning online resource.
The State of the States was funded by our Regular Giving programme - thank you to our donors for your support! 🙏
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Alumna Florence Waller-Carr
@LSE_WPS
wanted to help during the
#COVID19
pandemic. 🙌
She set up
@WhatCanWeDo7
- a website that collates volunteering opportunities for those wanting to make a difference. 👍
Read her story ➡️
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
🦸♀️
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The first signs of spring are appearing in London! 🌱
📸 Victoria Park
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In 1954 Regent Street kicked off London's tradition of Christmas lights, hoping to make the post-war city less 'drab'.
This year's lights hark back to that first year when trumpeting angels decorated the street. 📯
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'Much of what I learnt here at LSE I have put into practice as a govt leader. History will tell how successful I've been'
#LSEColombia
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This
#ThrowbackThursday
we've merged a photo of the Old Building taken today with an image from the 70s.
Tell us what differences you notice! 😀
#partofLSE
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Another alumni reading recommendation for lockdown!
Thank you Thabi! ☺️
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If you are already working, please consider volunteering in your spare time. It's important that we invest in our communities and the people who live in it."
Rabia Nasimi (MSc Sociology 2016)
Find out more about our Global Day of Volunteering ➡️
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Read about
@LSEsociology
alumna
@RabiaNasimi
’s work supporting refugees and asylum seekers, and her own experience of being a child refugee.
#LSEwomen
#WorldRefugeeDay
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"The free market has acquired the status that religion once enjoyed, treated as self-evident and inevitable."
Has the free market become a religious belief? 🙏
@LSE_RGS
discusses. ⬇️
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Thank you to all our alumni who came on today's campus tour! ❤️
We hoped you enjoyed revisiting campus and meeting the LSE bees. 🐝
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"We met through LSE’s Programme for African Leadership which was created to empower a new generation of ethical, effective and authentic African leaders. 🌍 💪🏿
We have been friends ever since then...😊🏿
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Alumna
@busayo_twins
entered The Circle last night. Find out why she will be presenting to other players as a middle class white man called Josh.👇👀
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LSE is ranked in the top 25 universities in the world in the latest THE World University Rankings
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@RabiaNasimi
arrived in the UK at the age of five with her family, fleeing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Read about her journey story, her work with
@A_CAA
to support refugee integration and her future plans
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Emmet Soldati (MSc Sociology 2011) runs an LGBT+ friendly cafe
@TeatotallerTea
in New Hampshire. 🏳️🌈
Here he explains how he has pivoted his business due to
#COVID19
. ↪️
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Graduates! Remember to pick up your alumni goodies and take a photo in our photo booth! 📸 You can find us at the new Alumni Centre on Houghton Street. Follow us below for directions. 👇
#LSEgraduation
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“If girls in the most marginalised communities are educated, they will have the potential to improve their lives and lift their families out of poverty”
Meet
@safeenahusain
, founder of
@educate_girls
and this week’s Inspiring Woman of LSE.
#LSEWomen
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"Hi there! ✨
I’m a MSc student at LSE and I’m doing lockdown in a small student accommodation here in London. 🏙
It’s hard times for all of us, so I’m trying to lift people up by organising free dance classes 💃 💃🏻 and guitar lives 🎸 through my insta account...
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Our Marshall Building has won LSE a "World's Most Beautiful Campuses" award, according to Prix Versailles, the World Architecture and Design Award at UNESCO! 😃
Browse the winners:
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Our next lockdown book recommendation is from Agha Salik Ahmed Khan (BSC Economics 1997)
𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀.
The book talks about modern economies, their dynamism and how innovations must be encouraged at the bottom of the pyramid...
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Graduation ceremonies are under way on campus, does it bring back any memories?
#LSEGraduation
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This week's
#ThrowbackThursday
shows the corner of Houghton Street and Clare Market in the 1930s, the late 20th century and November 2019!
Back in the 1930s, this was the original site of the Three Tuns bar. The latest incarnation of which can be found at
@lsesu
.🍺
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How far can you travel from London, on public transport, in 24 hours? 🚌
Alumnus Jo Kibble (
@politic_animal
) decided to find out. 🕵️
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No.1 in London for the twelfth consecutive year. 💪 😎
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Alumni Centre Opening Hours week commencing 19/12! ❄️
Monday: LSE Graduations only
9:30am – 5:30pm
Tuesday: LSE Graduations only
9:30am – 5:30pm
Wednesday: LSE Graduations only
9:30am – 5:30pm
Thursday: LSE Graduations only
9:30am – 5:30pm
Friday: 9:00am – 3:00pm
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Preparations were underway today for
#LSEFestival
next week! 👷 🛠️
Find out everything we have on for alumni next week! 😃
➡️
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"While I am sad to leave LSE, I remain a committed alumna and lifelong friend of the School."
We are sorry to see Minouche Shafik leave as our President and Vice Chancellor, but delighted that she spent her last day the same way she started, speaking to our alumni volunteers! ❤️
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With the potential to be both Intrusive and abusive,
@Livingstone_S
argues that child tracking apps aren't always the best solution.
#dataprivacy
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LSE alum Michael Martins introducing the panel “what it’s really like working at the the US State Department” to recent grads and current students tonight at the brand new alumni centre.
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