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Learning & engagement @LSELibrary
- learning, #infolit, cultural heritage, archives, public engagement https://lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on
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📆Thu 4 Dec 4-6pm The Brontës in London Historian @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social shares the fascinating story of the family's relationship with London - the city of ‘wonders’ they regarded as a thrilling Babylon.
@fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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The Brontës in London
Join us for a deep dive into the Brontë sisters' lives and works, exploring their London connections.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Still time to book for 1.5 days of legal moments that (didn't) change everything.
From property law to criminal, interregnum Scotland to Canadian land rights.
Freee, online - full programme at the link below.
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.

20-21 November, online, free.

Programme and booking at the link.
Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action."

— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist

The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess.

➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Brilliant to see these newly digitised collections of the Gay Liberation Front from the Library's Hall-Carpenter archives available to all.
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: LSE Library

More details here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.

🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Hello Bluesky!

We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities.

Find out more about our history and our work here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Last few days to see the SOAS Gallery exhibit on the Constitution of India. Don't miss it! Ends 20 September. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
After the Assembly: Constituting India
‘After the Assembly: Constituting India’ commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, the longest living constitution in the global South.
www.soas.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Still considering your research with our unique collections? Submit your applications for a @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship by 22 Sept.
We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections.
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
www.lse.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Thank you @soasuni.bsky.social for the chance to view the excellent new exhibition, After the Assembly: Constituting India commemorating 75 years of the Indian Constitution, the longest living constitution in the global South. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
After the Assembly: Constituting India
‘After the Assembly: Constituting India’ commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, the longest living constitution in the global South.
www.soas.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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It’s fifty years since the United Nations noticed that women exist in the world, and there’s an exhibition at the LSE Library looking back at the impact of 1975, the Year of Women.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exh...
Exhibition explores the UN’s decade for women at the LSE Library
It’s fifty years since the United Nations noticed that women exist in the world, and there’s an exhibition at the LSE Library looking back at the impact of 1975, the Year of Women.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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"The story of abolition is often told from a British perspective.

Enslaved people themselves, the protests, the revolts they led also helped to shift opinion and momentum towards abolition."

Q&A with Imaobong Umoren @lsehy.bsky.social on her book, Empire without End @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
A new history of Britain and the Caribbean – Interview with Imaobong Umoren - LSE Review of Books
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Imaobong Umoren discusses her new book, Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean. From the first arrival…
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June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Today!

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?

Find out at the Women's Library, LSE 4-6pm

+ leaf through feminist magazines from the 70s-80s

free tickets below >>

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Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?
Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room
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May 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Thur 27/3 Change to event! Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Sheila Rowbotham will not be speaking at the Women's History Month Open Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social We will have items from the fascinating Women's Library collections on display from 5-7pm. www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
Women's history month: open archives + talk
Join us for this archives drop-in session where you'll be able to get up close to some treasures from our archives.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So good to see it go live. I can see myself getting distracted exploring it...
We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
March 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thank you Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social for a brilliant and revealing talk @lselibrary.bsky.social on women in international relations and their erased history.
Read more:
press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...
Patricia Owens on Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary fie...
press.princeton.edu
March 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you can, do head to Cardiff to celebrate 20 years of LILAC. Having been part of planning the first LILAC at Imperial and lucky to attend for several years, I assure you it will be worth it.. and so much fun. @jsecker.bsky.social
There’s still time to book your place for #LILAC25 Join us in Cardiff & help celebrate 20 years of the #infolit conference.

If you’re still undecided, take a look at our amazing draft programme. We know you’ll want to join us! Bookings close on Friday 21 March.
LILAC
LILAC is an annual conference covering all aspects of information literacy and is a firm favourite in the calendar of information professionals. The conference is brimming with new ideas, innovative…
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March 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking forward to Prof. Patricia Owens discussing her new book - Wed 12 Mar from 6pm - followed by reception and a chance to buy the book. www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
March 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Our new exhibition ‘Suffragettes, Stereotypes, Voices and Votes’ features sources on the Suffragette movement and women’s changing role in society from the 1920s to the present day

Open for one week only!

Unable to visit? See our online sources & resources at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
February 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We are buzzing to launch our very own @asiyaislam.bsky.social‘s brand new book ‘A Woman’s Job‘ next week! 😍

Join us for a lively conversation on the place and politics of woman’s workforce participation in urban India with amazing guests including @shirinmrai.bsky.social!

Tickets at link in bio!
January 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Our winter term programme of free public events for all get underway tonight at 6pm with Prof. Martin Shaw in person on his new book examining the history of "The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament" www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/lse-librar...
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LSE Library
The British Library of Political and Economic Science (@LSELibrary) was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Buil...
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January 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Loved the new exhibition 'Stories of Migration' from @soasuni.bsky.social Gallery - the films from Positive Negatives based on research are very powerful. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Stories of Migration
Stories of Migration celebrates 12 years of innovative storytelling from SOAS-based, not-for-profit organisation, PositiveNegatives.
www.soas.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM