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Tales from Houghton Street: an LSE oral history
An oral history project to celebrate LSE’s 120th anniversary, comprising recordings of interviews with alumni and staff who were studying or working at LSE between the 1950s and 2015.

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LSE Public Lectures
The Public Lectures collection comprises recordings of around 1,000 lectures given at LSE between 1990 and 2006.

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Fabian Society and Young Fabians
Digitised items from the Fabian Society and Young Fabians archives, including tracts, minute books and pamphlets.

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The Papers of Lionel Robbins
Diaries written by Lionel Robbins giving an account of the negotiations of the Hot Springs (1943) and Bretton Woods (1944) conferences.
- "Lionel Robbins - the economist and the wider world"
  This exhibition showcases items from the Lionel Robbins Papers held at LSE Library.
- Hot Springs diary, 1943
  This is the diary kept by Lionel Robbins during his time in America in 1943. This includes time in Washington prior to the Hot Springs conference, the Hot Springs conference itself, and time in Washington after the conference.
- Bretton Woods diary, 1944
  This is the diary kept by Lionel Robbins during his time in America in 1944.

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The Women's Library @ LSE
Selected material on women's history from LSE Library and The Women's Library @ LSE.
- Collection timeline
  A chronological presentation of items from the collection.
- Emily Wilding Davison Centenary Exhibition
  Celebrating the life of the suffrage campaigner.
- Rare booksMore information
  Rare books showcasing historical attitudes to women and their position in society.
  - The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women (1615; reprinted 1807) -- Joseph Swetnam
  - Countrey Contentments, or the English Huswife (1623) -- Gervase Markham
  - The Lawe's Resolutions of Women's Rights (1632) -- T. E. (Thomas Edgar?)
  - A Discovery of Six Women Preachers (1641) -- Anonymous
  - A True Copy of the Petition of the Gentle-women & Trades-men Wives in and about the city of London (1642) -- Anonymous
  - The Humble Petition of many Thousands of Wives and Matrons of the city of London (1643) -- Anonymous
  - The Mid-wives' Just Petition (1643) -- Anonymous
  - A Discourse of Women, shewing their Imperfections Alphabetically (1662) -- Jacques Olivier
  - The Queen-Like Closet (1675) -- Hannah Wolley
  - The Woman as Good as the Man, or, the Equality of Both Sexes (1677) -- Francois Poulain de La Barre; A. L. (translator)
  - The Ladies' Dictionary (1694) -- N. H.
  - A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1695) -- Mary Astell
  - All the Histories and Novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn (1718) -- Aphra Behn
  - Woman not Inferior to Man (1739) -- 'Sophia'
  - An Enquiry into [...] the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriages (1753) -- Henry Stebbing; Mary Cooper
  - Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1763) -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  - English Housewifry, exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts (1764) -- Elizabeth Moxon
  - The History of Women (1782), Volume 2 -- William Alexander
  - Evelina (1784), Volume 2, Volume 3 -- Frances Burney
  - The Oeconomy of Charity (1787) -- Sarah Trimmer
  - Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  - Hints for a System of Education for a Female Orphan House (1793) -- Joseph Cooper Walker; Mrs. Peter Latouche
  - Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1798), Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  - The Female Aegis (1798) -- J. Ginger
  - Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799), Volume 2 -- Hannah More
  - The Female Revolutionary Plutarch (1806), Volume 2, Volume 3 -- Stewarton
  - An Inquiry into the Condition of those Women who carry Coals Underground (1812) -- Robert Bald
  - Appeal of one Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions of the other Half, Men (1825) -- William Thompson; Anna Wheeler; Richard Taylor; John Stuart Mill
  - Every Woman's Book; or, What is Love? (1828) -- Richard Carlile
  - The Pageant; or, Pleasure and its Price (1843) -- Francis Edward Paget
  - Biography, Notes, and Political Letters of Frances Wright D'Arusmont (1844) -- Frances Wright
  - The Character of Woman (1848) -- Richard Cobbold
  - Introductory Lectures, delivered at Queen's College, London (1849) -- F. D. Maurice
  - A Room of One's Own (1929) -- Virginia Woolf

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The Beaver
The newspaper of the Student's Union at LSE, coverage from the first issue dated 1949 to 2011/12.

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Poster collections
Social and political posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Political and Tariff Reform Posters View images
  Dating from c1892 to 1910, a collection of British posters by the Conservative and Unionist Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the Liberal Unionist Council and the Tariff Reform League.
- London County Council Election 1907 View images
  Set of posters from the collection of ephemera relating to the London County Council Election of 1907.
- Russian Child Care Posters View images
  Collection of posters and instructions on child care produced in 1930s Soviet Russia.
- British Labour Delegation to Russia View images
  Collection of posters and newspaper pages from a larger set of material collected by a British Labour Delegation to Russia, 1920s-1930s.

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Street Life in LondonView images
Street Life in London (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1877) by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith
- Street Life in London
- Images

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Beatrice Webb's Diaries
Dating from 1869 to 1940s, the manuscript and typescript versions of the diary of Beatrice Webb.
- Manuscript diaries
- Typescript diaries

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