Welcome to LSE Archives. The collections held in the archives cover modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to economics and social anthropology, and the history of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The material dates mainly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present day. The department is also responsible for the Library's rare books| and older pamphlets|.
Admission to the Archives Reading Room|
Restricted access to the Library during examination period.
During LSE's examination period, 2 April to 6 June 2012, there will be restricted access to the Library for external visitors, including visitors with cards issued prior to 2 April.
Academic staff and research degree students of the SCONUL Access, University of London and M25 reciprocal schemes will be able to access the Library as usual, but other external visitors who wish to consult archives or rare books should contact us directly to arrange special access.
Other news
Find out what we've catalogued on our completed catalogues| page.
For latest news about our collections and activities take a look at our blog. Out of the box|. These are the most recent posts: British Political and Tariff Reform Posters
House of Lords reform, a shrinking Armed Forces, pension unrest and increasing food prices…
You could be forgiven for thinking we were talking about news topics from the weekend papers, but honestly we aren’t. These were just some of the issues being battled over by politicians in the most recent collection to go into the [...]
New Online Resource: Working Classes Cost of Living Committee papers
Thanks to a grant from The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust we have recently been able to digitise and have some conservation work done on the working papers of the Working Classes Cost of Living Committee. The whole collection is now available online to view as PDF files (COLL MISC/1195) and the physical copies are newly bound [...]
New catalogues available
For the last two weeks Emma Howgill has been busy cataloguing three collections here at LSE as part of her UCL archives course. The results of her labours are now available on the online archives catalogue.
The first collection to be catalogued was the archive of Lord Douglas of Barloch. Francis Campbell Ross Douglas (1889-1980) was born in Manitoba, [...]
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