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Online catalogue
The following link takes you to the Advanced search facility of the Archives catalogue (search for Social Policy in the Term field to find the main collections relating to this topic): Archives catalogue|. For a list of those collections which have been catalogued to item-level see Completed Catalogues|.
Main collections
LSE Archives holds the papers of academics, public servants and others regarding sociology and social policy, including (reference codes to the documents are in brackets):
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Brian Abel-Smith, 1926-1996, professor of social administration (ABEL-SMITH)
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William Beveridge, 1879-1963
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Thomas Burton Bottomore, 1920-1992, sociologist (BOTTOMORE)
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William John Braithwaite, 1876-1938, civil servant (BRAITHWAITE)
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Morris Ginsberg, 1889-1970, sociologist (GINSBERG)
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Sir Joshua Jebb, 1793-1863, surveyor general of convict prisons: for a handlist see JEBB
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Violet Rosa Markham, 1872-1959, afterwards Carruthers, Liberal activist and public servant (MARKHAM)
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T H Marshall, 1893-1981, sociologist (MARSHALL)
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Mary McIntosh, 1936-, sociologist (MCINTOSH)
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Alfred Morris, 1928-, Baron Morris, politician (MORRIS)
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Beatrice Nancy Seear, 1913-1997, Baroness Seear of Paddington, social scientist and politician (SEEAR)
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Beatrice Serota, 1919-2002, Baroness Serota, politician (SEROTA)
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Richard Titmuss, 1907-1973, professor of social administration (TITMUSS)
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Graham Wallas, 1858-1932, political scientist (WALLAS)
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Beatrice Webb, 1858-1943, social reformer and Sidney Webb, 1859-1947, politician (PASSFIELD)
LSE Archives also holds the institutional papers of organisations relating to sociology and social policy, including:
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Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS)
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British Association for Adoption Fostering (BAAF)
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British Association for Early Childhood Education: for a handlist see BAECE
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British Hospitals Contributory Schemes Association: for a handlist see BHCSA
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British Sociological Association (BSA)
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British Sociological Association, Work, Employment and Society Journal (WES)
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Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)
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Fabian Society (FABIAN SOCIETY)
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National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP)
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Political and Economic Planning; 1931-1978/ Policy Studies Institute 1978 (PEP-PSI)
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Progressive League (PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE)
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Returned Volunteers Association (RVA)
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Women's Industrial Council (WIC)
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Youth Movement Archive (YMA)
We also hold papers of politicians, many of which relate to social policy: see Government and politics|. Also of interest may be our guides to Anthropology|, Industrial Relations| and Lesbian and Gay Archives|.
Rare books
The Nightingale collection| contains works by Florence Nightingale and others on subjects including nursing, public health, hospital administration and military hospitals.
The Jevons collection| contains some sociological pamphlets.
Surveys of economic and social data
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Information on working class living and working conditions and trade unionism was collected by Charles Booth and others for the Survey into Life and Labour in London, 1886-1903: see the Charles Booth Online Archive
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Survey of life and labour in West Ham, 1890-1909 (OUTER LONDON INQUIRY)
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New Survey of London, 1930s (NSOL).
For more information see our Archives of social investigation leaflet| (PDF): To view this PDF file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. This software is already installed on many computers. However, if you do not have it, you may download it for free from the Adobe website|.
LGBT timeline and employment rights exhibition
Two web pages featuring images from the Hall-Carpenter Archives. The timeline| features highlights in UK LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) history since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. The employment rights exhibition| contains images from the archives of some of the groups who fought for improved working conditions for LGBT workers from the 1970s onwards.