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Contributor(s): Martin Tomkinson, Mary Evans, Ted Parker, Guatam Appa | During the closing years of the 1960s, a series of student protests erupted at LSE. Against a backdrop of international unrest and rapid social change, the sit-ins and occupations became headline news. Several students were arrested, others banned from the premises, riot doors were installed, and an LSE porter lost his life. Here are recollections of those events from some of those who were there.

Contributor(s): Dame Minouche Shafik | In the centenary year of the first votes for women in the UK, LSE's Towers buildings on Clement's Inn are being renamed after three leading campaigners from the women's suffrage movement. Find out more with LSE Director Minouche Shafik.

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix, Dr Paul Stock, Professor Peter Trubowitz, Baroness Amos, Professor Fawaz Gerges, Professor Michael Jacobs, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Professor Robyn Eckersley, President Juan Manuel Santos | LSE was founded with the aim of understanding the causes of things and for the betterment of society. This ideal is still at the heart of LSE and we know whatever new challenges 2017 brings, our students will be prepared for bright futures in world-changing roles.

Contributor(s): LSE | This film celebrates LSE in 2015. What does 2016 hold for all of us?

Contributor(s): Salma Raheem, Professor Linda Mulchahy, Maria Carvalho, Louisa Green | A new PhD Academy opened at LSE provides doctoral students with a specially designed space that includes a common room, a teaching room and central services all in one location for the first time in the School’s 120-year history.

Contributor(s): Rod McAllister, William Pine, Julian Robinson, Tracy Meller, Lord Rogers, Ivan Harbour | A film about the LSE Centre Buildings Redevelopment, the largest ever building project LSE has commissioned in its 120 year history.

Contributor(s): Sue Donnelly | On the eve of demolition work on the east side of the road, LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly shares the secrets of Houghton Street, LSE's iconic thoroughfare, from inside the East Building.

Contributor(s): Sue Donnelly | 2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Arthur Lewis, LSE’s first black academic and the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979. LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly discusses Lewis’s achievements at the School, the academics who influenced him the most and how the Second World War boosted his career.

Contributor(s): | 2014 was another extraordinary year for LSE. We saw accolades for our staff, students and graduates, a stellar array of public lectures and events, and the opening of our state-of-the-art, multiple award winning Saw Swee Hock Student Centre. As we are about to enter 2015, and LSE’s 120th year, here is a short film which gives a glimpse of the School’s rich history, our dynamic student body and some of the exciting developments which have taken place. …And there is plenty more to come. Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year! Professor Craig Calhoun - Director and President, LSE.

Contributor(s): Amelia Thomson, Nadia Shamsad, Professor Paul Kelly, Jay Stoll, Kim Kooner, Sonia Thind, Professor Craig Calhoun, Revd Dr James Walters, Christopher Le Brun | LSE Faith Centre commissioned a new stained glass window reflecting the ancient tradition of the desert as a symbol of spiritual significance. Staff and students reflect on its meaning to them and their reactions to the Centre as a whole. President of the Royal Academy, Christopher Le Brun, then discusses his experience of designing the window.