LSE Oral History

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS ARCHIVES/LSE Oral History
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: LSE Oral History
Date(s)	: 1973-2000
Level of description	: Subfonds of the London School of Economics and Political Science Archives View parent record
Extent	: 12 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: London School of Economics and Political Science

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Most of the oral history interviews were organised by the LSE History project for the School Centenary History, or collected by the project. The interviews conducted by Nadim Shehadi were taped in the early 1980s as part of his research on the development of Economics at LSE in the interwar period, and were transcribed by the LSE History Project in 1991.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Tapes, transcripts and summaries of oral history interviews relating to the history of the London School of Economics, 1973-2000, with staff, students and administrative staff of the School, including Professor Amiya Dasgupta, George Panormo, Professor Sir Raymond William Firth, Sir (Ernest) Henry Phelps Brown, Professor Albert Henry Halsey, Mrs Betty Scharf, Mrs Dora Cleather, Dr Anne Bohm, Ted Brown, Professor Frederick Jack Fisher, Hugh Lancelot Beales, Professor Alan Musgrave, Professor Eugene Grebenik, Professor James Durbin, Professor Alan Stuart, Professor Benjamin Charles Roberts, Professor Kingsley Bryce Speakman Smellie, Baroness Beatrice Nancy Seear, Dr Thomas Humphrey Marshall, Professor Donald Gunn Macrae, and Professor Sir Karl Raimund Popper. Also includes a life story interview with Professor Sir Raymond William Firth, given in 2000, and an interview with Professor Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1988-1989.
Also includes transcripts and tapes of interviews undertaken by Nadim Shehadi with 1930s economists, [1980-1985], notably Professor Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, Hugh Lancelot Beales, Professor Nicholas Kaldor, and Professor Frederick Jack Fisher.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Some interviewees not listed above have requested that their interviews be closed during their lifetimes. Apply to the Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Apply to Archivist for copyright details.

Finding aids:

Printed handlist available for the open material.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Most of the material was given by the LSE History project in 1995. Material concerning the interview with Michael Oakeshott was given by the School History Project in 1998. The life story interview given by Raymond Firth to the National Sound Archive was given by Qualidata, University of Essex, in 2001.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The British Library of Political and Economic Science also holds the papers of the LSE History project (Ref: London School of Economics Archives/LSE History Project), which includes reminiscences by staff and students. Further material concerning the LSE may be found in the other sections of the London School of Economics Archives and the papers of Beatrice and Sidney Webb (Ref: Passfield), Sir Walter Adams (Ref: Adams), Lord William Henry Beveridge (Ref: Beveridge), Sir Sydney Caine (Ref: Caine), and Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders (Ref: Carr-Saunders).

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Publication note:

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf LSE: a history of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1995 (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives catalogue. Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996). Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2001