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LSE Department of International History
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We teach and conduct research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world.
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Applications for our Masters programme, LSE-Columbia University Double MA Degree in International and World History are open!

Application deadline is 12 March 2026

Read full details on the programme here: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

#history #masters #study #student #LSE #Columbia
December 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The BSSI aims to shape sustainability approaches that recognise how lived experience, value systems, and identities have developed over time. Several events are being planned, so watch this space! More to come soon.

#news #sustainability #oceans #history #lse
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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NEW✨ Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria: Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands by Jiani He @pku1898.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

#Review by Ron Po @routledgebooks.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

#History #Language #Asia #China
Frontiers of language in the late Qing Empire and the making of modern China - LSE Review of Books
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria by Jiani He examines how language shaped imperial governance and nation-building in late Qing borderlands & shaped modern China.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Jack Englehardt - one of our 2nd year PhD students - is running a course in partnership with the @britishlibrary called ‘History of Maps’.

Full details here: events.bl.uk/events/onlin...

#news #PhD #history #britishlibrary #lse
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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TOMORROW we host Dr Tanya Zion-Waldoks who delivers her talk ‘Framing Resistance: Protest Photography, Collective Memory, and the Civic Struggle for Hope in Israel’.

Full event details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#israel #revolution #photography #lse
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Last week we hosted (with the German Historical Institute London) the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.

Prof Anja Laukötter delivered her talk 'Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History'.

#history #germany #LSE #event
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Last night, Dr Alex Mayhew hosted a screening of Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old for students in our department. Attendees gorged on pizza and discussed the film's depiction of the Great War. Thanks for hosting, Alex!

#film #pizza #ww1 #students #history #lse
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Join us Thurs 4 Dec we host Dr Tanya Zion-Waldoks who delivers her talk ‘Framing Resistance: Protest Photography, Collective Memory, and the Civic Struggle for Hope in Israel’.

Full event details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#israel #revolution #photography #lse #event
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Looking forward to speaking about GLOBALIZING EUROPE today at the University of Warwick - all welcome! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... via @post-doc-club.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @dacretu.bsky.social @purseigle.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Dr Jake Subryan Richards' recent book, ‘The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade’, has been named one of the "Books of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement.

#books #thetimes #academic #slavery #history #lse
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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“Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History”

This Tues 25 Nov, Prof Anja Laukötter delivers the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.

Event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#events #lse
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Join us Thurs 4 Dec we host Dr Tanya Zion-Waldoks who delivers her talk ‘Framing Resistance: Protest Photography, Collective Memory, and the Civic Struggle for Hope in Israel’.

Full event details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

#israel #revolution #photography #lse #event
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“Contested Past and Present: Colonial Imaginaries and their Long Temporalities in German History”

This Tues 25 Nov, Prof Anja Laukötter delivers the Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture.

Event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#events #lse
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Last night we hosted Dr Grace Carrington as she launched her first book “Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean.”

Grace completed her PhD here at the Department in 2019.

The event recording will be available next week!

#event #caribbean #history #lse
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Want to find out more about our LSE-NUS Double Degree MA Asian and International History?

Full details here: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Application deadline: 13 March 2026

#history #asia #singapore #nationaluniversitysingapore #LSE
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Last night we hosted Prof Bradley Simpson who spoke about his soon to be released book 'The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order'.

A recording of the event will be available next week on our website

#event #history #LSE
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Latin America’s international relations are often viewed through the lens of US hegemony.

Yet this obscures important connections with Europe that have helped shape modern Latin American history.

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A shared Atlantic? Reimagining the historical ties between Europe and Latin America -
While Latin American international relations are often seen through the lens of US hegemony Europe has played a neglected role in modern Latin American history.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Join us for the Annual Gerda Henkel Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture delivered by our new visiting professor Anja Laukötter (@uni-jena.de)!

📅 25.11.25|6pm (GMT)
📍MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE|Zoom
👉 Register here: www.lse.ac.uk/Intern...

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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A fantastic new review of GLOBALIZING EUROPE by Jonas Kreienbaum (@kreienbaumj.bsky.social): www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... via @lsehy.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @hsozkult.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The Iranian History Initiative invites applications for the Amir Khosrow Afshar Visiting Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year.

Full details here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#Iran #history #fellowship #research #scholars #khosrow #afshar #lse
October 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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NEXT Thurs 20 Nov we host one of our alumni, Dr Grace Carrington, who will be speaking about her new book “Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean”.

www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#book #event #alumni #history #colonisation #caribbean #LSE
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Join us NEXT Tues 18 Nov, as Prof Bradley Simpson joins us to talk about his soon to be released book 'The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order'.

Full event details and registration: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#event #history #book #UN #LSE
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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We're delighted to announce our winner of the LSE 3rd year dissertation prize was Philippa Fletcher of @lsehy.bsky.social who made use of TWL's collections. Her subject was 'The international feminist issues of "Outwrite Newspaper" , 1982-1988'.

Well done!
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November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Dr Agis Papageorgiou set to teach workshop at Harvard University's Centre for Hellenic Studies, entitled "Thucydides Revisited: How Small States Survive Among Great Powers."

See here for more info: greece.chs.harvard.edu/news/worksho...

#history #greece #workshop #harvard #lse
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM