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We teach and conduct research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world.
Great to catch up with our staff before we break up for the holidays!

This year’s Staff Christmas Lunch was hosted down at Thai Square, and everyone left with very full tummies indeed.

#christmas #lunch #staff #history #lse
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A few snaps from our Student & Staff Christmas Party last night

We had a great time celebrating the end of the term and getting into the festive spirit!

Big thanks to the folks at the LSE Student Union for helping us run a great event.

#christmas #party #students #history #lse
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Thanks to all those who turned out for the PhD Christmas dinner - what a lovely evening!

We have a great bunch of PhD students and it’s always great fun getting everyone together.

#christmas #dinner #phd #students #history #lse
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jack Roush (PhD student) has published a new piece entitled 'Persepolois, Armenia, and Iran's Balancing Act'.

Read it here: rsaa.org.uk/blog/persepo...

#news #phd #iran #armenia #history #lse
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Are you thinking about studying a masters degree in International History at LSE next year?

Come join us for a chat at our Virtual Open Day Event TOMORROW (12 November):

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

#openday #event #history #masters #degree #LSE
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Thurs 4 December 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
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Are you a writer or scholar of history?

We are currently taking applications for the David McClure Visiting Fellowship (closing next Monday 10 November)!

Full details can be found here: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#fellowship #fellow #jobs #research #writer #scholar #history #LSE
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
That’s a wrap on Cumberland Lodge for 2025!

An excellent weekend away which saw a group of our Masters students stay 2 nights at the Lodge (situated on the grounds of Great Windsor Park), joined by a selection of our staff.

#cumberlandlodge #windsor #students #history #lse
November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Dr Roham Alvandi has contributed to a new documentary film, ‘Kissinger', produced by American Experience for the PBS network in the United States.

Watch part 1 here: www.pbs.org/video/part-1...

#film #documentary #kissinger #USA #news #history #LSE
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM