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"As storytellers, we should not only value or chase stories, we should also be interested in silences and the silenced."

LSE's Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme was honoured to host Elif Shafak, the award-winning British-Turkish author, political scientist and President of the Royal Society of Literature, to give its 5th annual keynote lecture.

Following the event, she discussed her views on the role of art and literature in overcoming the boundaries and boxes of identity which isolate and divide us: https://ow.ly/Y4zX50ZcMfq

"I think it’s fair to say the title of Dickens’ fourth novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, is something of a misnomer."

Alistair MacNichol has been researching the walking route taken by The Old Curiosity Shop’s Little Nell and her grandfather – in preparation for recreating that walk.

He describes his efforts to identify the route from London to Shropshire in a new article for our history blog: https://ow.ly/MTu250Z8Iet

James Meade wrote economics the old-fashioned way – with pen and paper, and working out for himself the answers from first principles.

In October 1977, James was preoccupied with putting the finishing touches to the Meade Committee Report on reform of the British tax system, which subsequently appeared in January 1978. As he wrote in a letter earlier that year, “although I am technically in retirement, I have never, since Whitehall days, worked so hard as on this report”.

One morning he travelled by bus from Cambridge to the University of Buckingham where he was due to give a lecture. On descending from the bus, he was greeted, to his surprise, by a group of dignitaries waiting to inform him that during the journey the announcement had come from Stockholm of the award of the Nobel Prize.

Meade shared the Prize with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin “for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”, according to the official citation.

Mervyn King remembers James Edward Meade, one of the greatest British economists, who taught at LSE: https://ow.ly/X88s50ZfjzE

🗳️ Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, what have we learned?

LSE Blogs have brought together leading researchers to examine Brexit’s lasting political, economic and social consequences.

🇪🇺 Eight reasons why the UK will not rejoin the EU in my lifetime: https://ow.ly/HVtp50Zflwj

🚦 Brexit was supposed to limit immigration, it did the opposite:
https://ow.ly/uIIT50Zflwl

📉 Brexit has been an economic failure: https://ow.ly/rSg150Zflwh

😵 Brexit might have killed the Conservative Party: https://ow.ly/jrzS50Zflwn

🏃 Brexit and the paradox of race in British politics: https://ow.ly/Ztt150Zflwk

What a finale for this year's ! 🦒💖

We welcomed star guests and panellists, including comedian Nish Kumar, former US Secretary of State John Kerry, and Arsenal footballer Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko, for some brilliant discussions on how to save the planet. 🌎

Our family day on Saturday also welcomed children to enjoy a morning of free activities, including a parade of animals by THE HERDS.

Thank you to everyone who attended online and in person! 🎥 Catch up on all hybrid events on our YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK4elntcUEy0hqsx2ML7gHYTIVUSt8KC3&si=edClR5uWoOMEAB0F

🎉 Congratulations to the members of our LSE alumni community who have received honours from HM King Charles III in his Birthday Honours list!

These honourees now join a community of over 800 LSE honourees, whose broad influence across society and back on campus powers societal change. 👏

▫️ Lisa Harker CBE (MSc Social Policy and Planning 1994)
▫️ Lance Uggla CBE (MSc Accounting 1986)
▫️ Emma Frost OBE (Executive Master of Public Policy 2025)
▫️ Dr Carolyn (Carrie) Heitmeyer MBE (PhD Anthropology 2009, MSc Social Anthropology 2003)
▫️ Faria Ali MBE (LLM 2013)

Read more about their accolades: https://ow.ly/4ezB50Zf7L6