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28/08/2026

🌊 Heading to the coast this weekend?

From colourful seaside towns to hidden inland gems, the Suffolk coast offers far more than sea views and fish and chips.

📚 This stretch of East Anglia has inspired writers, artists and musicians for generations, and Grace Chapman shares why its independent bookshops are among the best places to discover the region’s creative spirit.

In this guide, Grace Chapman takes us through her favourite bookshops along England's Suffolk coast. If you know an area, city or town with great browsing spots for book lovers, find information about how to contribute to our global bookshop guide series at the end of this article. From colourful se...

27/08/2026

The Language Centre is becoming the Centre for Language Studies 🌍📚

It's a name with history. Language teaching has been part of LSE since 1919, and the Language Studies Centre was first established in 1991 before becoming the Language Centre in 1999.

Today, the new name better reflects what we do at the Centre for Language Studies: from joint degree programmes and courses in language, literature and linguistics, to extracurricular language learning for nearly 2,000 learners every year.

26/08/2026

CBG shot on film 📸

By Nadia Kbouchlaghem

25/08/2026

🏡 New LSE research has identified how community-based, multi-agency hubs can help prevent homelessness, reduce isolation and improve outcomes for lone-parent families facing housing insecurity.

The LSE report was produced for Homewards Lambeth, one of six UK locations that form Homewards – the ambitious five-year programme launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2023 to demonstrate that it is possible to make homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated.

🔎 The research examines the success of the Magpie Project in Newham and draws out lessons for creating similar support hubs elsewhere. Its findings will help inform Homewards Lambeth's work to prevent homelessness among lone-parent families through joined-up, community-based support: https://ow.ly/BcwR50ZF8cA

25/08/2026

💊 What are the health effects of climate change?

🦠 From heatwaves, drought and air pollution to respiratory disease and reduced life expectancy, Dr Miqdad Asaria from LSE Department of Health Policy explains the often-overlooked connection between environmental change and human wellbeing.

📺 Watch our latest episode to learn how climate change affects public health, why health inequalities are growing, and what this means for the future of our societies: https://ow.ly/Wr7U50ZEQ12

24/08/2026

LSE President and Vice Chancellor Professor Larry Kramer is speaking this week at the AVPN Global Conference 2026.

He outlines the importance of the social sciences in solving today's global challenges, ahead of his event on philanthropy.

21/08/2026

🐶🐾 Happy Friday from Ralph, who visited LSE this week!

20/08/2026

🙌 Join us for our first LSE event of the year with Francis Fukuyama!

In his powerful political memoir, encompassing his father's involvement in the civil rights movement and his own work on CIA contracts in the 1980s, Fukuyama analyses his life alongside the seismic political shifts of the last thirty years - from Bush to Obama to Trump, from the War on Terror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

📖 Hear Francis discuss his brand new book, In the Realm of the Last Man, in person on Wednesday 2 September from 6.45-8pm: https://ow.ly/JZcw50ZzTAq

19/08/2026

At LSE, the world is your oyster 🌍

18/08/2026

💰 The rise of feminist financial advice across social media promises women empowerment through investing.

LSE researchers Simidele Dosekun and Rachel O’Neill warn these narratives may be steering feminism into the arms of capitalism.

Feminist “finfluencers” promote investing as empowerment, but new research from LSE warns these narratives risk aligning feminism with capitalism and masking deeper structural inequalities.