Daniel Brambilla-Payne

Curator for Politics and International Relations, LSE Library

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Daniel curates the politics and international relations at LSE Library. His background is in librarianship, having joined the Library in 2012 working in a number of roles including research support, interlibrary loans, and academic liaison for the Government Department and European Institute.

Daniel runs various engagement activities with the archives and special collections, both within and outside the LSE community. This includes curating public exhibitions with accompanying events programmes, running workshops using archives, and working to connect researchers, students, teachers and activists with the amazing collections that belong to us all.

Daniel specialises in curating the archives that relate to the subject areas of peace and internationalism, the history of the UK’s relationship with the European Union, the early development of the British Left, and archives that relate to South Asia.
Daniel is particularly interested to hear from anyone both within and outside LSE who are interested in working on any projects that include the archives. Get in touch via email.

For an overview of the archives and special collections, see the Collections Highlights webpages.

Past exhibitions

"Educate. Agitate. Organise. Ambedkar and LSE" (2021: Available online)
The Power to Vote: A History of General Elections (2020: Available online)
Giving Peace a Chance: from the League of Nations to Greenham Common (2019)
What does Brexit mean to you? (2018)
Journeys to Independence: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (2017)

Selected Writings

Donnelly, S. and Payne, D. (2022). A student in London: Ambedkar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In: W. Gould, S. Dass and C. Jaffrelot, eds., Ambedkar in London. Hurst Publishers.
Peter Shore MP and Bangladesh in the LSE Library Archives (2021) in LSE South Asia Centre Blog
Challis, D. and Payne, D (2021). "Giving Peace a Chance": Archives Engagement at LSE Library. In S. Andrew eds., Paper Trails: The Social Life of Archives and Collections (UCL Press)
Pat Arrowsmith (2019) "I feel guilty for not trying to escape from all of my prison sentences" LSE History Blog
What does Brexit mean to you in three words?
Journeys to Independence Podcast – India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (2017)
New research maps the extent of web filtering in public libraries (2016)

Expertise

historical research, archives and special collections