Engagement projects
Our Learning & Engagement team participates in a variety of outreach and engagement activities to connect public and school audiences to our archives and special collections.
Find out more about some of the projects we have participated in.
Past engagement projects
In a collaboration between LSE and Arts & Homelessness International, three artists with lived experience of homelessness were invited to explore and respond to LSE Library’s archives. From Victorian-era Poor Laws to modern-day oral histories, the archives revealed powerful — and often overlooked — stories of homelessness in the UK.
In 2023 fifty Year 5 pupils from Christ-Church Primary, Croydon took part in the Library’s LSE Festival project to engage with stories from the archives to inspire their own campaigns for change. Working with artist Becci Kenning and community composer, Tom Cook, students created visual art, poetry and music to make their voices heard.
The Library’s LSE Festival project for 2022 drew together archives and expertise from within LSE to work with a partner school, artist and writer in producing school lessons and creative ideas that value children and their voices. Explore our art, history and wellbeing learning resources around children’s rights.
A partnership with Frith Manor Primary School, Barnet and artist Becci Kenningfor the LSE Festival 2021, to develop teaching resources for Year 5 children. The aim was to help the children understand the COVID-19 pandemic and encourage them to express their feelings about the impact it has had on their lives.
A record of our 2018 programme of exhibitions and events to commemorate the centenary of when some women got the vote which drew on the rich material in The Women’s Library collection with links to materials that is available to listen to or download.