Contributor(s): Christine Lagarde | “Be curious about what you can give back to the world and how you can use your time here towards that goal." This year's Welcome address comes from Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the European Central Bank. President Lagarde shares the qualities that LSE students will need to help them make the most of their time at LSE and the opportunities that await.

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Contributor(s): | This year's Welcome address comes from Lord Victor Adebowale, a governor at LSE. Lord Adebowale shares his thoughts on the importance of making positive change in the world, and what it means to belong at LSE.

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Contributor(s): Martin Tomkinson, Mary Evans, Ted Parker, Guatam Appa | During the closing years of the 1960s, a series of student protests erupted at LSE. Against a backdrop of international unrest and rapid social change, the sit-ins and occupations became headline news. Several students were arrested, others banned from the premises, riot doors were installed, and an LSE porter lost his life. Here are recollections of those events from some of those who were there.

Contributor(s): Dame Minouche Shafik | In the centenary year of the first votes for women in the UK, LSE's Towers buildings on Clement's Inn are being renamed after three leading campaigners from the women's suffrage movement. Find out more with LSE Director Minouche Shafik.

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix, Dr Paul Stock, Professor Peter Trubowitz, Baroness Amos, Professor Fawaz Gerges, Professor Michael Jacobs, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Professor Robyn Eckersley, President Juan Manuel Santos | LSE was founded with the aim of understanding the causes of things and for the betterment of society. This ideal is still at the heart of LSE and we know whatever new challenges 2017 brings, our students will be prepared for bright futures in world-changing roles.

Contributor(s): LSE | This film celebrates LSE in 2015. What does 2016 hold for all of us?

Contributor(s): Salma Raheem, Professor Linda Mulchahy, Maria Carvalho, Louisa Green | A new PhD Academy opened at LSE provides doctoral students with a specially designed space that includes a common room, a teaching room and central services all in one location for the first time in the School’s 120-year history.

Contributor(s): Rod McAllister, William Pine, Julian Robinson, Tracy Meller, Lord Rogers, Ivan Harbour | A film about the LSE Centre Buildings Redevelopment, the largest ever building project LSE has commissioned in its 120 year history.

Contributor(s): Sue Donnelly | On the eve of demolition work on the east side of the road, LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly shares the secrets of Houghton Street, LSE's iconic thoroughfare, from inside the East Building.

Contributor(s): Sue Donnelly | 2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Arthur Lewis, LSE’s first black academic and the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979. LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly discusses Lewis’s achievements at the School, the academics who influenced him the most and how the Second World War boosted his career.

Contributor(s): | 2014 was another extraordinary year for LSE. We saw accolades for our staff, students and graduates, a stellar array of public lectures and events, and the opening of our state-of-the-art, multiple award winning Saw Swee Hock Student Centre. As we are about to enter 2015, and LSE’s 120th year, here is a short film which gives a glimpse of the School’s rich history, our dynamic student body and some of the exciting developments which have taken place. …And there is plenty...

Contributor(s): Amelia Thomson, Nadia Shamsad, Professor Paul Kelly, Jay Stoll, Kim Kooner, Sonia Thind, Professor Craig Calhoun, Revd Dr James Walters, Christopher Le Brun | LSE Faith Centre commissioned a new stained glass window reflecting the ancient tradition of the desert as a symbol of spiritual significance. Staff and students reflect on its meaning to them and their reactions to the Centre as a whole. President of the Royal Academy, Christopher Le Brun, then discusses his experience...

Contributor(s): LSE students and staff, building occupants and users | Vox pop interviews with people who are occupants or visitors of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, by Rod McAllister and William Pine, commissioned by LSE Estates Division.

Contributor(s): Jonathan Leape, Professor Luc Bovens, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor Michael Cox, Dr Piers Ludlow | LSE100 is an innovative new course set up as part of a major series of initiatives to improve teaching at LSE. It introduces first year undergraduates to the fundamentals of thinking like a social scientist, by exploring some of the great intellectual debates of our time from different perspectives. In this film, Director of LSE100, Dr Jonathan Leape, sets out the...

Contributor(s): Rachel Leighton, Candice Holdsworth, Professor Anne West, Damian Roberts, Mike Lucas, Sarah Leighton, Ailsa Lucas | Graduation is one of the best and busiest times of the year for students and staff at LSE, and this latest film from the "Stories from LSE" series tells the story of a graduation day through the eyes of Rachel Leighton and her family. A student in social policy, Rachel graduated last year with a 2:1 and was joint winner of the Janet Beveridge award for...

Contributor(s): Sophie Giscard D'estaing, Andrew Rajanathan | LSE is known for having one of the most active student bodies in the world and LSE is working to create a world class building that will feature the best facilities for students and will enhance the student experience. In this short film, LSE students Sophie Giscard D'estaing and Andrew Rajanathan set out to discover why the School is building a new students' centre and what the building will look like. 'It's a shame to lose a very...

Contributor(s): Paul Krugman | LSE's motto, 'To know the causes of things' is exemplified in its lively public events programme. Every term up to 90 often high profile speakers come to the School to explain, examine, and debate important economic, social and political issues. This short film provides a taster of the exciting events programme which has brought luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Alan Greenspan, George Soros and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia to...

Contributor(s): Eno Alfred, Pavel Kireyev, Tom Clarke, Jumpei Satomi | The last in this initial batch of three Stories from LSE videos focuses on professional student musicians who have found that LSE is about more than economics - and that they can pursue their musical ambitions while studying at the School.

Contributor(s): Eno Alfred, Emma Dyer, Margaret Coffey, Mazida Khatun, William Storey, Methela Haque | The second in the series of Stories from LSE features students from non-traditional backgrounds, either the first in their family to go to higher education or from schools that do not traditionally send students to Russell group universities.These include Mazida Khatun, born in London to Bangladeshi parents. 'We are pretty much a working class family, my dad was a cook and my mother a...

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Adam Sandell, Heather Rogers QC, Eno Alfred | In the first of an initial series of three videos, Professor Conor Gearty, professor of law and head of human rights at LSE, talks of his passion for teaching - and what makes teaching at LSE so special. 'One of the remarkable features of a successful institution such as LSE's Department of Law is that... most of the colleagues are teaching stuff of which they are a part and that makes for good teaching at...