London School of Economics 1967-69

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• Storming the gates and closing the School
  Sue Donnelly, March 6, 2019. Posted In: LSE student life | The LSE Troubles. Sue Donnelly is formerly LSE's Archivist, where she specialised in the history of the School.
• LSE Festival 2019 | Whatever Happened to the Revolution? LSE in the 60s
  Speaker(s):Sue Donnelly and Professor Michael Cox, 26 February 2019
  The event was organised by LSE IDEAS, LSE's foreign policy think tank, and was part of the LSE Festival: New World (Dis)Orders running from Monday 25 February to Saturday 2 March 2019, with a series of events exploring how social science can tackle global problems.
  A student-led occupation of LSE took place during October 25-27, 1968, in support of a national demonstration against Britain's cooperation with the Vietnam War. In response, the school installed metal gates in a number of locations to block off strategic doorways. In January a series of meetings and actions led to the smashing of the gates on Jaunary 24, 1969, with a subsequent extended closure of the school. Vic believes that after minute 15:00, when Ms. Donnelly refers to "October", she meant to say "January".
• LSE - The Natives are Restless
  L.S.E.: the Natives are Restless: a Report on Student Power in Action, by Paul Hoch, Vic Schoenbach. London, Sheed & Ward, 1969, 212 pages.
  Google Books page: https://books.google.com/books/about/L_S_E_the_natives_are_restless_a_report.html?id=mD47AAAAMAAJ
• The LSE Protests 1966-69 (14:40)
  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. The video juxtaposes two different occupations, however, which is somewhat confusing. The first occupation, in March 1967, concerned the appointment of Walter Adams as LSE's Director. The second occupation, on October 25-27, 1968, was organized in support of a massive demonstration (shown in video footage) against Britain's support for America's war in Vietnam. The gates were installed in response to the second occupation and taken down by activists in late January 1969. (See LSE: The Natives are Restless for an account written by two American participants.)
• The LSE Troubles (of 1967-1969)
  50 years ago, the School was temporarily closed while a period of student opposition to the Director, Walter Adams, played out against a backdrop of global civil unrest 1967-69. This series of posts tracks the cause of discontent, beginning with the 1966 announcement of Adams’ appointment of as Director, what happened, and why. (Includes a link to the 14-minute video also provided in this folder.)
• The Revolution at the LSE (March 1967)
  Rand K. Rosenblatt, Harvard Crimson, March 23, 1967
  Last Friday, 3000 students marched through the City of London and the West End, demonstrating national support for the "rebels of the London School of Economics." For Britain's universities, sharply divided by tradition and the "tracking" system, it was a rare moment of unity: students from Leeds, Manchester, Regent St. Polytechnic, and Cambridge (among others) carried banners together and wore a new symbol of quiet protest: yellow daffodils. The London Times called the student demonstrations "unprecedented in British university history." The march was inspired by the round-the-clock LSE sit-in which began a week ago Monday. Between 200 and 800 students have been occupying LSE's main entrance hall, unfurling a banner reading, "Beware the Pedagogic Gerontocracy"--beware the rule of the old men.
• "The Academic Informer" (student pamphlet)
• 1967 protests over suspension of students at LSE
  CAN944 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS PROTESTS SUSPENSION OF STUDENTS
  AP Archive
  (17 Mar 1967) Students from the London School Of Economics and Political Science (LSE), protest after the suspension of two fellow leading students - Marshall Bloom and David Adelstein. Protests started after the university's controversial decision to elect Sir Walter Adams, Principal of the College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, as new Director of the school.
  
• Images from 1967 arrests
  London School of Economics protest: day 3; MS Police van turns 2-SHOT Marshall Bloom (President of Graduates Union) and David Adelstein (President, LSE Students Union)