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Onwards and upwards What an improved magazine! Please keep it up. Iqbal Haji (BSc Economics 1966) New York, USA
Top of the tree It was interesting to see the guest list for the 50 Plus reunion earlier this year, with sadly no-one from the Cambridge days. I suppose there are not many of us left. I was there from 1943-45 reading history but did not want to start again in London when the School returned there the following year, so got a London external degree later on. I came back to LSE for a social science certificate (long gone) and
ANY ANSWERS? Motto musings “To know the causes of things” is a noble aim and one which has served us well in the 20th century and of which all alumni have been proud. The social sciences
were in their infancy at that time and research, the accumulation of data and the testing of hypotheses was a necessary first step, which the School has achieved with outstanding success. Recent correspondence in LSE Connect initiated by Professor
Taylor has suggested that the motto might be extended, and I should like to support his idea. The present motto is a necessary aim but not a sufficient one. Knowledge alone is not enough – it has to be used to promote and advance well-being (the subject of Professor Layard’s recent
ended up as a medical social worker in hospitals. I’m delighted that LSE has retained its place in the top of the academic tree. My old headmistress warned me that I might have difficulty getting employment if I went to such a place (ie, to such a den of socialist iniquity!). Joan Julius (BA History 1945, Certificate in Social Science) London, UK
address to the 50 Plus reunion). I am sure our founders, all social reformers, would have approved such an amendment as being appropriate for the 21st century. Denis Greenald (BSc Government 1950) Chester, UK
A London memento with a touch of class Charles Booth’s maps are now available for sale as reproductions featuring streets colour-coded according to Victorian social status, from “upper-middle and upper classes – wealthy” to “lowest class – vicious and semi-criminal”! Where did you live? What was it like around LSE? Discover at lse.ac.uk/booth To purchase please visit http://eshop.lse.ac.uk and choose the Booth@LSE section. To order by phone, please call +44 (0)20 7955 7223. The price is £17.95 per map sheet, including UK postage and packing (overseas postage is £4 extra). A full set of all 12 maps is available at the discounted price of £95.95, including UK postage and packing (overseas postage £10 extra). Thank you for supporting the Library’s work
1 East: Isle of Dogs, Millwall, Limehouse, Bromley, Stepney [485 x 623 mm] 2 North East: South Hackney, Clapton, Stoke Newington, Dalston [421 x 400 mm] 3 North: Stoke Newington, Highbury, Islington, Finsbury Park, Tufnell Park, Barnsbury [502 x 460 mm]
4 North West: Somers Town, Camden Town, Kentish Town, Belsize Park, Primrose Hill, Hampstead, St John’s Wood, West Hampstead, Kilburn, Maida Vale [531 x 485 mm] 5 East Central: Stepney, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, Haggerston [368 x 485 mm] 6 West Central: Hoxton, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia, Holborn, Covent Garden, Soho [525 x 425 mm]
7 Inner West: Westminster, Marylebone, Mayfair, Paddington, Bayswater, Kensington, Chelsea [554 x 485 mm] 8 Outer West: Kilburn, Kensal Green, Notting Hill, West Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush [609 x 430 mm] 9 Inner South: Rotherhithe, Camberwell, Southwark, Walworth, Kennington, Lambeth, Vauxhall [670 x 382 mm]
10 South West: Wandsworth, Battersea, Clapham, Putney, Fulham [700 x 388 mm] 11 Outside South: Peckham, Camberwell, Dulwich, Brixton, South Lambeth [574 x 417 mm] 12 South East: Blackheath, Greenwich, Lewisham, Hatcham Park [485 x 535 mm]