In recent years, LSE has continued to perform well in league tables and research impact exercises.ДЄnother area of focus has been developing our campus in the heart of London. In 2006 the School obtained the right to confer our own degrees and the first LSE degree was conferred in 2008. These actions secured student representation on School committees. The appointment was opposed by the StudentsвЂ™ Union and led to a period of unrest culminating in numerous sit-ins and the closure of the School after clashes with the School authorities over the installation of security gates. Sir Walter Adams (1906-1975), the principal of University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, was appointed Director in 1967. In 1954, LSE sociologists produced the Nuffield-sponsored report on Social Mobility in Britain, the product of a five-year study that established the study of social stratification for the next 20 years. In 1950 Richard Titmuss was appointed to the Chair of Social Administration, leading the development of the Department of Social Policy and the psychologist, Hilde HimmelweitВ joined the School in 1949 and establishing the Department of Social Psychology in 1964. The 1950s and 1960s were a period of consolidation and development as the School moved into the post-war world. 1950s and 1960sД«y 1951 the School had 2,200 regular students вЂ“ 567 coming from outside the UK. LSE returned to London in August 1945, marking our 50 th anniversary by re-opening to students on 29 October. In London Houghton Street was occupied first by the Ministry of Economic Warfare and then the Ministry of Aviation.Д¤6 members of staff entered war service beginning with the School Secretary, Walter Adams, who worked for the Special Operations Executive and then became Deputy Head of the British Political Warfare Mission in Washington.ДЄt the Economic Section of the Offices of the War Cabinet, Lionel Robbins became Director in 1940 and played a major role at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference.ДЇormer Director William Beverige's The Beveridge Report, published in 1942, became the basis of the post-war Labour governmentвЂ™s legislation programme for social reform. Student numbers fell and for the first time women outnumbered men among the student body. The School continued to teach across the social sciences and courses were shared with Cambridge University and Bedford College. Second World WarДuring the Second World War, LSE, under Director Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders (1886-1966), was evacuated to Cambridge where we were hosted by Peterhouse College. Appointments at LSE were supported by voluntary donations from staff.

In 1933, William Beveridge was among the founders of the Academic Assistance Council (from 1936 the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning) providing practical support for senior German professors dismissed on racial or political grounds. Our first black academic, economist Arthur Lewis was appointed as an assistant lecturer In October 1938.

In July 1921 Lilian Knowles was appointed Professor of Economic History вЂ“ becoming the SchoolвЂ™s first woman professor. In 1931 in a speech to students, Beveridge declared:В вЂњOur scope is best defined as a study of man in society.вЂќ Beveridge/5/10/16 The intellectual expansion of the School was supported by funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1925 Beveridge described the School as вЂњan institution on which the concrete never setsвЂќ. In 1920 King George V laid the foundation stone by the main entrance on Houghton Street and in 1938 work was completed on a new building on the east side of Houghton Street. In 1919 William BeveridgeВ was appointed Director, initiating a period of rapid intellectual and physical development for the School.

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