Lucy Philip Mair
Lucy Philip Mair was a well-known anthropologist; she is far less known for her significant contributions to the history of the discipline of International Relations.
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Margaret Gowing
Historian who wrote histories of the Second World War and the UK’s nuclear power and nuclear deterrent capacity.
Margaret Lambert
Historian Margaret Lambert gained a PhD in international relations at LSE in the 1930s and after the war spent much of her career as an editor-in-chief at the Foreign Office, specialising in contemporary German history.
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Ellen McArthur
In 1897-1898 Ellen McArthur and Getrude Tuckwell appeared as teachers at the London School of Economics who were both linked with Girton College, Cambridge.
Ellen Leonard
In 1907 the LSE Students’ Union elected its first woman President, also known as the Chairman of the Common Rooms Committee. Ellen Marianne Leonard (1866-1953) was a 41 year old historian who had been connected to LSE since 1896. During her time at LSE Ellen produced two publications. In 1900 she published The Early History of English Poor Relief dedicated to William Cunningham.
Alice Clark
British suffragist and pacifist
Audrey Richards
British anthropologist whose honours included a CBE for her work in Uganda, election to the British Academy, and the Presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Beatrice Hewart
In 1898, she published The Wages of London Vestry Employees in the Economic Journal.
Edith Morley
Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution