Collection UKLSE-DL1GL01 - George Lansbury Archives

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UKLSE-DL1GL01

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George Lansbury Archives

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The first 3 volumes contain 17 pdf files, one for each part of the volumes. Photographs are also available in jpg format.

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Lansbury's personal and political correspondence were initially gathered by his biographer and son-in-law Raymond Postgate.

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The papers of George Lansbury MP (1859 – 1940), which include photographs and caricatures of Lansbury, press reviews of Lansbury’s published work, articles, pamphlets, speeches, leaflets, election addresses and personal ephemera. Topics covered in these papers include schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis and the Metropolitan Police.

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The entire archive is being digitised and will be uploaded over a period of time, when it is completed the collection will have the following arrangement of 31 volumes:
17 volumes, SECTION I, main corpus of George Lansbury's personal and political correspondence and papers in one chronological sequence, 1877-1940

Volume 17, SECTION II, correspondence between Professor Raymond William Postgate, Lansbury's son-in-law and biographer, and others after the death of George Lansbury, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, 1940-1950.

Volumes 18 - 25, SECTION III, correspondence and papers grouped as found, under subject headings:
IIIa.(i): 18. Limit Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1913-1914
IIIa.(ii): 18. Victoria House Printing Co. Ltd., 1917.
IIIb.: 19. Voluntary school problem, 1928-1931
IIIc.: 19. Labour Party manifesto and programme, 1929.
IIId.: 19-20. Unemployment, 1929-1935.
IIIe.: 20. Unemployment and migration, 1929-1930.
IIIf.: 21. Claude Leigh papers: 'Augusta Johnson Centre', 1929-1930
IIIg.: 21. Honorary positions held by George Lansbury, 1929-1931
IIIh.: 21. Unemployment and agriculture, 1929
IIIi.: 21. Maplescombe Valley model village scheme, 1929-1931
IIIj.: 21. Agricultural policy, 1930-1931
IIIk.: 22-24. India, 1930-1937.
IIIn.: 25. George Lansbury: 'Cabinet crisis of 1931', 1931
IIIo.: 25. Means test, 1931-1935
IIIp.: 25. Metropolitan police, 1933
IIIq.: 25. National Hospitals for Dentures, 1935-1936.

Volume 26, SECTION IV, photographs, c1889-1939.

Volume 27, SECTION V, press reviews, 1928-1938:

Volumes 29 - 31, SECTION VI, additionals, 1880-1940:

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As of October 2022, many of the items in this collection are still in copyright. For letters and papers authored by Lansbury LSE is the copyright holder and and we provide permission for its reuse under a CC-BY licence. For re-using papers and photographic material not authored by Lansbury, e.g. press photographs, please see our Terms and Conditions useful page. Please cite “LSE Digital Library” in any use.

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