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LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 2
The first digital file in the Part 2 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

  1. Newspaper cutting from the Evening Standard with cartoon featuring Lansbury, by Low, September 1929.
  2. Newspaper cutting from the Daily Express with cartoon featuring Lansbury by Strube, November 1929

Correspondence and papers, 1877-1888

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 1

  • 1-4. Letters from Elizabeth Jane Brine (later Mrs George Lansbury) to 'Alice' (later Mrs W. C. Sewell), 13 and 20 July 1877.
  • 5-25. Letters from Lansbury to W. C. Sewell, 20 July 1877-29 April 1879.
  • 26-27. Letter from Lansbury to James Lansbury, 31 May 1880.
  • 28-33. Letters from Lansbury to W. C. Sewell, 17 July 1880-12 July 1881.
    1. Advert for Bow and Bromley Liberal and Radical Association, 1890.
  • 35-36. Letter from Alf Everett to Lansbury, [1884?].
    1. Immigration and Emigration by Sea, copied by Lansbury from the Queensland Blue Book, 1884.
  • 38-39. Enquiry by Lansbury about social conditions in Australia, 1886.
  • 40-44. Notes by Lansbury in response to a circular, [1884?].
    1. Letter to Lansbury from W. Hoffman, [1885-1895?].
    1. Leaflet advertising meeting for 'What is the Truth about Emigration?', with Lansbury as cosignator, [1886?].
    1. Newspaper clipping from the Sydney Correspondence, 5 February 1886.
  • 48-53. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [1886?].
  • 54-55. Letter from H. B. Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 31 December 1886.

Correspondence and papers, 1889

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 2

  • 56-57. Letter from Mallet to Lansbury, 25 January 1889.
  • 58-59. Letter from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 3 February 1889.
  • 60-64. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 17 February [1889-1890?].
    1. Letter from Baron Samuel Montagu to Lansbury, 24 March 1889.
    1. Letter from H. Rutter to Lansbury, 16 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Mark Dalton to Lansbury, 1889.
  • 68-69. Letter from E. Goodman to Bessie Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
  • 70-71. Letter from James Lansbury to George Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Lindsey to Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Jane Oxley to Elizabeth Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
  • 74-75. Letter from Aunt and Uncle of Elizabeth Lansbury[?] to Elizabeth and George Lansbury, [1889?].
  • 76-77. Letter from Reverend J. Pullein Thompson to Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Henry W. J. Hall to Lansbury, [April?] 1889.
    1. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 18 April 1889.
    1. Letter from H. B. Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 18 April 1889.
    1. Letter from A. E. Symonds to Lansbury, 19 April 1889.
  • 82-83. Letter from Henry J. Watkinson, MP, to Lansbury, 20 April 1889.
  • 84-85. Letter from Elizabeth Lansbury to Alice Sewell, 5 June 1889.
    1. Letter from Samuel L. Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 1 September 1889.
  • 87-98. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 15 November-24 December [1889?].
    1. Letter from Lansbury to Wait Chester Sewell, n.d.

Correspondence and papers, 1890-1891

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 3

  • 100-101. Letter from S. L. Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 21 April [1890?].
  • 102-103. Letter from H. J. Watkinson, MP, 31 May 1890.
  • 104-109. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, ?-13 May [1890?].
  • 110-111. Letter from B. Henderson to Lansbury, 25 July 1890.
  • 112-122. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 29 July-28 August 1890.
  • 123-128. Letters from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 28-30 May 1891. * 129-130. Letter from Sydney George Holland to Lansbury, [May or June 1891?].
  • 131-134. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 5 November-16 December 1891.
  • 135-136. Letter from J. E. Watts-Ditchfield to Lansbury, 1891.

Correspondence and papers, 1892

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 4

  • 137-143. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 4-29 January 1892.
    1. Letter from L. T. Mallet to Lansbury, 7 February 1892.
  • 145-147. Letters from Corrie Grant, QC, to Lansbury, 18 March-? 1892.
  • 148-149. Letters to W. C. Sewell from Lansbury, 1-2 April 1892.
    1. Antimilitarism speech by Lansbury, featured in The Arbitrator, May 1892.
  • 151-152. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 18 May 1892.
  • 151A. Receipt for Sewell for the sale of a piano by S. A. Brine, 27 May 1893.
  • 153-154. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [1892-1895?].
    1. Letter from J. E. Watts-Ditchfield to Lansbury, 8 July 1892.
  • 156-157. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 11 July [1892?].
  • 158-159. Letter from Corrie Grant, QC, 26 July [1892?].
    1. Newspaper article of Lansbury cleaning a church, 1912.
  • 161-162. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, between August 1892 and July 1895.
  • 163-164. Letter from Corrie Grant to Lansbury, 26 September [1892?].
  • 165-172. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 21 October-15 December 1892.
  • 173-174. Letter from S Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 21 April 1892.

Correspondence and papers, 1895

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 6

  • 227-230. Letters to WC Sewell from Lansbury, [1895?].
    1. Newspaper article about Lansbury discussing unemployment at the Vestry, [February 1895?].
    1. Leaflet authored by Lansbury concerning unemployment, 11 April 1905.
    1. Letter from the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor to Lansbury, 17 April 1895.
  • 233A. Questions from Lansbury concerning immigration in Queensland, n.d.
  • 234-241. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [early May?]-6 May 1895.
  • 242-243. Letter from Charlotte Skerritt to Lansbury, 10 May 1895.
  • 244-245. Letter from William Dingwall to Lansbury, 14 May 1895.
  • 246-247. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 15 May [1895?].
  • 248-249. 'A Socialist View of the Government', Magazine article by Lansbury in the National Review, June 1895.
  • 250-251. Letter from WE Knollys to Lansbury, 6 June 1895.
  • 252-253. Proposal regulation for farm employment at Laindon Farm Colony, n.d.
  • 254-255. Letter from HB Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 4 July 1895.
  • 256-259. Letters from Lionel Raleigh Holland to Lansbury, 21-29 July 1895.
  • 260-266. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 5-27 August 1895.
  • 267-268. Letter from HM Hyndman, 25 August 1895.
  • 269-270. Letter from HB Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 28 August 1895.
  • 271-272. Letter from HJ Watkinson to Lansbury, 30 August 1895.
  • 273-274. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [August 1895?].
    1. Letter from Herbert Burrows to Lansbury, 9 September 1895.
  • 276-281. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 21 October-11 November 1895.

Correspondence and papers, 1895

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 5

  • 175-176. Letter from J Bonar to Lansbury, 18 May 1893. * 177. [Missing?].
  • 178-179. Letter from JF Kitto to Lansbury, June 1893.
  • 180-182. Letter from Corrie Grant, QC, to Lansbury, 13-14 July 1893.
  • 183-184. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 20 July [1893-1895?].
    1. Letter from S Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 29 August 1893.
    1. Campaign poster for Lansbury as Guardian, Social-Democratic Labour Candidate in the Parish of Bow.
  • 187-189. Letter from [W Wallau Brice?] to Lansbury, 23 November 1893.
  • 190-191. Letter from FJ Osbourne to Lansbury, 23 November 1893.
  • 192-193. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 24 November 1893.
  • 194-196. Letters to WC Sewell from Lansbury, [1893?].
    1. Newspaper article about Lansbury and confrontation with unemployed, Socialist Guardian of Bow, January 1894.
  • 198-202. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 17 January 1894.
    1. Newspaper article about John Burns and the Social Democratic Federation, authored by Lansbury, 25 January 1894.
  • 204-208. By-election address for Parliamentary representative of Walworth, February 1894.
    1. Letter to WC Sewell from Lansbury, 20 February 1894.
  • 210-211. Letter from Tom Donald to Lansbury, 26 February 1894.
    1. Letter from Corrie Grant, QC, to Lansbury, 23 March 1894.
  • 213-215. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 8 May 1894.
  • 216-217. Letter from Henry J Watkinson to Lansbury, 8 May 1894.
    1. Letter from Henry Mayers Hyndman, 6 June 1894.
    1. missing.
    1. Letter from James Lansbury to George Lansbury, 27 September 1894.
    1. Letter to WC Sewell from Lansbury, [28 September 1894?].
    1. Programme for Guardians' Election, Lansbury as Social-Democratic candidate for Bow and Bromley, [November?] 1894.
    1. Letter from WB Hoffman to Lansbury, 9 November 1894.
    1. Leaflet advertising Lansbury's candidature for Guardian in Bow, 15 December 1894.
  • 225-226. Letter from Corrie Grant to Lansbury, [1894?].

Correspondence and papers, 1895-1900

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 7

  • 282-284. Letter from W Dingwall to Lansbury, 22 December 1895.
  • 285-286. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 24 February 1896.
  • 287-288. Letter from Michael Apted to Lansbury, 5 March 1896.
  • 289-290. Letter from Reverend Henry A Marr to Lansbury, 14 March 1896.
  • 291-298. Notes from the meeting of Managers of the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum District, 17 March 1896.
  • 299-300. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 30 March 1896.
  • 301-302. Letter from S Brine to Lansbury, [March 1896?].
    1. Receipt from PE White to Lansbury for payment of one quarter's rent at the premises of 48 Fairfield Road, Bow, 9 April 1896.
    1. Receipt from East London Water Works Company to Lansbury for paymentof three quarters' use of water, 27 May 1896.
  • 305-306. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 1 June 1896.
  • 307-308. Letter from J Fenwick Kitto to Lansbury, 5 September 1896.
    1. Letter from Francis Davey to Lansbury, 5 February 1897.
    1. Letter from S Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, 7 May 1898.
    1. Letter to WC Sewell from Lansbury, 3 August 1898.
  • 312-313. Letter from F Davey to Lansbury, 15 August 1898.
  • 314-318. Manuscript by Lansbury on women's rights, [1899?].
    1. Leaflet of the Socialist and Labour Programme for the Bow Vestryelection,1899.
    1. Newspaper article declaring Lansbury standing for Parliament asa Socialist, 1899.
  • 321-322. Letter to WC Sewell from Lansbury, 15 -23 September 1899.
  • 323-324. Letter from H Burrows to HC Phillips, 12 December 1899.
  • 325-327. Letter from E Harold Spender to Lansbury, [1889?].
  • 328-329. Letter from EH Spender to Lansbury, 14 November 1889.
  • 330-331. Letter from TF Craven to Lansbury, May [29?] 1900.
  • 332-333. Letter from RG Duff to Lansbury, 19 July 1900.
  • 334-335. Leaflet advertising Lansbury's Parliamentary Election bid in Bowand Bromley, [August?] 1900.
    1. Receipt from A Smith to Lansbury, 9 November 1900.
    1. Socialist leaflet advertising the Bow Vestry election, [December 1900?].
    1. Lyrics to 'The Poplar Tree' (Poplar School Song), [1900?].
    1. Letter from Corrie Grant, QC, to Lansbury, n.d.

Correspondence and papers, 1901-1904

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 1

    1. Letter from Bolton King to George Lansbury, 24 July 1901.
    1. Letter from James Lansbury to Lansbury, 3 February 1902.
  • 3-4. Letter from Walter Chester Sewell to George and Elizabeth Lansbury, 3 February 1902.
  • 5-6. Letter from Reverend Manley Power to Lansbury, 5 February 1902. * 7. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 6 February 1902.
  • 8-9. Letter from Harry Finnis Johnson to Lansbury, 7 February 1902.
  • 10-11. Letter from Mrs HF Johnson to Elizabeth Lansbury, 9 February 1902.
  • 12-13. Letter from Reverend Henry Mosley, 10 February 1902.
    1. Letter to WC Sewell from Lansbury, 9 September 1902.
  • 15-16. Letter from W Dingwall to Lansbury, 20 September 1902.
  • 17-19. Letter from Mrs Charles Booth (Mary Macaulay) to Lansbury, including excerpt of 'Life and Labour-Final Volume' manuscript by Charles Booth, 11 May 1903. * 20. Letter from Francis Davey to Lansbury, [1903?].
    1. Letter from Joseph Fels to Lansbury, [December?] 1904.
  • 22-24. Draft letter to J Fels from Lansbury, concerning the Hollesley Bay Farm Colony, 24 November 1904. .
    1. Letter from Reverend John Carter, 28 March 1904.
  • 26-27. Letter from William B Dean to Lansbury, 17 April 1904.
  • 28-29. Letter from Reverend Manley Power to Lansbury, 28 April 1904.
  • 30-34. Letter from BA Wouldham to Lansbury, 3 August 1904.
  • 35-36. Letter from John Collins to Lansbury, 8 September 1904.
  • 37-43. Letter by Lansbury for publication, 23 September 1904.
    1. Newspaper article in 'The Local Government Journal' reporting conference about unemployed, 15 October 1904.
    1. Newspaper interview with Joseph Fels about Laindon Farm Colony.
  • 46-47. Letter from Joseph Fels to Lansbury, 26 October 1904.
  • 48-53. Letters from Reverend William Corbett Roberts to Lansbury, 30 October [1904?].
  • 54-55. Letter from Edward Johns Urwick to Lansbury, 31 October 1904.
  • 56-57. Letter from Reverend John Christian Pringle to Lansbury, 7 September 1904.
    1. Newspaper article in 'The Municipal Journal' about the Laindon Poor Law Labour Colony in Essex, 4 November 1904.
    1. Newspaper article about the Laindon Poor Law Labour Colony in Essex, 11 November 1904.
  • 60-61. Letter from Charles R Enever, 22 November 1904.
    1. Newspaper article about the unemployed problem, discussed at the Guildhall conference, 26 November 1904.
  • 63-64. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 1 December 1904.
  • 65-66. Letter from Reverend George Algernon West to Lansbury, 10 December 1904.
  • 67-68. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 12 December 1904.
    1. Letter from John Vivian Kitto to Elizabeth Lansbury, 19 December 1904.
  • 70-71. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 20 December 1904.
  • 72-73. Letter from Reverend Andrew Binny Ritchie, 23 December 1904.
  • 74-75. Letter from David C Lamb of The Salvation Army to Lansbury, 29 December 1904.

Correspondence and papers, 1905

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 2

  • 76-93. Rough draft of the UK Colonization Act by Frank Smith, 1905.
    1. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company insurance statement to Lansbury, 7 January 1905.
  • 95-98. Letter from Sydney Charles Buxton, 12 January 1905.
  • 99-100. Letter from George Haw to Lansbury, 22 January 1905.
  • 101-102. Letter from Manley Power to Lansbury, 30 March 1905.
    1. Article from the 'Daily News' as to the progress of the Hollesley Bay farm colony.
  • 104-105. Letter from Manley Power to Lansbury, 9 May 1905.
    1. Leaflet advertising May Day demonstration sponsored by Independent Labour Party, Leeds Council, 14 May 1905.
  • 107-108. Letter from Clara E Grant to Lansbury, 21 May 1905.
  • 109-110. Letter from James Lansbury to Lansbury, 21 May 1905.
    1. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 4 July 1905.
    1. Newspaper article about creches for children, 10 July 1905.
    1. Letter from Reverend AE Butler to Lansbury, 2 October 1905.
    1. Newspaper article in the 'Daily Gazette' about Lansbury as Independent Labour Candidate for Middlesbrough and South Bank.
    1. Letter from F Butler to Lansbury, 3 October 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily News' about Lansbury's, as representative of Poplar, proposed address to the King and Queen, 10 October 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily News' about Poor Law applicants in Poplar, 10 October 1905.
  • 118-119. Letter from Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, to Lansbury, 20 October 1905.

Correspondence and papers, 1905

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 3

    1. Letter from the Under Secretary of State's office to Lansbury, 21 October 1905.
    1. Newspaper article on Lansbury's work with the unemployment problem in Poplar, 22 October 1905.
  • 122-124. Letters from F Herbert Stead to Lansbury, 24-28 October 1905.
    1. Letter to Arthur F Winnington Ingram to [?], 31 October 1905.
    1. Newspaper article about women's unemployment march on Whitehall, [4?] November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily News' about women's unemployment problem, 6 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article reporting the events of women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 6 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The Star' reporting on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The Westminster Gazette' reporting on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 6 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily Graphic' on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 7 November 1905.
  • 132-133. Newspaper article on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 7 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The Star' on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 7 November 1905.
  • 135-135a. Newspaper photos of women's unemployed march on Whitehall, including photograph of Lansbury, [?] 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The Times' on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 7 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Morning Leader' on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 8 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper interview in the 'Morning Post' with Lansbury, 8 November 1905.
  • 139-140. Letter from F Herbert Stead to Lansbury, 8 November 1905.
    1. Letter from Mrs F Herbert Stead to Lansbury, 8 November 1905.
    1. Letter from Mrs John Vivian Kitto to Lansbury, 9 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article on women's unemployed march on Whitehall, 10 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily Chronicle' on Queen's opening of an unemployed charity fund, 13 November 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Labour Leader' about unemployment march, 24 November 1905.
  • 146-147. Letter from Gerald William Balfour to Lansbury, 29 November 1905.
  • 148-149. Letter from Sidney H Hunter to Lansbury, 29 November 1905.
  • 150-151. Letter from Mrs. Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, [???] December 1905.
  • 152-153. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 1 December 1905.
  • 154-167. Letters from Mrs Frederick Hansen (Marion Coates Hansen) to Lansbury, 7 December 1905.
    1. Letter to Marion Coates Hansen from Walter Coates, 9 December 1905.
  • 169-170. Letter from Reverend H Belcher to Lansbury, 13 December 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The North Star' about Lansbury's Parliamentary bid in Middlesborough, 14 December 1905.
    1. Newspaper article about deputation on behalf of the unemployed meeting with the Prime Minister, 14 December 1905.
    1. Newspaper article authored by Lansbury for how to solve the unemployment problem through state labour colonies, 16 December 1905.
    1. Newspaper article from 'North Eastern Daily Gazette' about Parliamentary competition in Middlesborough, 22 December 1905. 175-177. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 24 December 1905. . 178-179. Letter from Manley Power to Lansbury, 26 December 1905.
    1. Newspaper clipping on Lansbury's Middlesborough parliamentary bid, [end 1905/early 1906?].

Correspondence and papers, 1906

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 5

    1. Letter from Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Bishop Suffragan of Stepney, to Lansbury, 2 February 1906.
  • 232-235. Letter from George Drydale to Lansbury, 4 February 1906.
  • 236-237. Letter from [Hubert Hammund?] reporting on conditions of the Hollesly Bay Labour Colony, Suffolk, to Lansbury, 13 February 1906.
    1. Letter from Reverend J Burn to Lansbury, 19 February 1906.
  • 239-240. Letter from Reverend AB Ritchie to Lansbury, 21 February 1906.
    1. Newspaper article by Lansbury from the 'Daily News' explaining economic conditions in Poplar, 16 March 1906.
  • 242-243. Letter from Reverend WC Roberts to Lansbury, 19 March 1906.
    1. Letter from Lansbury to the editor of 'The Daily Chronicle', defending unemployment spending in Poplar, 21 March 1906.
    1. Newspaper article by Lansbury defending unemployment spending in Poplar, May 1906.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'East London Advertiser' about Poplar Guardian's reaction to Lord Balfour's Parliamentary investigation into Poplar corruption.
    1. Newspaper article about corruption charges against the Poplar Guardians, 12 May 1906.
  • 248-250. Letter from Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, 18 May 1906.
  • 251-252. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 19 May 1906.
    1. Letter from Reverend F Herbert Stead to Lansbury, 19 May 1906.
  • 253-255. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 24 May 1906.
    1. Letter from Reverend CH Grinling to Lansbury, 7 June 1906.
  • 257-258. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Elizabeth Lansbury, 10 June 1906.
    1. Receipt from Haynes, Robinson and Company, Solicitors, for Poplar Guardian's Enquiry, 15 June 1906.
    1. Receipt of a donation by Elizabeth Lansbury to the Women's Social and Political Union, 25 June 1906.
    1. Letter from Women's Social and Political Union to Lansbury, 25 June 1906.
  • 262-263. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 26 June 1906.
  • 264-265. Letter from Mrs William Ferris Lansbury to George and Elizabeth Lansbury, 27 June 1906.
  • 266-268. Letter from Cosmo Gordon Lang, Bishop Suffragan of Stepney, to Lansbury, 28 June 1906.
    1. Letter from Joseph Fels to Lansbury, 29 June 1906.
  • 270-273. Letter from Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl of Buxton, to Lansbury, 30 July 1906.
  • 274-278. Letter from Chateau Frontenac to Lansbury, 30 June 1906.
  • 279-280. Letter from WA Madeley to Lansbury, 10 July 1906.
  • 281-282. Letter from E Madelay to Lansbury, 2 September 1906.
  • 283-286. Letter from WA Madeley to Lansbury, 24 September 1906.

Correspondence and papers, 1906

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 4

  • 181-198. Manuscript of Lansbury speech on the problem of umemployment delivered to the Christian Social Union, Oxford, May 1907.
  • 199-200. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 1906.
  • 201-202. Letter from FA Viner to JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, January 1 [1906?].
    1. Advert for Lansbury's Parliamentary election bid for Middlesbrough, 1906.
    1. Newspaper article featuring Lansbury's views on unemployment and farm colonies, [January 1906?].
    1. Letter from Elizabeth Lansbury to Alice Sewell, [January 1906?].
  • 206-207. Letter from Mrs William Ferris Lansbury to George and Elizabeth Lansbury, 2 January 1906.
  • 208-209. Letter from Reverend Charles Herbert Grinling to Lansbury, 5 January 1906.
    1. Newspaper article reporting on the progress of the Hollesley Bay Colony, January 1906.
    1. Letter from F Herbert Stead to Lansbury, 17 January 1906.
  • 212-215. Letter from Reverend Andrew Binny Ritchie to Lansbury, 18 January 1906.
  • 216-219. Letter from Wait Chester Sewell to Lansbury, 20 January 1906.
    1. Letter from South Bank Branch, Independent Labour Party, to Lansbury, 20 January 1906.
  • 221-222. Letter from Bromley Branch of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers Union to Lansbury, 23 January 1906.
  • 223-224. Letter from Henry Lockwood to Lansbury, 23 January 1906.
    1. Letter from Marion Blake to Lansbury, 30 January 1906.
  • 226-227. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 31 January 1906.
    1. Letter from Elizabeth Macgregor to Lansbury, 31 January 1906.
  • 229-230. Letter from Sir Richard Douglas Denman, on behalf of Sydney C Buxton, to Lansbury, 1 February 1906.

Correspondence and papers, 1906

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/2 part 6

  • 287-288. Letter from Francis Davey to Lansbury, 29 September 1906.
    1. Letter from Joseph Fells to Lansbury, 30 September 1906.
  • 290-292. Letter from GEF Hansen to Lansbury, 14 October 1906.
    1. Letter from TC Witherby to Lansbury, 15 October 1906.
    1. Letter from TC Witherby to AW Banks, 16 October 1906.
  • 295-296. Letter from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 31 October 1906.
    1. Newspaper article from the 'Daily News' about meeting of unemployed Woolwich workmen to demand war contracts, 1 November 1906.
  • 298-298c. Newspaper article from the 'Daily News' about report condemning poor relief by Poplar Guardians, 9 November 1906.
  • 299-300. Letter from Tom E Glossop to Lansbury, 9 November 1906.
    1. Letter by Lansbury to the editor of 'Justice', 10 November 1906.
    1. Newspaper article about Lansbury's reply to charges of corruption in Poplar, 10 November 1906.
    1. Newspaper article about Crooks' reply to charges of corruption in Poplar, 11 November 1906.
    1. Newspaper article about Poplar Guardians' reply to charges of corruption, 15 November 1906.
    1. Newspaper article from 'The Local Government Journal' about JS Davy's, LGB Inspector, report on corruption charges against Poplar Guardians, 16 November 1906.
    1. Letter from Thomas Barnett, of the Brotherhood Church, to Lansbury, 26 November 1906.
    1. Receipt of payment from Lansbury to Tatham Oblein and Nash for 'The Double House,' Aldborough Hatch, 28 November 1906. * 308. Letter from [?] to Lansbury, 28 November 1906.
    1. Letter from Reverend Henry Russell Wakefield to Lansbury, 23 December 1906.

George Lansbury Archives

  • UKLSE-DL1GL01
  • Collection

The personal and political correspondence of George Lansbury (1859 – 1940), gathered by his biographer and son-in-law Raymond Postgate. George Lansbury was a Labour MP who become borough councillor in Poplar in 1903 and Leader of the Labour Party in 1931 – 1935. Lansbury was interested in the causes and prevention of poverty and unemployment. He was a member of the Central Unemployed Body for London and also a member of the Royal Commission on Poor Law and Relief of Distress, where he signed the minority report. In 1929 he became the first Commissioner of Works and also established the first Poor Law Labour Colony and the first Labour Colony for the Unemployed (apart from the Poor Law and under public control) at Hollesley Bay. He was also a founder of the 'Daily Herald' and its editor from 1919 to 1923. The papers including the following topics: schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis, and the Metropolitan Police; personal and official photographs, and caricatures from the press; press reviews of Lansbury's published works; printed matter, including articles, pamphlets, speeches and leaflets by or concerning Lansbury, election addresses, and personal ephemera.

Non-family photographs

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 4
The first digital file in the Part 4 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

  1. George Barker, 1933.
  2. Samuel Augustus Barnett, undated.
  3. Vladimir D. Bonch-Bruevich, c1920.
  4. W. Dingwall, 1927.
  5. Sir George Edwards, undated.
  6. James Keir Hardie, undated.
  7. Reverend John Fenwick Kitto,1880.
  8. Hermann Molkenbuhr, undated.
  9. Montagu Samuel Montagu, undated.
  10. Rita Ricardo, 1934.
  11. Mr Tarling, 1875.
  12. Sidney Webb, 1924.
  13. Bow Church, undated.
  14. Socialist Literature Depot, Hastings 1910.
  15. National Union of Clerks, Leeds conference, undated.
  16. Group at Women's Labour League conference, including Margaret Bondfield, Portsmouth, January 1909

Photographs of George Lansbury

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 1
The first digital file in the Part 1 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

    1. Lansbury, c 1889, aged 30.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury with their five children, c 1890. Tin-type original and modern copy.
    1. Lansbury and group at demonstration in support of Tom Mann, Victoria Park, June 1936.
    1. Lansbury, c 1906.
    1. Lansbury, c 1906.
    1. Lansbury and group, c 1906.
    1. Family group at Shoreham, c 1909.
    1. George Lansbury, David Bowman, James Keir Hardie, and Thomas Richardson, 1911.
    1. Lansbury and 'rations', c 1915.
  • 10-12. Lansbury and Queen Mary visit Poplar Training School, Shenfield 1919.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury in Leningrad, 1921.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury, c 1920s.
  • 15-16. Lansbury, c 1920s-1930s.
    1. Opening of Poplar Electricity Works, dinner at Hotel Cecil, April 1927.
    1. Lansbury, c1929 .
  • 19-20. Lansbury at an unidentified public ceremony c 1929- 30.
    1. Lansbury with Professor V G Childe at Neolithic village in the Orkneys, c 1929-1930.
    1. Lansbury dictating to his daughter Daisy, 1929 .
  • 23-24. Lansbury sitting for his portrait, with artist Reginald Brill, 1930.
    1. Lansbury and Peter Lee, portraits on a banner for Elemore Lodge, Durham miners' association, c 1920s-1930s.
  • 26-27. Lansbury, c 1930s.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury c1930s.
    1. Lansbury at St Margaret's Bay, August 1931.
  • 30-33. Lansbury and family members, in the grounds of a hotel at Rothesay, c 1933.
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed, with two grandsons at his side, c 1933-1934 .
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed after breaking his leg, with two grandsons at his side Christmas 1933.
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed, February 1934.
    1. Lansbury leaving hospital, 1934.
  • 38-39. Lansbury at the wedding of Mari Stephenson 1934.
    1. Lansbury at his birthplace, August 1934.
    1. Lansbury, c 1934.
    1. Lansbury and Arthur Henderson arriving for the TU Congress in Weymouth, September,1934.
  • 43-44. Lansbury, after resigning the leadership of the Labour party, c1935-1936.
    1. Lansbury at the funeral of King George V, 1936 .
    1. Newspaper cutting of Lansbury with his daughter Daisy at the Labour party conference, Bournemouth, October 1937.
  • 47-56. Lansbury and others during 'Peace tour' in South-Eastern Europe,1938-1939.
    1. Newspaper cutting of Lansbury with his 22nd grandchild, 1939

Photographs of members of the family

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 3
The first digital file in the Part 3 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

    1. Doreen and Constance Lansbury, 1899.
  • 2-5. Minnie Lansbury, undated.
    1. Minnie Lansbury 1920.
  • 7-9. Minnie Lansbury, undated.
    1. William Arthur Lansbury c1914-1918.
    1. Unknow, undated
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