This file includes the recorded audio of the interview with Dr Akima Thomas OBE, along with a transcript, a summary of the recording, and a photo of the interviewee. At the time of the interview, Akima was the Founder and Clinical Director of Women and Girls Network, a holistic therapeutic service working with women and girls surviving violence. Date of interview: 02/07/2020. Length of recording: 00:55:32.

A collection of papers and publications produced by the Fabian Society between 1884 and 2009, including the Fabian Tracts, the Young Fabian pamphlets series and meeting minutes. These materials provide a record of the Society’s internal administration, as well as illustrating their political and ideological evolution over time. Founded in 1884, the Fabian Society is a prominent left-wing think tank which has had (and continues to have) a significant influence on the British left, most notably the Labour Party. The Society was founded with the purpose to "reconstruct society in such a manner as to secure the general welfare and happiness".

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Executive Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. General Purposes Committee; et al.

Corporate author: Fabian Society Committee; et al.

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Economics Committee; et al.

Corporate author: Fabian Society

Corporate author: Fabian Society

Corporate author: Fabian Society

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Common Room Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Common Room Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Propaganda Committee; et al.

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Organising and Propaganda Committee

Corporate author: Fabian Society. Finance and General Purposes Committee

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/5 part 3
96-103. Letter and manuscript from Montague R Levenson, 25 June 1912.
104-105. Letter from AD Macpherson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
106-109. Letter, copy letter, and newspaper article from T Miller Maguire to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.

110. Letter from Mark Melford to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     111-112. Letter from Helen M Nidd to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     113-114. [Missing?].
111. Letter from Walt Chester Sewell to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     116-119. Letter from Andrew Sloan to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
112. Letter from AH Smith to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
113. Letter from Frank Smith to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     122-123. Letter from Sarah E Waller Stevens to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
114. Letter from T Smithies Taylor to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     125-126. Letter from S Weevill Turner to Lansbury, June 25 1912.
115. Letter from EH Watson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
116. Letter from a 'Well Wisher' to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
117. Letter from Reverend PET Widdrington to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
118. Letter from Gertrude Wilkinson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
119. Letter from Sara Cower Wilson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
120. Letter from F.A.Underwood, Secretary of the Women's Freedom League, to Lansbury, 25 June 1911.
121. Letter from M Bridges Adams to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
122. Telegraph from Aitken to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
123. Letter from H da Costa Andrade to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
124. Letter from W Andrade to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
125. Letter from Anonymous to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     138-139. Letter from WH Archibold to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
126. Telegraph from Baker to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     141-142. Letter from J Saword Beanland to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
127. Letter from Ernest Bell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
128. Letter from Alfred John Billinghurst to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
129. Telegraph from Mrs Henry Noel Brailsford to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     146-147. Letter from Christina Sinclair Bremmer to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
130. Letter from Kathleen Buske to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     149-150. Letter from Mrs Humphrey C Butler to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
131. Letter from Reverend GW Grundy, Valley End Vicarage, to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/5 part 4

152. Letter from Joseph Clayton to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     153-154. Letter from Reverend William Frederick Geikie-Cobb to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
153. Letter from 'Conservative' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
154. Letter from 'A Conservative' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
155. Letter from 'Several Conservative Women' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     158-159. Letter from Emma Cowles to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     160-161. Letter from W Harris Crook to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
156. Letter from Gordon Crosse to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
157. Letter from Reverend George Herbert Davis to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     164-165. Letter from Evelyn Diplock to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     166-167. Letter from John Donnell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     168-169. Letter from Nannie Florence Dryhurst to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
158. Letter from AME to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
159. Letter from Alice Everett to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
160. Letter from Reverend Richard Brundell Lawson Exton to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
161. Letter from Ethel Gordon Fenwick to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     174-175. Letter from Mrs CE Ferris to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     176-177. Letter from Frank Mosley Fletcher to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
162. Letter from Jean Forsyth to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     179-183. Letters from Mary Gawthorpe to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     184-185. Letter from Mrs P King George to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     186-187. Letter from Aimee E Mills Gibbs to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
163. Letter from Ethel Mary Goodman to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
164. Letter from Reverend HM Green to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     190-191. Letter from Jean Greive to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     192-195. Letter from Reverend Charles E Griffin to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
165. Letter from Joan Baillie Guthrie to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     197-198. Letter from Robert Guthrie to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
166. Letter from Hugh Gwyther to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/5 part 5
200-201. Letter from Cicely B Hale to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
202-203. Letter from Rebecca H Scott Wakeham to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

204. Letter from Mrs O Hancock to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     205-206. Letter from Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
205. Letter from Henry D Harben to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     208-209. Letter from Katie Harris to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
206. Letter from K Harvey to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     211-212. Letter from Harry Haworth to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
207. Letter from Samuel Healy to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     214-215. Letter from Beatrice C Heap to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     216-217. Letter from Fannie Helliwell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     218-219. Letter from S Hemsley to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     220-221. Letter from Mrs B Hewitson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
208. Letter from Patricia Hoey to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
209. Letter from Mrs Henry Holiday to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
210. Letter from Vera Holme to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
211. Letter from William E Hopkins to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
212. Letter from John Horrobin to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     227-228. Letter from Robert Horsfield to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     229-230. Letter from WH Hudson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     231-232. Letter from Sarah Hume to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     233-234. Letter from Alfred Hurley to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
213. Letter from the Colchester Independent Labour Party to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
214. Letter from Tom Powell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     237-238. Letter from H Inglis to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
215. Letter from Edward M Jeans to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
216. Letter from W Jenkins to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
217. Letter from Dorothy Jewson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
218. Letter from John Ruskin Invalid School to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     243-244. Letter from Charles Atlan Jones to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
219. Letter from the Judicial Injustice Redress Society to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     246-247. Letter from Agnes Kelly to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     248-250. Letter from JG Kelly to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/6 part 4

150. Letter from Lily Ross to Lansbury, 8 October 1912.
     151-153. Letter from FW Pethick-Lawrence to Lansbury, 26 October 1912.
151. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 29 October 1912.
     155-156. Letter from Mary Fels to Lansbury, 29 October 1912.
     157-160. Letter from May Tennant to Lansbury, 31 October 1912. .
     161-162. Letter from Marie Therese Stuart to Lansbury, [October or November?] 1912.
     163-165. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 3 November 1912.
152. Letter from Gordon Crosse to Lansbury, 12 November 1912.
153. Letter from James Lansbury to Lansbury, 13 November 1912.
154. Letter from Alexander Begg to Lansbury, 14 November 1912.
     169-170. Platform manifesto by Lansbury to the electors of Bow and Bromley, Parliamentary by-election, mid-November 1912.
155. Newspaper article about meetings featuring Lansbury, mid-November 1912.
     172-174. Newspaper articles in 'Votes for Women' about Lansbury's pro-suffragist activities.
     175-179. Letters from J Scotney to Lansbury, 17 November 1912.
     180-181. Letter from Rowland Kenney to Lansbury, 18 November 1912.
156. Letter from Lansbury to Reverend HA Mason, 19 November 1912.
     183-184. Letter from Helen Gordon Clark to Lansbury, 21 November 1912.
     185-186. Letter from Amy Quinton to Mary Neal, 21 November 1912.
157. Newspaper cartoon in the 'Daily Express' of Lansbury, 22 November 1912.
     188-189. Letter from Ella Inglis, Honorary Secretary of the Irishwomen's Reform League, to Lansbury, 22 November 1912.
     190-191. Letter from George E Startup to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
     192-193. Letter from D Christie Tait to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
     194-195. Letter from Hannah Windbolt to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
158. Letter from Edwin M [Bunningham?], Secretary of the British Socialist Party, 24 November 1912.
159. Letter from Gladys Evans to Lansbury, 24 November 1912.
     198-199. Letter from Mary Leigh to George and Elizabeth Lansbury, 24 November 1912.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/6 part 6
261-262. Letter from Minnie O'Brien to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
263-264. Letter from Miss A Palfreman to Lansbury, 27 November 1912. .
265-266. Letter from EJ Parsons to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.

267. Letter from William Corbett Roberts to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
268. Letter from Margot Forbes-Robertson to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
269. Letter from Salmon to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     270-271. Letter from Mabel Sennet to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     272-273. Letter from Wait Chester Sewell to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
270. Letter from William Penn Stringer to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
271. Letter from Barbara Tchaykovsky to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
272. Letter from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     277-278. Letter from Edward Webster, Superintendent of Edmonton Union, to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     279-280. Letter from Ethel Wedgwood to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     281-282. Letter from Mary Willock to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
273. Letter from Rose Lamartine Yates, Organising Secretary and Treasurer of the Wimbledon Women's Social and Political Union, to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     284-285. Letter from Gertrude Francis, Secretary of the Bath Church Socialist League, to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     286-287. Letter from CL Collier to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     288-289. Letter from Rowland Kenney of 'Daily Herald' to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
274. Letter from C Stuart Smith to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
275. Letter from HR Stockman to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
276. Letter from SE Turquand to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     293-296. Letter from Ernest Thurtle to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     297-298. Letter from Patricia Waddel to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
277. Letter from K Patton, Secretary of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     300-303. Letter from George ED Durnford to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     304-305. Letter from Frederick Young to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
278. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 30 November 1912.
     307-309. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 30 November 1912.
     310-311. Letter from Helen Tyson to Lansbury, 1 December 1912.
     312-313. Letter from James O'Grady to Lansbury, 2 December 1912.
279. Letter from William A Brothers to Lansbury, 2 December 1912.
280. Newspaper article on Lansbury and the Labour Party, 4 December 1912.
281. Letter from E Hood, Secretary of Poplar Trades Council and LRC, to Lansbury, 5 December 1912. .
     317-318. Letter from Eleanor Coates to Lansbury, 10 December 1912.
     319-321. Letter from Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage to Lansbury, 14 December 1912.
     322-323. Letter from Amy Johnson, Secretary of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, to Lansbury, 16 December 1912.
     324-325. Letter from Ada Cripps to Lansbury, 17 December 1912.
     326-327. Letter from George Nicoll Barnes to Lansbury, 21 December 1912.
282. Letter from Arthur E Power to Lansbury, 23 December 1912.
283. Letter from HJ Kitcat to Lansbury, 23 December 1912.
     330-331. Christmas card from Tom Donald to Lansbury, 24 December 1912.
284. Letter from Reverend George Lowther Davey to Lansbury, 26 December 1912.
     333-334. Letter from Mary Fels to Elizabeth and George Lansbury, 30 December 1912.
285. Letter from Bertha Kunz Baker to Lansbury, [1912?].
     336-337. Letter from Mary and Joseph Fels to Lansbury, [1912?].

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/7 part 1

1. Missing.
   2-3. Letter from Olive Tilford Dargan to Lansbury, 6 January 1913.
2. Article detailing Joseph Fels' advocacy of single tax, from Times newspaper, 10 January 1913.
   5-7. Article by Lansbury entitled 'Socialists and Socialism' from Daily Herald newspaper, 13 January 1913.
3. Article by Robert Owen entitled 'A word to the Labour party caucus' from Daily Herald Newspaper, 17 January 1913.
   9-10. Letter from John Oue to 'Joe', 17 January 1913.
4. Memorandum from London County Council to Lansbury, 21 January 1913.
   12-13. Letter from Tom Donald to Lansbury, 24 January 1913.
   14-15. Letter from Sarah Harris to Lansbury, 30 January 1913.
   16-17. Letter from Deborah Webb to Lansbury, 30 January 1913.
5. Letter from Joseph Fels to Lansbury, 10 February 1913.
6. Article about Lansbury's 'call for funds' from the Daily Herald Newspaper, 14 February 1913.
   20-23. Letter from Mrs. Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, 17 February 1913.
   24-25. Newspaper article with photograph reporting members of Lansbury's family receiving punishments for law breaking during the suffragist campaign, 19 February 1913.
   26-27. Letter from the Home Office to Lansbury, 19 February 1913.
7. Letter from David C Lamb to Lansbury, 19 February 1913.
8. Letter from Barbara Tchaykovsky to Lansbury, 23 February 1913.
9. Letter from Ernest Thurtle to Bessie Lansbury, 21 March 1913.
   31-32. Letter from Evelyn Sharp to Lansbury, 17 April 1913.
   33-34. Letter from Henry D. Harben to Lansbury, 6 May 1913.
10. Letter from Ben Tillett to Lansbury, 9 May 1913.
    36-37. Letter from Daily Herald League to Lansbury, 10 May 1913.
    38-39. Letter from Lady Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Bessie Lansbury, 14 May 1913 .
    40-41. Letter from Eliza Gill to Bessie Lansbury, 1913.
    42-43. Letter from J.Murphy to Lansbury, 14 May 1913 .
11. Newspaper article about the Church Socialist League, 15 May 1913.
12. Newspaper article about Sylvia Pankhurst, May 1913 .
13. Newspaper article about Lansbury's imprisonment, 31 July 1913.
14. Newspaper article about House of Commons responses to Lansbury's imprisonment and his subsequent hunger strike, 1 August 1913.
    48-49. Letter from Lady Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Lansbury, 16 May 1913.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/8 part 3

104. Newspaper article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald, 'The Dayspring in Russia' 18 March 1920.
105. Newspaper cutting from the Daily Herald, as Lansbury returns from trip to Russia, 20 March 1920.
106. Newspaper article from the Daily Herald detailing Lansbury's talks in Russia, 3 April 1920.
107. Newspaper article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald for Whitsun, 1920.
108. Cartoon from Punch featuring Lansbury, 22 September 1920.
109. Newspaper photograph of Edgar Lansbury and his wife, 22 September 1920.
110. Letter from The London Scout Council to Lansbury, 30 December 1920.
111. Letter from Charles Alfred Cripps to Lansbury, 31 December 1920.
112. Open letter from Daniel and Rosa Kiefer, December 1920.
113. Letter from Frank Smith to Lansbury, 2 January 1921.
     114-117. Order of service for the funeral of Mary Macarthur, 1 January 1921.
114. Article by Lansbury entitled 'Our friends, our fortunes and our future' from the Daily Herald, 19 February 1921.
     119-120. Letters from Lansbury to Wait Chester Sewell, 29 February 1921.
     121-122. Letter from Lady Somerset to Lansbury, c 1921.
     123-124. Letter from Elizabeth Crooks to Lansbury, 13 June 1921.
     125-126. Newspaper cutting from the Daily News, detailing Poplar council arrests due to refusal to levy rates, includes photograph of Lansbury, 3 September 1921.
115. Article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald entitled 'Still Unemployed', 29 October 1921.
116. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 21 December 1921.
117. Letter from Edward Noel Buxton to Lansbury, 23 December 1921.
118. Open letter to Poplar Training School from the head, William B.Dean, Christmas 1921.
119. Letter from David Graham Pole to Lansbury, 24 December 1921.
     132-133. Letter from Paul Bridgeman to Lansbury, 26 December 1921.
120. Card from Rev.Manley Power to Lansbury, 31 December 1921.
     135-138. Letter from Edgar Lansbury to his parents Bessie and George, c December 1921.