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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.

COLL MISC 0519/33 - Guilty!

Judge John Bull finds the Tory Government guilty of numerous offences relating to Britain's conduct in the Boer War, described in a panel in the centre of the image. The offending politicians are standing in the dock. John Bull's comments appear in text below him; the word Guilty in large upper case at the top. A thick red line borders the poster.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.

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?].

COLL MISC 0519/3 - An Awkward Relationship: Little Johnny would Come

Cartoon satirizing the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists, featuring Campbell-Bannerman as a nervous bride in a wedding dress, and John Redmond as her illegitimate son. Produced for the Conservative and Unionist parties.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Publication: London
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COLL MISC 0519/15 - It Really is a Very Pretty Garden

Full colour lithograph showing ? standing in a garden outside the Radical Conservatory with a watering can, surrounded by healthy potted plants representing Home Rule Imperial Disunion, and Godless Education, and stunted weeds representing Social Reform, Strong Navy and Reduced Taxation.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/26 - Baiting the 'Dear Food' Hook

Small poster showing a fisherman (unidentified politician) baiting his hook with worms called Full Employment and Higher Wages, with his fishing basket, Protection, beside him. In the river, a fish with a man's head (another politician?) looks balefully up at him. Produced by the Liberals.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/85 - Wake Up! It is not what we have now... but how long we shall keep it

Black and red lithograph on white paper showing a British workman asleep as a pipe-smoking Dutchman? with a suitcase creeps around the corner from the docks. Banner top and bottom quoting Chamberlain's speech made in Liverpool on 27 October 1903. Poster produced for the Tariff Reform League.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: Sifken and Co
Publisher: The Tariff Reform League
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/6 - The Decoy

Bannerman and John Bull are shown walking arm in arm along a pleasant street. In the foreground, hidden from their view, an Irish nationalist is waiting with a gun and a club. He is unshaven, and wears a mask, a green jacket, and a hat with Home Rule written acorss the front.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/12 - Hopelessly lost. The Radical Babes in the Wood, and no way out of it

Spoof on the fairy story Babes in the Wood, with two Radicals (Bannerman and John Morley) dressed as children, walking through the thorny undergrowth of Little England between trees with grim faces called Home Rule, Alien Question and Education. Colour panel with small text banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/16 - Chinese Labour

Scene outside a mine in the Transvaal, with Campbell-Bannerman addressing a British workman in a bowler hat and good suit. Cartoon Chinese workers are seen in the background. Bannerman is sympathising with the British man about the Chinese workers taking away all his work, but the workman disagrees, saying that "for every nine coolies, there's a white man gettin' a 1 a day to boss 'em.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/17 - The Next Revival

Bannerman is shown in a brass bed, a Union flag hanging like a curtain to the left. He it sitting up, dressed in a nightshirt and night cap, staring at a realistically-portayed drowned black cat, which is walking across the bed towards him. It has red rolling eyes, and bricks attached to its paws reading 1886 and 1895.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/18 - Redmond's Last Words

Black ink on green paper, with a cartoon of John Redmond raising his fist, and a quote of Redmond's regarding home rule, produced for the Unionist Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Dobson, Molle and Co.
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/21 - This Way, Sir!

Campbell-Bannerman stands at the top of a flight of steps (called Radicalism, Inefficient Army and Navy, Home Rule, and Disunited Empire) that lead from the sunlight down into a dark and fetid pool called Ruin. He appears to be trying to persuade John Bull to walk down the steps in front of him.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
PLace of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/29 - The Cupboard Still Bare

Spoof of nursery rhyme 'Old Mother Hubbard, showing Chamberlain dressed as an old lady opening the 'Old Age Pensions Cupboard' for her dog called 'Aged Poor'. Satirical version of nursery rhyme below image, and explanatory text below the nursery rhyme, commenting on Chamberlain's suggestion that the workman should pay for his Old Age Pension out of a tax on his food.
Thick red border around the image.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production
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COLL MISC 0519/36 - A Herring to catch a Sprat

Chaplin is shown standing on a beach talking to a Working Man, offering him the chance to go out in his boat Tariff Reform to fish for higher wages using Food Taxes as bait, an offer which the man declines.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Waterlow and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/44 - Substance and Shadow

The Bulldog of Labour, dressed in working man's clothes, and carrying a bag labelled Cheap Food in its mouth, crosses a bridge called Free Trade, rather than risking the semi-submerged rock of Higher Wages, More Work.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/45 - Taking Things Quietly. the Game of Grab

Small poster showing John Bull resting against a tree in a wood, having been assaulted and robbed by unidentified men dressed in black frock coats and top hats. The men are carrying bags called Rent of Teachers House, Endowment, Wear and Tear Repairs, and Fees. Conservative and Unionist poster.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher:
Place of Production: London
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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.

COLL MISC 0519/4 - Mrs. Bannerman's Cabinet Pudding

Campbell-Bannerman, dressed in a red frock and white apron, is shown mixing a bowl of Radical Programme in a kitchen. He offers a spoonful of the mixture to John Bull, who is raising his hand in refusal. The shelves behind Bannerman are laden with jars and packets labelled Slave Grown Rice, Foreign Paupers, Candied Cries, etc.
Artist: M. A.
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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