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Charles Booth Digitised Archive

  • UKLSE-DL1CB01
  • Collection
  • 1886-1903

The poverty maps, papers and notebooks of Charles Booth’s inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London (1886 – 1903), an investigation into the distribution of wealth and poverty in late-Victorian London. The most famous items in this collection are the maps, known for their street-by-street colour-coded display of wealth distribution throughout the city at the time. This collection includes both the printed and hand-coloured maps produced by the inquiry. Further topics addressed in Booth's papers and notebooks include industry and religion.

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
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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?].

Women's Suffrage Pamphlets, Vol 1, Part 1 of 4

Part 1 of UDC box 342:

  • 'Veritas'; What is Women's Suffrage? And Why Do Women Want It?; (Printer Women's Printing Society Limited, London), 1883; 9p
  • 'WMC' and 'JF'; Women's Suffrage. A correspondence; London: privately printed, 1875.; 24p
  • McLaren, Walter S B; Mr Walter SB McLaren on Women's Suffrage; Edinburgh: Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1904; 4p
  • Fawcett, Millicent Garrett; [Printed circular letter sent out by Millicent Fawcett after the General Election of 1892]; ???; 3p
  • Fawcett, Millicent Garrett and Glennie, J.S. Stuart; The Women's Suffrage Bill; London: Fortnightly Review, 1889; 33p
  • Anon; Women's Suffrage: A Reply; London: Fortnightly Review, 1889; 16p
  • Johnston, Thomas; The Case for Women's Suffrage and Objections Answered; Glasgow: The Forward Printing and Publishing Company Ltd, c.1903; 16p
  • Central Society for Women's Suffrage; [Call for volunteers to help at the coming General Election]; London: National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, nd; 3p
  • Grey, George; Speech by The Right Hon Sir George Grey, KCB, At the Annual Meeting of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 6 Jul 1894; London: Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage,1894; 3p
  • Becker, Lydia E; A Reply to the Protest Which Appeared in the 'Nineteenth Century Review', Jun 1889. (Reprinted from The Manchester Guardian, 25 Jun 1889); Manchester: The Women's Suffrage Journal, 1889; 8p
  • Anon; The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered. (Reprinted from Westminster Review, Jan 1867); London: Westminster Review, 1867; 19p
  • Anon [Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage]; To the Women of the United Kingdom; London: Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, c.1867-1870; 1p
  • Winchester, Dean of; The Dean of Winchester on Woman's Suffrage. (Reprinted from XIXth Century); London: XIXth Century, n.d.; 1p
  • Cheetham, Miss; Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Southport Women's Liberal Association by Miss Cheetham, 8 Nov 1886; (Printer JW Arrowsmith, Bristol), 1886; 4p
  • Colson, MEH; Woman Suffrage and the Women's Political Associations; London: Personal Rights Association, 1900; 2p
  • Harberton, Florence (Viscountess); Parliamentary Franchise for Women Ratepayers; (Printer E Austin and Son, Bristol), 1880; 2p
  • Elmy, Ben; Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage to Sundry Members of Parliament; London: Male Electors' League for Women's Suffrage, 1897; 4p
  • Clark, Helen; Speech by Mrs William S Clark. (Reprinted from the Women's Suffrage Journal); London: Women's Suffrage Journal, 1876; 8p
  • Smith, Goldwin; Female Suffrage; London: Macmillan's Magazine, nd; 20p

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Women's Suffrage Pamphlets, Vol 1, Part 3 of 4

Part 3 of UDC box 342:

  • Bodichon, Barbara LS; Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women; (Printer Bale, London), 1866; 12p
  • Garrett, Rhoda; The Electoral Disabilities of Women: A Lecture Delivered by Rhoda Garrett in the Corn Exchange, Cheltenham, 3 Apr 1872; Cheltenham: Bristol National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1872; 22p
  • Tod, Isabella M S; Women's Suffrage: A Liberal View of the Situation. (Reprinted from the Englishwoman's Review, Aug 1884); London: Englishwoman's Review, 1884; 12p
  • Anon; How Women Are Fooled. (Reprinted from the Cambrian News); Aberystwyth: The Cambrian News, n.d.; 1p
  • Shore, Arabella; The Present Aspect of Women's Suffrage Considered. (Reprinted from the Englishwomen's Review); London: London National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1877; 43p
  • Adderly, Edith K; 'Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny'. (Reprinted from the Leicester Pioneer, 19 Aug 1905); London: Hammersmith Society for Women's Suffrage, 1905; 4p
  • Anon; An Historical Retrospect; London: Englishwoman's Review, 1892; 4p
  • Taylor, Mona; General Election, 1900; Hexham: [Newcastle and District Women's Suffrage Society], 1900; 2p
  • Pfeiffer, Emily; Woman's Claim. (Reprinted from The Contemporary Review, Feb 1881); London: The Contemporary Review, 1881; 15p
  • Rowlette, Isabella; The Adult Suffrage Controversy; ???; 4p
  • [Central National Society for Women's Suffrage]; Women and The Vote; London: Central National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1889; 10p
  • Curtis, George William; Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis in the Constitutional Convention of New York, at Albany, 19 Jul 1867. Women's Suffrage Tracts. No. 2; Boston: The Women's Journal, 1871; 27p

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Women's Suffrage Pamphlets, Vol 1, Part 2 of 4

Part 2 of UDC box 342:

  • Bright, Jacob; Women's Suffrage. Copy of a letter from Jacob Bright to Edwyn Holt; Manchester: Manchester Liberal Union, 1898; 2p
  • Grey, Mrs William; Is the Exercise of the Suffrage Unfeminine?; London: London National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1870; 12p
  • Davies, Emily; Parliamentary Franchise for Women 1904; (Printer Vacher and Sons, London), 1904; 45p
  • Craigen, Jessie; Letter to the Ladies of the Women's Suffrage Movement; (Printer Pewtress and Co, London), 1883 ; 16p
  • Robertson, AI; Women's Need of Representation: A Lecture Upon the Necessity of Giving Women the Parliamentary Franchise; Dublin: Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1872; 18p
  • Bright, Ursula; Extract From a Letter of Protest by Mrs Jacob Bright; Manchester: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage,c.1870; 1p
  • Hopwood, CH; Mr CH Hopwood MP, on Women's Suffrage. Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Jun 1877; ???; 1p
  • Newman, FW; Women's Wrongs; Bristol: Bristol National Society for Women's Suffrage,c.1868; 4p
  • McLaren, Walter SB; Must the Extension of the Franchise to Women be Followed by the Dissolution of Parliament?; London: Women's Political News, nd; 2p.
  • Henley, JW; Rt Hon JW Henley MP, on Women's Suffrage; ???; 1p
  • Forsyth, William; Mr W Forsyth MP, on Women's Suffrage. Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Jun 1877; ???; 1p
  • Various women; Women and the New Reform Bill. Printed circular letter signed by 76 women; c.1884-1890; 3p
  • Maxse, FA; Objections to Woman Suffrage. A Speech by Captain Maxse, RN at the Electoral Reform Conference Held at the Freemasons' Tavern, 17 Nov 1874; London: W Ridgway, 1874; 10p
  • Newman, Francis William; Professor Newman on Woman Suffrage. From the Western Morning News of 31 Jan [c.1870-1880]; 1p
  • Anon; Why Are Women Disfranchised? (Reprinted from the Fifeshire Advertiser); Kirkcaldy: The Fifeshire Advertiser, n.d.; 2p
  • Arnold, Arthur; Women's Suffrage; London: Social Science Association, 1872; 15p
  • Anon [Women's Emancipation Union]; Two-Sexed Voting, One-Sexed Schooling; Congleton: Women's Emancipation Union, n.d.; 2p
  • Anon; Sixteen Reasons for Women's Suffrage; (Printer: Harris and Oaten, Bristol), c.1880s; 2p
  • Various women; Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage. Leaflet 1; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879 ; 4p
  • Various women; Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage. Leaflet 2; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879 ; 4p
  • Various women; Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage. Leaflet 3; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879 ; 4p
  • Various women; Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage. Leaflet 4; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879; 4p
  • Various women; Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage. Leaflet 5; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879; 4p
  • Woodall, William; Mr William Woodall, MP, on Women's Suffrage; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), c.1884; 1p
  • Anon ['FES']; What the Women Want; (Printer: Langley and Son, London), n.d.; 1p
  • Stevenson, Louisa; United Women's Liberal Associations for the Extension of the Franchise to Women. Extract from the Speech of Miss Louisa Stevenson (Poor Law Guardian), in Edinburgh, 9 Mar 1889; Bristol: United Women's Liberal Associations, 1889; 1p
  • Smith, Sidney; The Enfranchisement of Women. The Law of the Land ; (Printer A. Ireland and Co, Manchester), 1879; 31p

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Women's Suffrage Pamphlets, Vol 1, Part 4 of 4

Part 4 of UDC box 342:

  • Spence, CH; Woman's Suffrage and Effective Voting. A paper read at a drawing-room meeting at Glenelg. (Reprinted from The Voice); (Printers Vardon and Pritchards, London), nd; 4p
  • Elmy, EC Wolstenholme; The Emancipation of Women (No. 3). Women's Suffrage. Reprinted from the Manchester Guardian of 12 Apr 1890; Manchester: Manchester Guardian, 1890; 4p
  • Elmy, EC Wolstenholme; Electoral Franchises of Women. Reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times, 16 Feb 1885; Manchester: Manchester Examiner and Times, 1885; 1p
  • Blackburn, Helen; Declaration of Women Householders, 1890; ??, 1890; 4p
  • Balfour, AJ; Speech in the House of Commons on Women's Suffrage. 1892; London: London Society for Women's Suffrage, 1892; 7p
  • Elmy, EC Wolstenholme; Women's Suffrage. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Manchester: Manchester Guardian, 1901; 5p
  • [Becker, Lydia]; The Political Disabilities of Women. Reprinted by permission from the Westminster Review, 1 Jan 1872; London: Westminster Review, 1872; 22p
  • Newman, Francis William; A Lecture on Women's Suffrage, Delivered in Bristol Athenaeum, 24 Feb 1869, by Emer. Prof. F W Newman for the Clifton and Bristol Society for Women's Suffrage ; Bristol: Clifton and Bristol Society for Women's Suffrage, 1869; 15p
  • Caird, Mona; The Emancipation of Women (No. 2). The Position of Women. Reprinted from the Manchester Guardian of 7 Jul 1891; Manchester: Manchester Guardian, 1891; 4p
  • Forsyth, William; Mr Forsyth QC, MP on Women's Suffrage; (Printer A Ireland and Co Manchester), nd; 1p
  • Anon (Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights); The Enfranchisement of Women and Mr Woodall's Bill; London: Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights, 1886; 2p

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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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