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COLL MISC 0519/5 - Ain't You the Radical Party? (Barmyville Asylum)

Full colour lithograph showing a cheerful idiot inviting three Radicals to join him in the Barmyville Asylum.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/10 - A Doubtful Guide

Central image with title at top and caption below. Campbell-Bannerman and a small party of thuggish men stand by a street corner. One man is dressed in a fur hat and ragged clothes (Alien), another is a stereotypical Irishman with a club (Home Rule). Bannerman offers the services of his respectable party to accompany John Bull and a well-dressed lady representing the colonies down the street.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/11 - He's good enough for me

John Bull reaches out to lay his hand in a benedictory fashion upon the shoulder of a reluctant but noble-looking Balfour.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/22 - Vote for the Conservatives Who Gave You the Alliance

Cartoon showing John Bull shaking hands with a Japanese soldier, against the Union Flag and Japanese flag, with a packet marked Alliance at their feet. Text banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/39 - Why Toryism Would Mean Dearer Living

Cartoon of Balfour holding a plate in front of him with a small loaf of bread on it. Text banner at top and caption at bottom. Liberal poster protesting against a proposed tax on food.
Artist: F.B
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/40 - Obscuring the Issue

Full colour lithograph showing Balfour up a ladder in a flat cap and Chamberlain pasting a sign reading Beware of Home Rule over the top of Liberal posters criticising their taxation policies.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press Ltd
Publisher: Liberal Publications Department
Place of Production
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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.

COLL MISC 0519/2 - Poster Making Instructions

Instructions on ordering single letter posters to be hung to form slogans such as Socialism Denies Liberty and Tariff Reform Means More Work, produced by the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations.
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COLL MISC 0519/9 - Home Rule: 'Oh! Henry where did you get that cigar and why are you smoking it?'

British politicians forced to forced to endure the stink of Campbell-Bannerman's cigar of Irish Home Rule. Stylish image in three colours and black on white paper, produced for the Conservative/Unionist Party.
Artist: R. Troussel
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COLL MISC 0519/14 - Is this what you want to see?

Cartoon based on the Radical 'Infamous Poster', showing John Redmond herding a chain gang of politicians including Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, towards the Home Rule Compound. The caption at the bottom of the poster exhorts its readers to vote against, and work against, the Radical Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Witherby and Co
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/20 - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

Satire based on the nursery rhyme of the old lady who lived in a shoe, with Bannerman as the old lady, sitting in the road and blocking his ears. Behind him, the shoe is overflowing with characters representing Liberal Promises such as Social Reforms, Home Rule Promises, etc.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/23 - What an outrage!

The Reverend Stiggins (?) is shown accosting a small schoolboy in a country lane, with the words What! your father wants you to learn the Church Catechism, in a school built by the Church of England? How dare he?
Artist: M.A
Printer: A White
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/28 - The Closed Door

John Bull is seen standing outside a Church School door, which bears a sign reading For Head and Assistant Master and Mistress-ships, no Nonconformist need apply. He comments that that is not his idea of religious equality. Text caption below image, large title in upper case type above. The poster is bordered by a thick red line.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/34 - Don't be Hanky-Panky'd Again: The Hanky-Panky Government

[A J Balfour] posing as a conjuror or magician, stands behind a covered table, and places an egg named Khaki 1900 into John Bull's hat. [Joseph Chamberlain] peeks from behind the table cover holding a duck. In the next scene, Balfour withdraws two white rabbits from the hat (called Education Acts and Licensing Act 1904), while a duck called Tax on Food sits on its brim. Poster produced for the Liberal Party (based on a cartoon in the Westminster Gazette?).
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: The Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production
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COLL MISC 0519/37 - How the Tories Have Increased the Cost of Living

Blue and red ink on white paper, illustrating the increase in the price of tea and sugar under a Tory government (Tory government of 1905 compared to Liberal government of 1895), produced for the Liberal Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/86 - Wake Up. Now or Never!

Black and red ink full text poster with very detailed statistics from the Report of the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade, 1886,in order to illustrate The Cause for the Decline in British Industry.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Jackson, Wragge and Co
Publisher:
Place of Production: Manchester
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COLL MISC 0519/31 - Flattening Him Out, or, broadening the basis of taxation

A Tory wearing a monocle, spats, and a top hat with Tariff Reform written on it, is shown rolling a huge barrel called taxation over an angry-looking man of the Working Classes. Quotes from Tories about the desirability of broadening the basis of taxation appear in a cartouche to the left, and in the caption below the illustration.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Waterlow and Sons
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/5 - Progressive Lesson No. 1 in Plain English

Progressive posters from the London County Council Elections of 1907. The central point of this poster is a painted picture of a man teaching another , slightly bemused looking man, by writing on a very large blackboard. On the blackboard is written the following:
'When the Trusts own Capital, the Moderates call it by its right name: Capital. But when the people own Capital, the Moderates and the Yellow Press call it Debts to frighten fools.'
At the bottom of the poster in large black lettering is written, 'Vote Progressive'.
Artist: Jordie
Printer: G.S Christie Limited
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/10 - At the Back of Every Moderate Candidate Lurks the Electric Trust

Cartoon reprinted from the Daily Chronicle newspaper for the London County Council Elections of 1907. This cartoon is split into two different pictures. The top picture shows a group of men walking, viewed from the front, all wearing sandwich boards which spell out 'Moderate Party'. The second picture shows this same group of men viewed from the back and their boards spell out 'Electric Trust'.
Artist: David Wilson
Printer: Daily Chronicle
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0840/14 - Political Parable

Progressive poster from the London County Council Elections of 1907. Reprinted from the Westminster Gazette. This posters central feature is a long handwritten story written in nursery rhyme style. The text has cartoons at either side, showing a dog in a variety of situations.
The text at the bottom of the page reads,'Electors, beware of false names and Vote Progressive'.
Artist:
Printer: Carl Hentschel Ltd
Publisher: London County Council Progressive Election Committee
Place of Production: London
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