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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 0519/26 - 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 0519/29 - 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 0519/89 - What Price Today?

Lithograph showing a small boy trying to buy bread in a Free Trade store, but being told by the shopkeeper that he does not have enough money. The shelves are stocked with produced from the USA, Holland, Germany and France.
Poster produced by the Tariff Reform League.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co
Publisher: Tariff Reform League
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 0519/30 - An Eye Opener

Black and red ink on white paper. Lithograph produced for the Liberal Party showing a British housewife attempting to buy white bread in a shop in German, but being offered only black bread.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
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 0519/28 - 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 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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COLL MISC 0519/43 - A Question of Control

Lithograph in red and black ink on white page, showing John Bull stopping Lansdowne and Balfour in the street, who have a large bulldog representing the House of Commons reined in on a leash called Lords Tory Majority.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press Ltd
Publsher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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