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Beatrice Webb's Diaries

  • uklse-dl1wd01
  • Collection
  • 1873-1943

The diaries of Beatrice Webb (1858 – 1943), including the original manuscript volumes and typescript copies with associated ephemera. Webb kept a diary from 1873 until her death in 1943, providing a detailed account of her life and work. Topics covered include the Fabian Society, the Labour Party, trade unionism, the suffrage movement, LSE, local government and communism, as well as details of Webb’s personal life, her marriage to Sidney Webb and descriptions of friends and acquaintances.

Correspondence and papers, 1877-1888

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 1

  • 1-4. Letters from Elizabeth Jane Brine (later Mrs George Lansbury) to 'Alice' (later Mrs W. C. Sewell), 13 and 20 July 1877.
  • 5-25. Letters from Lansbury to W. C. Sewell, 20 July 1877-29 April 1879.
  • 26-27. Letter from Lansbury to James Lansbury, 31 May 1880.
  • 28-33. Letters from Lansbury to W. C. Sewell, 17 July 1880-12 July 1881.
    1. Advert for Bow and Bromley Liberal and Radical Association, 1890.
  • 35-36. Letter from Alf Everett to Lansbury, [1884?].
    1. Immigration and Emigration by Sea, copied by Lansbury from the Queensland Blue Book, 1884.
  • 38-39. Enquiry by Lansbury about social conditions in Australia, 1886.
  • 40-44. Notes by Lansbury in response to a circular, [1884?].
    1. Letter to Lansbury from W. Hoffman, [1885-1895?].
    1. Leaflet advertising meeting for 'What is the Truth about Emigration?', with Lansbury as cosignator, [1886?].
    1. Newspaper clipping from the Sydney Correspondence, 5 February 1886.
  • 48-53. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [1886?].
  • 54-55. Letter from H. B. Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 31 December 1886.

Fabian Society and Young Fabians

  • UKLSE-DL1FS01
  • Collection
  • 1884-2009

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".

COLL MISC 0519/74 - The Tax-payers' Financial Barometer

Full text poster in black on white paper, with large graphs in blue and red ink. The graphs compare the expenditure of Tory and Liberal governments between 1875-1886, to the detriment of the Liberals.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: C Terry and Co
Publisher: John Hall
Place of Production: London
Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.

COLL MISC 0519/38 - Liberal and Tory Finance. No. 1. Taxation Imposed or Remitted During the Last Twenty-one Years

Half page of text with bar chart comparing levels of taxation under Tory and Liberal governments, 1865-1885. Lithograph in black ink with red and blue bar chart, produced for the Liberal Central Association, 41 - 42 Parliament Street, Westminster, London.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: National Press Agency Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.

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.

COLL MISC 0519/75 - Liberal and Tory Finance, No. 3: National Debt

Three colour lithograph (black, blue, red) produced for the Liberal Central Association, comparing the Liberals record on reducing the National Debt with that of the Conservatives, between 1865 - 1885. Mostly text, with a large graph.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: National Press Agency Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.

Photographs of George Lansbury

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 1
The first digital file in the Part 1 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

    1. Lansbury, c 1889, aged 30.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury with their five children, c 1890. Tin-type original and modern copy.
    1. Lansbury and group at demonstration in support of Tom Mann, Victoria Park, June 1936.
    1. Lansbury, c 1906.
    1. Lansbury, c 1906.
    1. Lansbury and group, c 1906.
    1. Family group at Shoreham, c 1909.
    1. George Lansbury, David Bowman, James Keir Hardie, and Thomas Richardson, 1911.
    1. Lansbury and 'rations', c 1915.
  • 10-12. Lansbury and Queen Mary visit Poplar Training School, Shenfield 1919.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury in Leningrad, 1921.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury, c 1920s.
  • 15-16. Lansbury, c 1920s-1930s.
    1. Opening of Poplar Electricity Works, dinner at Hotel Cecil, April 1927.
    1. Lansbury, c1929 .
  • 19-20. Lansbury at an unidentified public ceremony c 1929- 30.
    1. Lansbury with Professor V G Childe at Neolithic village in the Orkneys, c 1929-1930.
    1. Lansbury dictating to his daughter Daisy, 1929 .
  • 23-24. Lansbury sitting for his portrait, with artist Reginald Brill, 1930.
    1. Lansbury and Peter Lee, portraits on a banner for Elemore Lodge, Durham miners' association, c 1920s-1930s.
  • 26-27. Lansbury, c 1930s.
    1. George and Bessie Lansbury c1930s.
    1. Lansbury at St Margaret's Bay, August 1931.
  • 30-33. Lansbury and family members, in the grounds of a hotel at Rothesay, c 1933.
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed, with two grandsons at his side, c 1933-1934 .
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed after breaking his leg, with two grandsons at his side Christmas 1933.
    1. Lansbury in hospital bed, February 1934.
    1. Lansbury leaving hospital, 1934.
  • 38-39. Lansbury at the wedding of Mari Stephenson 1934.
    1. Lansbury at his birthplace, August 1934.
    1. Lansbury, c 1934.
    1. Lansbury and Arthur Henderson arriving for the TU Congress in Weymouth, September,1934.
  • 43-44. Lansbury, after resigning the leadership of the Labour party, c1935-1936.
    1. Lansbury at the funeral of King George V, 1936 .
    1. Newspaper cutting of Lansbury with his daughter Daisy at the Labour party conference, Bournemouth, October 1937.
  • 47-56. Lansbury and others during 'Peace tour' in South-Eastern Europe,1938-1939.
    1. Newspaper cutting of Lansbury with his 22nd grandchild, 1939

Correspondence and papers, 1889

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/1 part 2

  • 56-57. Letter from Mallet to Lansbury, 25 January 1889.
  • 58-59. Letter from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 3 February 1889.
  • 60-64. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 17 February [1889-1890?].
    1. Letter from Baron Samuel Montagu to Lansbury, 24 March 1889.
    1. Letter from H. Rutter to Lansbury, 16 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Mark Dalton to Lansbury, 1889.
  • 68-69. Letter from E. Goodman to Bessie Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
  • 70-71. Letter from James Lansbury to George Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Lindsey to Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Jane Oxley to Elizabeth Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
  • 74-75. Letter from Aunt and Uncle of Elizabeth Lansbury[?] to Elizabeth and George Lansbury, [1889?].
  • 76-77. Letter from Reverend J. Pullein Thompson to Lansbury, 17 April 1889.
    1. Letter from Henry W. J. Hall to Lansbury, [April?] 1889.
    1. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 18 April 1889.
    1. Letter from H. B. Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 18 April 1889.
    1. Letter from A. E. Symonds to Lansbury, 19 April 1889.
  • 82-83. Letter from Henry J. Watkinson, MP, to Lansbury, 20 April 1889.
  • 84-85. Letter from Elizabeth Lansbury to Alice Sewell, 5 June 1889.
    1. Letter from Samuel L. Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 1 September 1889.
  • 87-98. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 15 November-24 December [1889?].
    1. Letter from Lansbury to Wait Chester Sewell, n.d.
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