The LSE is now providing full access to the full digitised archives covering 1870s-1950s of the papers of George Lansbury MP (1859 – 1940).
The archives include photographs and caricatures of Lansbury, press reviews of Lansbury’s published work, articles, pamphlets, speeches, leaflets, election addresses and personal ephemera. Topics covered in these papers include schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis and the Metropolitan Police. They also cover his role in the early women’s suffrage struggle.
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