The papers of George Lansbury MP (1859 – 1940), which 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.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 4
The first digital file in the Part 4 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

1. George Barker, 1933.
2. Samuel Augustus Barnett, undated.
3. Vladimir D. Bonch-Bruevich, c1920.
4. W. Dingwall, 1927.
5. Sir George Edwards, undated.
6. James Keir Hardie, undated.
7. Reverend John Fenwick Kitto,1880.
8. Hermann Molkenbuhr, undated.
9. Montagu Samuel Montagu, undated.
10. Rita Ricardo, 1934.
11. Mr Tarling, 1875.
12. Sidney Webb, 1924.
13. Bow Church, undated.
14. Socialist Literature Depot, Hastings 1910.
15. National Union of Clerks, Leeds conference, undated.
16. Group at Women's Labour League conference, including Margaret Bondfield, Portsmouth, January 1909

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.
• 2. George and Bessie Lansbury with their five children, c 1890. Tin-type original and modern copy.
• 3. Lansbury and group at demonstration in support of Tom Mann, Victoria Park, June 1936.
• 4. Lansbury, c 1906.
• 5. Lansbury, c 1906.
• 6. Lansbury and group, c 1906.
• 7. Family group at Shoreham, c 1909.
• 8. George Lansbury, David Bowman, James Keir Hardie, and Thomas Richardson, 1911.
• 9. Lansbury and 'rations', c 1915.
• 10-12. Lansbury and Queen Mary visit Poplar Training School, Shenfield 1919.
• 13. George and Bessie Lansbury in Leningrad, 1921.
• 14. George and Bessie Lansbury, c 1920s.
• 15-16. Lansbury, c 1920s-1930s.
• 17. Opening of Poplar Electricity Works, dinner at Hotel Cecil, April 1927.
• 18. Lansbury, c1929 .
• 19-20. Lansbury at an unidentified public ceremony c 1929- 30.
• 21. Lansbury with Professor V G Childe at Neolithic village in the Orkneys, c 1929-1930.
• 22. Lansbury dictating to his daughter Daisy, 1929 .
• 23-24. Lansbury sitting for his portrait, with artist Reginald Brill, 1930.
• 25. Lansbury and Peter Lee, portraits on a banner for Elemore Lodge, Durham miners' association, c 1920s-1930s.
• 26-27. Lansbury, c 1930s.
• 28. George and Bessie Lansbury c1930s.
• 29. Lansbury at St Margaret's Bay, August 1931.
• 30-33. Lansbury and family members, in the grounds of a hotel at Rothesay, c 1933.
• 34. Lansbury in hospital bed, with two grandsons at his side, c 1933-1934 .
• 35. Lansbury in hospital bed after breaking his leg, with two grandsons at his side Christmas 1933.
• 36. Lansbury in hospital bed, February 1934.
• 37. Lansbury leaving hospital, 1934.
• 38-39. Lansbury at the wedding of Mari Stephenson 1934.
• 40. Lansbury at his birthplace, August 1934.
• 41. Lansbury, c 1934.
• 42. 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.
• 45. Lansbury at the funeral of King George V, 1936 .
• 46. 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.
• 57. Newspaper cutting of Lansbury with his 22nd grandchild, 1939

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/26 Part 3
The first digital file in the Part 3 contains all the images bundled up in a pdf file. Subsequent files are individual images, front and back, in jpg file format.

• 1. Doreen and Constance Lansbury, 1899.
• 2-5. Minnie Lansbury, undated.
• 6. Minnie Lansbury 1920.
• 7-9. Minnie Lansbury, undated.
• 10. William Arthur Lansbury c1914-1918.
• 11. Unknow, undated

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/17 part 7
Correspondence between Professor Raymond William Postgate, Lansbury's son-in-law and biographer, and others after the death of George Lansbury, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
275-276. List by Raymond Postgate of correspondence received after the death of Lansbury in May, 1940.
277-279. Correspondence between Lady Reginald Clifford Allen and Raymond Postgate 17 January-7 February 1949.
280-282. Letter from Reverend Father Andrew to Reverend R. G. Legge with 'reminiscences' about Lansbury, 2 January 1943.

283. Memories of Lansbury by John Armitage, c1949.
     284-285. Letters from Reverend Gilbert Clive Binyon to Rev R. G. Legge and Raymond Postgate, 7-12 January 1943.
     286-290. Letter from Joe Brown to Daisy Postgate, 9 May 1940.
     291-293. Correspondence between Reverend Kenneth George Budd and Raymond Postgate, 26 January-7 February 1949.
284. Letter from Reverend John Charles Carlile to Raymond Postgate, 9 August 1940.
     295-296. Letter from Leonard Castle to Raymond Postgate, 10 July 1940.
     297-298. Correspondence between Raymond Postgate and Percy Cudlipp, 15-26 October, 1948.299-301. Letter from Elizabeth M. Dice to Raymond Postgate, 5 July 1940.
285. Letter from Reverend Frederic Lewis Donaldson to Raymond Postgate, 6 January 1943.
     303-304. Letter from Fellowship of Reconciliation to Daisy Postgate, 22 July 1940.
286. Letter from Sardar D. V. Gorkhale to Daisy Postgate, 10 May 1940 .
     306-307. Correspondence between Raymond Postgate and Mary Agnes Hamilton,12-15November 1948.
     308-309. Correspondence between H. B. Hampton and Raymond Postgate, 23 June 1948.
     310-311. Correspondence between Raymond Postgate and Arthur Henderson, 22-25 October 1948.
     312-313. Correspondence between William Watson Henderson and Raymond W Postgate, 8-12 November 1948.
287. Letter from Mayor of Karachi to Lansbury family, 21 May 1940.
     315-318. Correspondence between Raymond Postgate and Charles William Key, 26 May-21 September 1948.
     319-320. Correspondence between Raymond Postgate and A. L. Scott, 19-25 November, 1948.
     321-322. Correspondence between Lady Pethick-Lawrence and Raymond Postgate, 6-11 January 1949.
288. Letter from Reverend Robert George Legge to Raymond Postgate, 9 January 1943.
289. Letter from Muriel Lester to Raymond Postgate, 27 January 1943.
290. Letter from Reverend Dr Stephen Liberty to Raymond Postgate, 1 April 1943.
291. 'Song of an Awakened Radical' about Lansbury, date unknown.
292. Verse of 'memories' of Lansbury, by E. Merrigan, 1943.
     328-329. Correspondence between Reverend A. Stanley Parker and Raymond Postgate, 29 July-2 August 1949.
     330-331. Letters from Peace Pledge Union to Raymond Postgate, 20 May 1940.
     332-333. Correspondence between Hubert William Peet and Raymond Postgate, 30-31 December 1948.
293. Letter from F. Piercey to Raymond Postgate, 6 July 1940.
     335-336. Correspondence between Owen Rattenbury and Raymond Postgate, 1-9 August, 1949.
294. Letter from Reverend Arthur Binny Ritchie to Reverend Robert George Legge, 18 December 1942 .
     338-344. Letters from William Corbett Roberts to Raymond Postgate, 8-12 January 1943.
     345-346. Letter from Eric G. Ruffle to Raymond Postgate, 15 July 1940.
     347-353. Correspondence between H. W. Sewell and Raymond Postgate, 3 July 1940-April 1950.
295. Letter from Reverend Albert James Smith to Reverend Robert George Legge, 21 December 1942.
     355-357. Correspondence between Mary Stewart and Raymond Postgate, 8 July-6 August 1940.
296. Letter from L. N. Gubil [Sundarana?] to Lansbury family, 20 May 1940.
297. Letter from Raymond Postgate to Times newspaper, 3 December 1948 .
298. Letter from Raymond Postgate to Tribune Publications Ltd, 3 December1948.
     361-363. Letter from Peter Whiskin to Raymond Postgate, 21 January 1942.
     364-366. Letter from R. White to Raymond Postgate, 7 July 1940.
     367-370. Letter from George Ernest Winterton to Raymond Postgate, August 1940.
     371-377. Correspondence between British Library of Political and Economic Science and the Cripps family, 17 June-1 September 1955