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/1 part 4

• 137-143. Letters from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 4-29 January 1892.
• 144. Letter from L. T. Mallet to Lansbury, 7 February 1892.
• 145-147. Letters from Corrie Grant, QC, to Lansbury, 18 March-? 1892.
• 148-149. Letters to W. C. Sewell from Lansbury, 1-2 April 1892.
• 150. Antimilitarism speech by Lansbury, featured in The Arbitrator, May 1892.
• 151-152. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 18 May 1892.
• 151A. Receipt for Sewell for the sale of a piano by S. A. Brine, 27 May 1893.
• 153-154. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [1892-1895?].
• 155. Letter from J. E. Watts-Ditchfield to Lansbury, 8 July 1892.
• 156-157. Letter from J. A. Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 11 July [1892?].
• 158-159. Letter from Corrie Grant, QC, 26 July [1892?].
• 160. Newspaper article of Lansbury cleaning a church, 1912.
• 161-162. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, between August 1892 and July 1895.
• 163-164. Letter from Corrie Grant to Lansbury, 26 September [1892?].
• 165-172. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 21 October-15 December 1892.
• 173-174. Letter from S Montagu, First Baron of Swaythling, to Lansbury, 21 April 1892.

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• 227-230. Letters to WC Sewell from Lansbury, [1895?].
• 231. Newspaper article about Lansbury discussing unemployment at the Vestry, [February 1895?].
• 232. Leaflet authored by Lansbury concerning unemployment, 11 April 1905.
• 233. Letter from the Royal Commission on the Aged Poor to Lansbury, 17 April 1895.
• 233A. Questions from Lansbury concerning immigration in Queensland, n.d.
• 234-241. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [early May?]-6 May 1895.
• 242-243. Letter from Charlotte Skerritt to Lansbury, 10 May 1895.
• 244-245. Letter from William Dingwall to Lansbury, 14 May 1895.
• 246-247. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 15 May [1895?].
• 248-249. 'A Socialist View of the Government', Magazine article by Lansbury in the National Review, June 1895.
• 250-251. Letter from WE Knollys to Lansbury, 6 June 1895.
• 252-253. Proposal regulation for farm employment at Laindon Farm Colony, n.d.
• 254-255. Letter from HB Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 4 July 1895.
• 256-259. Letters from Lionel Raleigh Holland to Lansbury, 21-29 July 1895.
• 260-266. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 5-27 August 1895.
• 267-268. Letter from HM Hyndman, 25 August 1895.
• 269-270. Letter from HB Reynolds, Jr. to Lansbury, 28 August 1895.
• 271-272. Letter from HJ Watkinson to Lansbury, 30 August 1895.
• 273-274. Letter from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, [August 1895?].
• 275. Letter from Herbert Burrows to Lansbury, 9 September 1895.
• 276-281. Letters from JA Murray Macdonald to Lansbury, 21 October-11 November 1895.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/5 part 3
96-103. Letter and manuscript from Montague R Levenson, 25 June 1912.
104-105. Letter from AD Macpherson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
106-109. Letter, copy letter, and newspaper article from T Miller Maguire to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.

110. Letter from Mark Melford to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     111-112. Letter from Helen M Nidd to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     113-114. [Missing?].
111. Letter from Walt Chester Sewell to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     116-119. Letter from Andrew Sloan to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
112. Letter from AH Smith to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
113. Letter from Frank Smith to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     122-123. Letter from Sarah E Waller Stevens to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
114. Letter from T Smithies Taylor to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
     125-126. Letter from S Weevill Turner to Lansbury, June 25 1912.
115. Letter from EH Watson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
116. Letter from a 'Well Wisher' to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
117. Letter from Reverend PET Widdrington to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
118. Letter from Gertrude Wilkinson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
119. Letter from Sara Cower Wilson to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
120. Letter from F.A.Underwood, Secretary of the Women's Freedom League, to Lansbury, 25 June 1911.
121. Letter from M Bridges Adams to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
122. Telegraph from Aitken to Lansbury, 25 June 1912.
123. Letter from H da Costa Andrade to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
124. Letter from W Andrade to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
125. Letter from Anonymous to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     138-139. Letter from WH Archibold to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
126. Telegraph from Baker to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     141-142. Letter from J Saword Beanland to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
127. Letter from Ernest Bell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
128. Letter from Alfred John Billinghurst to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
129. Telegraph from Mrs Henry Noel Brailsford to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     146-147. Letter from Christina Sinclair Bremmer to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
130. Letter from Kathleen Buske to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     149-150. Letter from Mrs Humphrey C Butler to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
131. Letter from Reverend GW Grundy, Valley End Vicarage, to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

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152. Letter from Joseph Clayton to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     153-154. Letter from Reverend William Frederick Geikie-Cobb to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
153. Letter from 'Conservative' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
154. Letter from 'A Conservative' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
155. Letter from 'Several Conservative Women' to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     158-159. Letter from Emma Cowles to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     160-161. Letter from W Harris Crook to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
156. Letter from Gordon Crosse to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
157. Letter from Reverend George Herbert Davis to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     164-165. Letter from Evelyn Diplock to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     166-167. Letter from John Donnell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     168-169. Letter from Nannie Florence Dryhurst to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
158. Letter from AME to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
159. Letter from Alice Everett to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
160. Letter from Reverend Richard Brundell Lawson Exton to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
161. Letter from Ethel Gordon Fenwick to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     174-175. Letter from Mrs CE Ferris to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     176-177. Letter from Frank Mosley Fletcher to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
162. Letter from Jean Forsyth to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     179-183. Letters from Mary Gawthorpe to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     184-185. Letter from Mrs P King George to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     186-187. Letter from Aimee E Mills Gibbs to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
163. Letter from Ethel Mary Goodman to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
164. Letter from Reverend HM Green to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     190-191. Letter from Jean Greive to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     192-195. Letter from Reverend Charles E Griffin to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
165. Letter from Joan Baillie Guthrie to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     197-198. Letter from Robert Guthrie to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
166. Letter from Hugh Gwyther to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

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200-201. Letter from Cicely B Hale to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
202-203. Letter from Rebecca H Scott Wakeham to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

204. Letter from Mrs O Hancock to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     205-206. Letter from Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
205. Letter from Henry D Harben to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     208-209. Letter from Katie Harris to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
206. Letter from K Harvey to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     211-212. Letter from Harry Haworth to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
207. Letter from Samuel Healy to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     214-215. Letter from Beatrice C Heap to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     216-217. Letter from Fannie Helliwell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     218-219. Letter from S Hemsley to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     220-221. Letter from Mrs B Hewitson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
208. Letter from Patricia Hoey to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
209. Letter from Mrs Henry Holiday to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
210. Letter from Vera Holme to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
211. Letter from William E Hopkins to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
212. Letter from John Horrobin to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     227-228. Letter from Robert Horsfield to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     229-230. Letter from WH Hudson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     231-232. Letter from Sarah Hume to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     233-234. Letter from Alfred Hurley to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
213. Letter from the Colchester Independent Labour Party to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
214. Letter from Tom Powell to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     237-238. Letter from H Inglis to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
215. Letter from Edward M Jeans to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
216. Letter from W Jenkins to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
217. Letter from Dorothy Jewson to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
218. Letter from John Ruskin Invalid School to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     243-244. Letter from Charles Atlan Jones to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
219. Letter from the Judicial Injustice Redress Society to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     246-247. Letter from Agnes Kelly to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.
     248-250. Letter from JG Kelly to Lansbury, 26 June 1912.

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/6 part 4

150. Letter from Lily Ross to Lansbury, 8 October 1912.
     151-153. Letter from FW Pethick-Lawrence to Lansbury, 26 October 1912.
151. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 29 October 1912.
     155-156. Letter from Mary Fels to Lansbury, 29 October 1912.
     157-160. Letter from May Tennant to Lansbury, 31 October 1912. .
     161-162. Letter from Marie Therese Stuart to Lansbury, [October or November?] 1912.
     163-165. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 3 November 1912.
152. Letter from Gordon Crosse to Lansbury, 12 November 1912.
153. Letter from James Lansbury to Lansbury, 13 November 1912.
154. Letter from Alexander Begg to Lansbury, 14 November 1912.
     169-170. Platform manifesto by Lansbury to the electors of Bow and Bromley, Parliamentary by-election, mid-November 1912.
155. Newspaper article about meetings featuring Lansbury, mid-November 1912.
     172-174. Newspaper articles in 'Votes for Women' about Lansbury's pro-suffragist activities.
     175-179. Letters from J Scotney to Lansbury, 17 November 1912.
     180-181. Letter from Rowland Kenney to Lansbury, 18 November 1912.
156. Letter from Lansbury to Reverend HA Mason, 19 November 1912.
     183-184. Letter from Helen Gordon Clark to Lansbury, 21 November 1912.
     185-186. Letter from Amy Quinton to Mary Neal, 21 November 1912.
157. Newspaper cartoon in the 'Daily Express' of Lansbury, 22 November 1912.
     188-189. Letter from Ella Inglis, Honorary Secretary of the Irishwomen's Reform League, to Lansbury, 22 November 1912.
     190-191. Letter from George E Startup to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
     192-193. Letter from D Christie Tait to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
     194-195. Letter from Hannah Windbolt to Lansbury, 23 November 1912.
158. Letter from Edwin M [Bunningham?], Secretary of the British Socialist Party, 24 November 1912.
159. Letter from Gladys Evans to Lansbury, 24 November 1912.
     198-199. Letter from Mary Leigh to George and Elizabeth Lansbury, 24 November 1912.

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261-262. Letter from Minnie O'Brien to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
263-264. Letter from Miss A Palfreman to Lansbury, 27 November 1912. .
265-266. Letter from EJ Parsons to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.

267. Letter from William Corbett Roberts to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
268. Letter from Margot Forbes-Robertson to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
269. Letter from Salmon to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     270-271. Letter from Mabel Sennet to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     272-273. Letter from Wait Chester Sewell to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
270. Letter from William Penn Stringer to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
271. Letter from Barbara Tchaykovsky to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
272. Letter from Jane Cobden to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     277-278. Letter from Edward Webster, Superintendent of Edmonton Union, to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     279-280. Letter from Ethel Wedgwood to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     281-282. Letter from Mary Willock to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
273. Letter from Rose Lamartine Yates, Organising Secretary and Treasurer of the Wimbledon Women's Social and Political Union, to Lansbury, 27 November 1912.
     284-285. Letter from Gertrude Francis, Secretary of the Bath Church Socialist League, to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     286-287. Letter from CL Collier to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     288-289. Letter from Rowland Kenney of 'Daily Herald' to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
274. Letter from C Stuart Smith to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
275. Letter from HR Stockman to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
276. Letter from SE Turquand to Lansbury, 28 November 1912.
     293-296. Letter from Ernest Thurtle to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     297-298. Letter from Patricia Waddel to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
277. Letter from K Patton, Secretary of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     300-303. Letter from George ED Durnford to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
     304-305. Letter from Frederick Young to Lansbury, 29 November 1912.
278. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 30 November 1912.
     307-309. Letter from Marion Coates Hansen to Lansbury, 30 November 1912.
     310-311. Letter from Helen Tyson to Lansbury, 1 December 1912.
     312-313. Letter from James O'Grady to Lansbury, 2 December 1912.
279. Letter from William A Brothers to Lansbury, 2 December 1912.
280. Newspaper article on Lansbury and the Labour Party, 4 December 1912.
281. Letter from E Hood, Secretary of Poplar Trades Council and LRC, to Lansbury, 5 December 1912. .
     317-318. Letter from Eleanor Coates to Lansbury, 10 December 1912.
     319-321. Letter from Men's Federation for Women's Suffrage to Lansbury, 14 December 1912.
     322-323. Letter from Amy Johnson, Secretary of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, to Lansbury, 16 December 1912.
     324-325. Letter from Ada Cripps to Lansbury, 17 December 1912.
     326-327. Letter from George Nicoll Barnes to Lansbury, 21 December 1912.
282. Letter from Arthur E Power to Lansbury, 23 December 1912.
283. Letter from HJ Kitcat to Lansbury, 23 December 1912.
     330-331. Christmas card from Tom Donald to Lansbury, 24 December 1912.
284. Letter from Reverend George Lowther Davey to Lansbury, 26 December 1912.
     333-334. Letter from Mary Fels to Elizabeth and George Lansbury, 30 December 1912.
285. Letter from Bertha Kunz Baker to Lansbury, [1912?].
     336-337. Letter from Mary and Joseph Fels to Lansbury, [1912?].

LSE Archives reference: LANSBURY/7 part 1

1. Missing.
   2-3. Letter from Olive Tilford Dargan to Lansbury, 6 January 1913.
2. Article detailing Joseph Fels' advocacy of single tax, from Times newspaper, 10 January 1913.
   5-7. Article by Lansbury entitled 'Socialists and Socialism' from Daily Herald newspaper, 13 January 1913.
3. Article by Robert Owen entitled 'A word to the Labour party caucus' from Daily Herald Newspaper, 17 January 1913.
   9-10. Letter from John Oue to 'Joe', 17 January 1913.
4. Memorandum from London County Council to Lansbury, 21 January 1913.
   12-13. Letter from Tom Donald to Lansbury, 24 January 1913.
   14-15. Letter from Sarah Harris to Lansbury, 30 January 1913.
   16-17. Letter from Deborah Webb to Lansbury, 30 January 1913.
5. Letter from Joseph Fels to Lansbury, 10 February 1913.
6. Article about Lansbury's 'call for funds' from the Daily Herald Newspaper, 14 February 1913.
   20-23. Letter from Mrs. Frederick Hansen to Lansbury, 17 February 1913.
   24-25. Newspaper article with photograph reporting members of Lansbury's family receiving punishments for law breaking during the suffragist campaign, 19 February 1913.
   26-27. Letter from the Home Office to Lansbury, 19 February 1913.
7. Letter from David C Lamb to Lansbury, 19 February 1913.
8. Letter from Barbara Tchaykovsky to Lansbury, 23 February 1913.
9. Letter from Ernest Thurtle to Bessie Lansbury, 21 March 1913.
   31-32. Letter from Evelyn Sharp to Lansbury, 17 April 1913.
   33-34. Letter from Henry D. Harben to Lansbury, 6 May 1913.
10. Letter from Ben Tillett to Lansbury, 9 May 1913.
    36-37. Letter from Daily Herald League to Lansbury, 10 May 1913.
    38-39. Letter from Lady Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Bessie Lansbury, 14 May 1913 .
    40-41. Letter from Eliza Gill to Bessie Lansbury, 1913.
    42-43. Letter from J.Murphy to Lansbury, 14 May 1913 .
11. Newspaper article about the Church Socialist League, 15 May 1913.
12. Newspaper article about Sylvia Pankhurst, May 1913 .
13. Newspaper article about Lansbury's imprisonment, 31 July 1913.
14. Newspaper article about House of Commons responses to Lansbury's imprisonment and his subsequent hunger strike, 1 August 1913.
    48-49. Letter from Lady Emmeline Pethick Lawrence to Lansbury, 16 May 1913.

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104. Newspaper article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald, 'The Dayspring in Russia' 18 March 1920.
105. Newspaper cutting from the Daily Herald, as Lansbury returns from trip to Russia, 20 March 1920.
106. Newspaper article from the Daily Herald detailing Lansbury's talks in Russia, 3 April 1920.
107. Newspaper article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald for Whitsun, 1920.
108. Cartoon from Punch featuring Lansbury, 22 September 1920.
109. Newspaper photograph of Edgar Lansbury and his wife, 22 September 1920.
110. Letter from The London Scout Council to Lansbury, 30 December 1920.
111. Letter from Charles Alfred Cripps to Lansbury, 31 December 1920.
112. Open letter from Daniel and Rosa Kiefer, December 1920.
113. Letter from Frank Smith to Lansbury, 2 January 1921.
     114-117. Order of service for the funeral of Mary Macarthur, 1 January 1921.
114. Article by Lansbury entitled 'Our friends, our fortunes and our future' from the Daily Herald, 19 February 1921.
     119-120. Letters from Lansbury to Wait Chester Sewell, 29 February 1921.
     121-122. Letter from Lady Somerset to Lansbury, c 1921.
     123-124. Letter from Elizabeth Crooks to Lansbury, 13 June 1921.
     125-126. Newspaper cutting from the Daily News, detailing Poplar council arrests due to refusal to levy rates, includes photograph of Lansbury, 3 September 1921.
115. Article by Lansbury from the Daily Herald entitled 'Still Unemployed', 29 October 1921.
116. Letter from Walter Coates to Lansbury, 21 December 1921.
117. Letter from Edward Noel Buxton to Lansbury, 23 December 1921.
118. Open letter to Poplar Training School from the head, William B.Dean, Christmas 1921.
119. Letter from David Graham Pole to Lansbury, 24 December 1921.
     132-133. Letter from Paul Bridgeman to Lansbury, 26 December 1921.
120. Card from Rev.Manley Power to Lansbury, 31 December 1921.
     135-138. Letter from Edgar Lansbury to his parents Bessie and George, c December 1921.

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286. Letter from Edith Ruth Mansell Moullin to Lansbury, 23 December 1927.
287. Card from Rev.Charles Gore to Lansbury, December 1927.
     288-289. Letter from Jessie Graham Pole to Lansbury, 24 December 1927.
288. Telegram from Harry Day to Lansbury, December 1927.
     291-292. Letter from Joseph Bentley to Lansbury, 30 December 1927.
289. Newspaper cutting about the death of James Lansbury, c 1928.
     294-297. Letter from Joe Brown to Lansbury, 13 January 1928.
290. Card from Edward Carpenter to Lansbury, 26 January 1929.
     299-302. Speech on unemployment made by Lansbury to House of Commons, 9 February 1928.
291. Letter from Henry William Lee to Lansbury, 14 February 1928.
292. Letter from William H.Lee to Lansbury, 15 February 1928.
     305-306. Letter from Frank Smith to Lansbury, 21 February 1928.
     307-309. Letter from Dorothy Thurtle to George and Bessie Lansbury, 21 February 1928.
     310-311. Letter from Arthur W.Brine to Lansbury, 19 April 1928.
293. Letter from W.Dingwall to Lansbury, 20 May 1928.
294. Menu covered in autographs, 6 November 1928.
295. Letter from Mrs. Francis Horrabin to Lansbury, 19 November 1928.
296. Letter from Elsie M.Clayton to Lansbury, 26 November 1928.
297. Letter from Rev.Harry Williams to Lansbury, 20 December 1928.
298. Letter from Henry J.Kitcat to Lansbury, 21 December 1928.
299. Card from Rev.Charles Gore to Lansbury, 21 December 1928.
300. Card from Cosmo Gordon Lang to Lansbury, 22 December 1928.
301. Card from Tom Shaw to Lansbury, 28 December 1928