Seventeen volumes of papers, photographs and other records collected by the former Labour Party leader George Lansbury and his biographer and son-in-law Raymond Postgate have now been digitized and made available online by the LSE Library.

This vast archive, which covers the period 1877 to 1955 (from when Lansbury turned eighteen until sometime after his death in 1940 at the age of eighty-one), includes both political and personal correspondence and  caricatures of Lansbury, press reviews of Lansbury’s published work, articles, pamphlets, speeches, leaflets, election addresses and personal ephemera.

Among the topics covered are education, the Labour Party (of which he was leader from 1932 to 1935), unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet crisis and the Metropolitan Police.

Further information about the archive can be found in a 2022 article on the first two volumes by Daniel Payne, Curator of the Politics and International Relations archives at LSE Library, and a committee member of the George Lansbury Memorial Trust.

Volumes 1-17 of the collection are fully searchable online.

For any queries please email LSE Library.