As the new year approaches, here are our top ten labour history anniversaries for 2024. Read all about them at sslh.org.uk/2023/12/31/ten…

Socialist historian Sheila Rowbotham is talking about EP Thompson & The Making of the English Working Class on BBC Radio 3 on 4 December at 22.45 keith flett Socialist History Journal

An East End 'Last Supper'? 🎨 🤔

This very 1970s scene was photographed at Whitechapel Art Gallery for Tower Hamlets Arts Project's 'Big Show' on 13 November 1976.

Where you there, and more importantly how were the sandwiches? 🥪🍵 #EYAArt

One for #EYAArt Explore Your Archive

George Lansbury sitting for his portrait with artist Reginald Brill, 1930, from LSE Library

A great display of humanity and compassion. A most impressive lecture by Alf Dubs LSE George Lansbury #LSELansbury youtu.be/hDgvGfW2ivg?si…

“Yours is a strange nature”

Read the phrenology report of George Lansbury, written by magician and convicted fraudster Cosmo Leon Kendal! Phrenology is the pseudoscience that predicts mental traits from bumps on the skull. Page 26: lse-atom.arkivum.net/uploads/r/poli…

Listening to this session now. LSE for the George Lansbury lecture reflecting on Britain's response to refugees and the global situation. #LSELansbury . Alf Dubs stressed that public opinion is essential in the support of #refugees and gave many examples of where public…

Fortunate to be listening to Alf Dubs LSE for the George Lansbury lecture reflecting on Britain's response to refugees and the global situation. #LSELansbury

Amazing to see that they have digitalised the George Lansbury Archives.

Who knows what hidden gems will be found?

A new podcast of me talking about this most left wing of Labour leaders

I’m looking forward to hearing what Lord Dubs has to say about the Rwanda ruling at his George Lansbury Memorial Lecture tonight George Lansbury Society for the Study of Labour History RadicalHistoryCollective Refugees International

Podcast alert: Listen to this fascinating new podcast with Chair of our trust Prof Pippa Catterall 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 on the life of George Lansbury, with curator Daniel Payne, recorded at LSE Library redheavenproject.com/episodes/georg…

There are many letters from refugee organisations and individuals addressed to George asking for help escaping the Nazis.

One example shows George intervening on behalf of Erwin Strunz, a young man from Austria, to help him emigrate to New Zealand. Page 7 lse-atom.arkivum.net/uploads/r/poli…