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Description: | George Lansbury was a Labour politician, and served as an MP, councillor, and leader of the Labour Party. He was MP for Bow and Bromley from December 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940. Lansbury resigned his seat in 1912 to force a by-election (which he lost) on the subject of women's suffrage. He was twice imprisoned, once over his support for the suffragettes, and once for his role in the Poplar Rates Rebellion when he was leader of the Council. He returned to Parliament for the same seat in 1922 and was leader of the Labour Party following its electoral meltdown in 1931. This poster dates to his first campaigns for Parliament in 1910. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Unknown Copyright | Subjects: | Power and Politics | Temporal: | 1910 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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