Labour Representation Committee (1900)
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The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was a pressure group founded in 1900 as an alliance of socialist organisations and trade unions, aimed at increasing representation for labour interests in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party traces its origin to the LRC's foundation.
Labour Party Plaque from Caroone House, 14 Farringdon Street
Keir Hardie, one of the Labour Party's founders and its first leader
Leaders of the party in 1906
Independent Labour Party
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The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates. A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman.
Portrait of ILP leader Keir Hardie painted at the time of the foundation of the organisation in 1893
Kingsley Hall, Bristol headquarters of the ILP in the early 20th century
Cover of a pamphlet by the Left Wing Group of the ILP, published in Glasgow in the summer of 1920
A leaflet from Jimmie Maxton's first campaign for Parliament