The Daily Herald was a British daily newspaper, published daily in London from 1912 to 1964. It was published in the interest of the labour movement and supported the Labour Party. It underwent severa
The cover of the Daily Herald detailing the start of the Second World War
A handwritten letter to the Herald's literary editor Siegfried Sassoon from Arthur Quiller-Couch, about the possibility of Quiller-Couch writing for the paper
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George Lansbury was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31, he spe
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…own (launched as the Daily Citizen in October 1912). The initial organising group included Tillett, T. E. Naylor of the LSC, the socialist politician George Lansbury, Robert Williams of the Transport Workers, W. N. Ewer and Francis Meynell. Retaining the strike sheet name, they formed a Daily Herald company. Readers…
1935 portrait
Plaque on the assumed birthplace of George Lansbury in Halesworth, Suffolk. It incorrectly records Lansbury's death year as 1947.
Migrants disembarking from a ship in Brisbane, c. 1885
The Metropolitan Board of Works building in Spring Gardens near Trafalgar Square, original headquarters of the London County Council