The Independent Labour Party 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
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
The Scottish Labour Party, also known as the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, was formed by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first socialist MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, who l
Independent Labour Party
…organiser in the Lanarkshire coalfield. Working with SDF members such as Henry Hyde Champion and Tom Mann he was instrumental in the foundation of the Scottish Labour Party in 1888. In 1890, the United States imposed a tariff on foreign cloth; this led to a general cut in wages throughout the British textile industry. There…
Scottish Labour Party membership card