Jane Cobden
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Emma Jane Catherine Cobden was a British Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes. A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early proponent of wome
Portrait, 1890s
A Jane Cobden campaign poster, January 1889
Members of the Women's Social and Political Union campaigning for women's suffrage in London, around 1910
Jane Cobden
George Lansbury
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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
Jane Cobden
…by the local returning officers. Cobden's campaign in Bow and Bromley was organised with considerable enthusiasm and efficiency by the 29-year-old George Lansbury, then a Radical Liberal, later a socialist and eventually leader of the Labour Party. Both Cobden and Sandhurst were victorious in the elections on 19…
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