Minnie Lansbury
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Minnie Lansbury was an English suffragette and the first female alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, England. She died after contracting pneumonia while impr
The Minnie Lansbury Memorial Clock, Bow Road, upon restoration in 2018
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
Minnie Lansbury
…a Polish-born coal merchant, and his wife Annie Glassman. Her parents were Jewish immigrants. In 1914, she married Edgar Lansbury. He was the son of George Lansbury, mayor of Poplar and later leader of the Labour Party, and Elizabeth Lansbury (née Brine). After Lansbury's death, Edgar remarried to actress Moyna…
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