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George Lansbury
At the Heart of Old Labour
John Shepherd
444 pages
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16pp black and white plates
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927364-5
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Paperback
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05 August 2004
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- First major biography of George Lansbury, 'the most loveable figure in modern politics', since 1951
- Restores George Lansbury's importance in the history of British politics
- Based on a wide range of public and private sources that have only become available since 1951
'The most loveable figure in modern politics' was how A. J. P. Taylor described the Christian pacifist, George Lansbury, who at 73 took over the helm of the Labour Party of only 46 MPs in the Depression years of the 1930s. Throughout a remarkable life, Lansbury remained an extraordinary politician of the people, associated with a multitude of crusades for social justice. He resigned from Parliament to support 'Votes for Women' and for the next ten years edited the fiery Daily Herald. In 1921 Lansbury led the 'Poplar Rates Rebellion' - when thirty Labour councillors went willingly to prison in defiance of the government, the
courts, and their own party leadership.
As Labour leader, Lansbury was known universally as a committed socialist and an implacable opponent of capitalism and imperialism. He never sought personal wealth, travelled everywhere by public transport, and made his home in impoverished East London. His final years were spent in a tireless international peace crusade to prevent the drift towards another world war.
In this major new biography, John Shepherd draws on an impressive range of research to reconstruct the life of a charismatic Labour pioneer. He reaffirms George Lansbury's standing at the heart of Old Labour and his importance to British politics as a whole.
Readership: Scholars and students of modern history, politics and government, and women's studies; Labour party members.
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John Shepherd, Visiting Professor, Department of History, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge
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"Shepherd has done a magnificent job of recovering Lansbury's life. His scholarship is impeccable. Shepherd provides vivid and detailed portraits of the disparate corners of Lansbury's career ... A splendid biography that is also a major contribution to the history of the Labour Party." - Stephen Brooke, American Historical Review 108.5 "An outstanding work offering a well-researched, thorough and even account of its subject's life This is an excellent biography of a very significant figure in Labour's history." - Andrew Thorpe, History
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1: Labour's Everyman, 1859-1886
2: Liberal Politics, 1886-1892
3: Socialist Propagandist, 1892-1903
4: The People's Guardian, 1893-1914
5: Parliamentary Contests, 1900-1910
6: At Westminster, 1911-1912
7: By-Election and Prison, 1912-1913
8: Daily Herald, 1911-1914
9: The Great War Years, 1914-1919
10: Direct Action, 1919-1920
11: 'Poplarism', 1921-1928
12: First Labour Government, 1924
13: Backbench Rebel, 1925-1927
14: Second Labour Government, 1929-1931
15: Party Leader: Domestic Politics, 1931-1933
16: Party Leadership Crisis, 1934-1935
17: Pacifism, 1935-1940
18: Home and Family, 1881-1940
19: George Lansbury's Legacies
Bibliography
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