The 2024 George Lansbury Memorial Lecture
Thursday 21st November 6.30 - 8.00 pm
Lord Neil Kinnock
Communication of Politics: A Case for Treatment
(An LSE Library Public Event at LSE Cheng Kin Ku Building (CKK) 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ)
A special event with Lord Neil Kinnock, who has been a political activist for over 60 years. In this talk, he will reflect on experiences over those decades and on the need to ensure that digital communication serves democracy. This will be followed by an audience Q&A and a drinks reception in the foyer.
This is the annual George Lansbury Memorial Trust event, hosted in partnership with LSE Library and LSE Department of Government. The Trust was set up to commemorate the life and legacy of Labour MP George Lansbury (1859 - 1940), a pioneering campaigner for peace, women's rights, local democracy and improvements in labour conditions.
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The George Lansbury Memorial Trust was founded in 2012 to commemorate the life, work and legacy of George Lansbury (1859–1940). A pioneering campaigner for peace, women’s rights, local democracy and improvements in labour conditions, Lansbury was an adopted East Ender who made a great contribution to local as well as national life.
George Lansbury, MP for Bow & Bromley, led the Labour Party from 1932–1935 and spent his political life campaigning for social justice, women’s rights and world disarmament. The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is named after him. It was built as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, as an example of ‘housing for the people’ after the Second World War.The Trust organizes an annual George Lansbury Memorial Lecture and other events.
MP Surgeries
Did you ever wonder who came first with MPs surgeries. Well, George Lansbury was among the first.
Read more here by Emeritus Director of the History of Parliament, Dr Paul Seaward.
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