Labour In Colour @LabourInColour
Images from @UKLabour history colourised by hand. All originals are in the public domain unless specified. Created by @jsbarretto. colour.jsbarretto.com Plymouth, England Joined May 2018-
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"I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision." Clement Attlee, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, in 1938 (original author (NPG) Bassano Ltd)
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Alice Cullen (née McLaughlin), MP for Glasgow Gorbals, 1950 (original author (NPG) Bassano Ltd)
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall." Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor, 1952 (original author (NPG) Elliott & Fry)
Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, 1936 (original author (NPG) Howard Coster) Henderson was a Labour councillor and prominent member of the Fabian Society. During the Spanish Civil War, he served in a Republican field hospital before opening his home to 40 child evacuees.
Grace Mary Colman, MP for Tynemouth during the Attlee government and educator, 1945
Herbert Gladstone, Liberal Home Secretary, Son of William Gladstone, 1918 (original author (NPG) Walter Stoneman) In 1903, Herbert worked with the Labour Leader, Ramsay MacDonald, in forming a pact between the two parties to ensure that neither party split the vote of the other.
Dame Elizabeth Lee Manning, MP for Islington East, later Epping, and NEC member, 1946 (original author (NPG) Bassano Ltd) Lee helped to arrange the evacuation of almost 4,000 children to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.
William Warbey, MP for Luton and later Broxtowe/Ashfield, 1947 (original author (NPG) Bassano Ltd)
Apologies for this account's recent silence. A new colourisation is coming tonight!
"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up." Tony Benn, Minister in the Wilson Labour Government and ex-Spitfire pilot, 1947 (original owner (NPG) Bassano Ltd)
Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, was instrumental in ensuring that Britain fought Nazi Germany. Here he is in 1948 (original owner (NPG) Karl Pollark)
Who do you want to see colourised next? Suggestions welcome.
Alice Bacon, Chairwoman of the Labour Party and champion of comprehensive schools, 1945 (original owner (NPG) Elliott & Fry)
Judith Hart, Labour MP for Lanark, Minister for Overseas Development, and chairwoman of the Labour Party, 1964 (original owner (NPG) Walter Bird)
"Underlying Socialism is the great basic truth of human equality; not that all are to be alike, but that all are to be equal, which is a very different thing." Keir Hardie, the first leader of the Labour Party, 1909 (original author unknown) [remastered]
Lucy Middleton, Labour Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, 1945-1951 (original author NPG (Bassano Ltd), exact date unknown)
"Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable" Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, 1942 (original owner (NPG) Central Press)
"Socialism is what a Labour government does." Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons during the post-war Labour government, 1947 (original author Yousuf Karsh)
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"I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive" ~ Barbara Castle Here, Barbara Castle, Labour Minister for Overseas Development, meets with John Tembo, the Malawian Minister of Finance, 1964-1965 (exact date and original author unknown)
Major Dennis Healey - best prime minister we never had
"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall." Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor, 1952 (original author (NPG) Elliott & Fry)
Thank you @LabourInColour I may have nicked some of your pics to use in a presentation about Labour Women...
@LabourInColour sadly I suspect that there may have been photographs of Christopher Addison which were lost in a house fire some years ago. As for Leah this seems to be a one off although my grandmother did cut out the Telegraph obituary for Leah.
@LabourInColour recently came across a 1930s photograph which I've inherited of Leah with my great aunt Mabel Priest and her husband Joe with taken I suspect at the Cam Sailing Club.
Current reading matter: 'The Division Bell Mystery' by Ellen Wilkinson (#Labour MP). Crime in the House of Commons? Say it ain't so... (colourised picture of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow March purloined from @LabourInColour) Further info: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Wil…
@LabourInColour Dalton Henderson Clynes Morrison Cripps
@LabourInColour Ellen Wilkinson and Margaret Bondfield
@djbeere @LabourInColour Well he was certainly austere, but a real radical too and I think quite s colourful character.
@LabourInColour Micheal Foot Joan Maynard Richard Crossman Edith Summerkill Bessie Braddock Ian Mikardo Anthony Greenwood Emmanuel Shinwell Stafford Cripps Hugh Dalton George Lansbury Eireen White
@HarryTGTaylor @LabourInColour Seconded. Ideally of him speaking in the Colne Valley. Or leading a march 🌹
Jennie Lee, Baroness of Asheridge, Minister for Arts in Harold Wilson's government, 1965 (original author (NPG) Walter Bird)
I sat beside her waiting to receive my OU PhD at Alexandra Palace ... 1973? Impressive lady ... I was too in awe to speak!
Jennie Lee, Baroness of Asheridge, Minister for Arts in Harold Wilson's government, 1965 (original author (NPG) Walter Bird)
The #trailblazer Jennie Lee - how her humanity shines through @Nye_and_Jennie this autumn #CelticConnection #theatretour
Jennie Lee, Baroness of Asheridge, Minister for Arts in Harold Wilson's government, 1965 (original author (NPG) Walter Bird)
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Jennie Lee, Baroness of Asheridge, Minister for Arts in Harold Wilson's government, 1965 (original author (NPG) Walter Bird)
@LabourInColour @ArjunMittra The greatest leader we have ever had. Reviled by Left and right alike.Oh-Clem-ent-Att-lee.
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