The most historical events captured on film over the past 100 years
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The Labour party deputy leader John Prescott during the 1997 general election campaign
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The Labour party campaign during the 1997 general election campaign
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The earliest film of the Labour Party in the Reuters archive (date presumed pre-1916) shows party members in Paris all in top hats.
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Labour Party conference at Brighton in 1921 where the miners lay their case before Trade Union leaders: Shows crowds outside conference and MPs named as JR Clynes and Neil Maclean, Harry Gosling from the Transport Workers Federation. Labour member Arthur Greenwood, Sir Leo Chiozza Money from the coal commission with Herbert Smith from the Miners Federation, conference chairman AG Cameron walking with Ramsey Macdonald and Arthur Henderson MP.
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George Lansbury at Hyde Park - Feb 1933: The Labour Party and the Trades Union Council organize huge rally. Shows Piccadilly, London packed with people as they walk to Hyde Park with Labour banners. George Lansbury leads crowd then gives speech " Friends, if you don't learn the lesson that gold or no gold, paper or buttons, none of these things matter. What really matters is who controls industry and the results of industry. You don't make wealth by passing bits of paper to one another...marching to build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land". Large banner says 'Unemployed Association - we demand work or maintenance' followed by police on horseback. Large crowd in Hyde Park sing 'Keep the Red Flag flying' as Lansbury sings along.

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