Video: The Women of the Poplar Revolt
Janine gave this talk at ‘East End Women Take Action’, an event held on 24 September 2016, organised by the East End Women’s Museum.
Issues and campaigns: The Poplar Rates Rebellion
The 1921 rebellion in Poplar, east London, when thirty Labour councillors went to prison rather than cut services or increase rates.
Minnie Lansbury: example for Labour women
Published in The Clarion, issue 4, January/February 2017. Minnie Lansbury was a school teacher, suffragette, champion of the victims of war, rebel councillor and socialist martyr. Born Minnie Glassman in 1889, she was the daughter of Jewish immigrants to the … Read More
George Lansbury, Minnie Lansbury and Their Relevance to Modern Feminism
Text of the George Lansbury Memorial Lecture, given on 16 November 2016 at Queen Mary University, London. I’m working on the assumption that most of you know a fair bit about George Lansbury but rather less about his daughter-in-law … Read More
East End Women Take Action: 1888-2016
Be inspired by over 100 years of east London women fighting for change (and winning!) Join the East End Women’s Museum and East End Sisters Uncut for an afternoon of short talks and conversations about the different ways east London … Read More
Walking With Minnie
A guided tour round Minnie Lansbury’s Bow, east London. If you would like to arrange for me to take you on this guided walk, please email me. Thanks to Andrew Gellert and Jen Blane for the photos.
Walking With Minnie
walkingwithminnieguide Attached is the leaflet for walkers taking Janine’s guided tour of Minnie Lansbury’s Bow, east London. If you would like to arrange a walking tour, please contact Janine.
Walking With Minnie
Janine leads a guided walking tour of east London, tracing the life and struggles of Minnie Lansbury, Jewish socialist, suffragette, campaigner for war orphans, communist and rebel councillor. Meet at Bow Road London Underground station at 6pm … and finishing … Read More
Lecture: George Lansbury, Minnie Lansbury, and their relevance to modern feminism
Janine will be giving this year’s George Lansbury Memorial Lecture at a venue in East London.
Speaking about Poplar Council at ‘Corbynomics for Everyday Life’
Janine will be speaking about the 1920s Poplar Rates Rebellion to introduce a session on Radical Councils. John Burgess from Barnet Unison will also speak, and there will be plenty of time for discussion. Event organised by Lewisham, Lambeth & … Read More
Talk on Minnie Lansbury: Tower Hamlets Women’s History Month
Janine will be giving a presentation about Minnie Lansbury at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives (277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ) as part of Women’s History Month. Also speaking (provisionally) will be Sarah Jackson about the East London Suffragettes. Around the same time, … Read More
Jewish revolutionaries and revolutionary Jews
Click here to read a special issue of Workers’ Liberty written by Daniel Randall, which draws on Janine’s work researching the life of Minnie Lansbury.
Rebel Councillors – the history (and future?) of councils refusing to implement austerity – UCL Left Forum
UCL Roberts Building, Room G08, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE From the Poplar Rates Revolt in the 1920s to the Clay Cross Rent Rebels in the 1970s, there is a history of left-wing Labour Councillors refusing to implement Conservative … Read More
‘Guilty and Proud of it’ – video presentation
Workers’ Socialist Federation statement on 1918 General Election
The WSF was the organisation led by Sylvia Pankhurst, which had previously been the Workers’ Suffrage Federation, and before that, the East London Federation of the Suffragettes. It had previously fought militantly, first for votes for women, and then more … Read More
Researching Minnie Lansbury at the WEA archive collections
Thanks to the TUC Library for asking me to write this guest blog post, published here. And for existing. Guest post on Minnie Lansbury and the WEA archive collections This guest blog post is written by Janine Booth, who recently visited … Read More
Minnie Lansbury – illustrated talk at the East London History Society
Janine will be giving an illustrated talk about Minnie Lansbury – East End Suffragette, socialist, school teacher, champion of the victims of war, rebel councillor and my hero! as the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the East London History Society. Venue: Latimer … Read More
Review: the councillors who went to jail
Back in 2009. Docklands publications The Wharf published this review of Janine’s book, ‘Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar’s rebel councillors and guardians 1919-1925’.
Poplar: A Different Sort of Labour Council
An article published in Workers’ Liberty no.66 in 2001, which turned out to be a precursor to my 2009 book, Guilty and Proud Of It. In Hackney, east London, the Labour/Tory coalition administration – the first in Britain since World War … Read More
Poplar Council 1921: Last Words Before Prison
In 1921, thirty Labour Councillors in Poplar went to prison to protest at an unfair rating system that penalised poor boroughs. They eventually won their fight. Here are the parting messages from the Councillors (well, most of them, anyway) as printed in … Read More
Talk at Jewish East End Celebration Society AGM: Minnie Lansbury
East London Central Synagogue, 30-40 Nelson Street, London, E1 2DE After very brief formal AGM proceedings, there will be two talks, including my presentation on Minnie Lansbury – East End suffragette, socialist, school teacher, champion of the victims of war, rebel … Read More