Labour In Colour
@LabourInColour
Images from @UKLabour history colourised by hand. All originals are in the public domain unless specified. Created by @jsbarretto.
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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)
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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]
![LabourInColour's tweet image. "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]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdisoJhUQAAKzTh.jpg)
![LabourInColour's tweet image. "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]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdisoRVVwAAQ0dd.jpg)
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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