Anne McElvoy explores how an unlikely marriage between social researchers Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb would have a profound effect on the story of British Socialism and the development of the ...

LSE’s foundational relationship with the Fabian Society — most prominently via founding members Beatrice and Sidney Webb — is well known. The LSE South Asia Centre, with Professor Michael Cox (who is ...

What Does Fabian Socialism Mean Today? By . ... the Fabian Society has been a by-word for ... Its key thinkers, such as Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and R.H ...

Published digitally and in full for the first time today, the diaries of Beatrice Webb, leading Fabian and social reformer — as well as co-founder of the London School of Economics and New Statesman ...

Compelling and comprehensive, though at times too long, Michael Ward has produced an illuminating study of Beatrice and Sidney Webb. ... they shaped the Fabian Society in its formative decades.

Over one hundred years ago Beatrice Webb headed the group that published the Minority Report. Webb claimed that the purpose of the report was 'to secure a national minimum of civilised life open to ...

THE DIARIES OF BEATRICE WEBB Beatrice Potter Webb, , preface by Hermione Lee. . Northeastern Univ., $45 (630pp) ISBN 978-1-55553-483-7 ...

Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb on British socialism. Homepage. ... from the Fabian Society's zeal to transform Britain through centralised state planning to the ...