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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 ...
Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb on British socialism.
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 ...
Beatrice Potter Webb, , preface by Hermione Lee. . Northeastern Univ., $45 (630pp) ISBN 978-1-55553-483-7 The Webb diaries, which begin in 1873 when Webb was 15, and end early in wartime 1943 ...
Their list of achievements is staggering. They co-founded the London School of Economics and the New Statesman; they shaped the Fabian Society in its formative decades.
Beatrice Webb, co-founder of both the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Fabian movement, left behind an insightful account of social upheaval and history over a 70 ...
Webb essay winner: Goodbye to all that The workhouse is gone, but child poverty demands attention. By Anil Prashar Over one hundred years ago Beatrice Webb headed the group that published the Minority ...