William Henry, first Baron Beveridge

NRS was a close friend of Rose Macaulay , with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing...

Family friends and frequent visitors to the Pakenham household included J. M. Keynes , William Beveridge (whom AF 's father had assisted in plans for the postwar Welfare State), Hugh Gaitskell , and (particularly good...

This work of ER 's drew much, mixed attention. In a belated New Leader review in 1926, Hugh Dalton (later Chancellor of the Exchequer in the postwar Labour government) named it one of the outstanding...

Lobbying and other work by the society brought some early successes. A royal commission on the coal industry (also supported by Beveridge ) advocated the idea of using allowances to balance miners' wage reductions.

The content and the reception of ER 's family allowance initiatives rose and fell with other contemporary social concerns. She met with sustained opposition from the Trade Union Group in parliament—to its undying shame...

Beatrice Webb 's Diaries, 1912-1924 appeared posthumously from Longmans , edited by Margaret I. Cole , with an introduction by Lord Beveridge .

After another lecture tour of the USA in 1938, she was there again in 1941 under the auspices of the Ministry of Reconstruction to publicise William Beveridge 's proposals for setting up a Welfare State...