Sidney Webb

Sidney and BW jointly published volume one of their monumental English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, entitled The Parish and the County.

Beatrice and Sidney Webb jointly published A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain.

Beginning as a Labour Government was formed (with Sidney Webb as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians.

It discusses in detail the ideas of anarchism which EFB encountered through her friendship with Charlotte and Arthur Wilson . Its heroine, Honora Kemball, is faced with her father's decision to renounce his wages...

Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin , Herbert Spencer , Thomas Malthus , Thomas Huxley , Francis Galton , Edward Carpenter , John A. Hobson , and Sidney Webb . She was also inspired...

The first number of the New Statesman, a left-wing journal founded by themselves under the auspices of the Fabian Society , carried the opening instalment of Beatrice and Sidney Webb 's What is Socialism?

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

After their marriage, KBG and her husband, John Bruce Glasier , formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb . They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party

BW and her husband, Sidney Webb , founded the London School of Economics, to advance socialism and the objects of the Fabian Society .

BW and her husband formed the Coefficient Club to discuss Imperial Efficiency at Home and Abroad, and to provide a forum for a centre party.

BW and her husband founded the leftist journal the New Statesman, under the auspices of the Fabian Society ; this month Clifford Sharp became editor, which he remained until 1930. The first number appeared...

BW , with her husband , founded the Fabian Research Department (ancestor of the Labour Party 's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees.

The status and welfare of women in Africa was this group's central though not its only focus. One of the topics it discussed was clitoridectomy, later identified as female genital mutilation, a topic on which...

AB , now a socialist, became executive secretary of Fabian Society (which she had joined that year, nominated for election to membership by George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb ).

AB led the first strike of match girls, formed their union, and was elected its Secretary in July 1888. They were inspired, in part, by her article on their working conditions, published in The Link...