Sidney Webb

Standard Name: Webb, Sidney

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Virginia Woolf
The Woolfs were planning to acquire a printing press as early as 22 February 1915, when Virginia wrote to Margaret Llewelyn Davies about their excitement over the prospect: there's a chance of damaging the Webb
Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
Her political activities kept AWE at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf , Rose Macaulay , Vita Sackville-West , G. B. Shaw , and...
Textual Production H. G. Wells
HGW 's The New Machiavelli was a political roman à clef which includes unfriendly comic sketches of many public figures on the left, including Beatrice and Sidney Webb .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(29 March 1911): 11
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Material Conditions of Writing Beatrice Webb
While Sidney Webb was MP for Seaham in Durham, BW produced a series of newsletters, initially distinctly patronizing, for the women of his constituency.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Travel Beatrice Webb
BW and her husband embarked on a two-month visit to and travel around the Soviet Union.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Beatrice Webb
Sidney Webb , husband of Beatrice , suffered a stroke which left him unable to write, though he continued to read.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
BW (as Mrs. Sidney Webb) published another brief history entitled Women and the Factory Acts, number 67 of the Fabian Tracts.
The Oxford University Libraries Online Catalogue of the Bodleian Library ...
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
BW , in her first literary and scholarly collaboration with her husband Sidney , published The History of Trade Unionism.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
Beatrice and Sidney Webb jointly published Industrial Democracy, a successor to their history of trade unions in which they aimed to put forward a theory of unionism.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Beatrice 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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
247 (5 October 1906): 340
politics Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW ) joined the Fabian Society at the urging of Sidney Webb : between them they were to dominate the society for a generation to come.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Nord, Deborah Epstein. The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb. University of Massachusetts Press.
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Publishing Beatrice Webb
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?
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter first met Sidney Webb at the house of her second cousin Margaret Harkness , who had recommended him as an expert in labour history.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
Beatrice and Sidney Webb jointly published A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
969 (12 August 1920): 523
Family and Intimate relationships Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter married Sidney Webb , Fabian socialist and civil servant, and, later, London County Councillor and Labour MP.
Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press.
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Timeline

January 1884: The Fabian Society was founded in London...

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January 1884

The Fabian Society was founded in London to publicize socialist ideas and investigate the application of socialist principles to British conditions.

26 June to 5 July 1899: The International Council of Women sponsored...

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26 June to 5 July 1899

The International Council of Women sponsored the International Congress of Women , a ten-day conference held at Westminster Town Hall in London. Those attending included Susan B. Anthony , Sidney Webb , Josephine Butler

26 May 1905: The Fabian Society set up a committee under...

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26 May 1905

The Fabian Society set up a committee under Sidney Webb to investigate the declining birth rate and the level of infant mortality.

1928: Members of the British Federation of University...

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1928

Members of the British Federation of University Women (later known as the British Federation of Women Graduates ) established the Sybil Campbell Libraryfor the study of the expansion of the role of women in recent generations.

Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...

National or international item

Late July 1931

In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.

Texts

Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain. Longmans, Green, 1920.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans, Green, 1929.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Industrial Democracy. Longmans, Green, 1897.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. Longmans, Green, 1932.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?. Longmans, Green, 1935.
Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. The History of Trade Unionism. Longmans, Green, 1894.
Webb, Beatrice, and Sidney Webb. Visit to New Zealand in 1898. Price Milburn, 1959.