Sidney Webb

In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...

After BW 's own life-writings had begun to appear to considerable acclaim, the joint diary which she and Sidney kept during their tour in Asia was selected and edited, first by Niraja Gopal Jayal as...

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...

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

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...

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...

Sidney and Beatrice Webb later acknowledged the importance of AB 's efforts to the new Unionism that became widespread after this year.

She was elected to the Marylebone Labour Party committee in 1936. In a programme of self-education about labour and capitalism, she read Marx 's Das Kapital, Sidney and Beatrice Webb 's Soviet Communism: A...

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.

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 .