The Webb diaries, which begin in 1873 when Webb ... Sidney would be silenced by a stroke in 1938, but would survive Beatrice, whose last lines were penned five days before her death.

BEATRICE WEBB grew up as a fervent believer in free markets and limited government. Her father was a self-made railway tycoon and her mother an ardent free-trader. One of her family's closest ...

Bottom row, left to right: Elizabeth Fry, Cynthia Asquith, Beatrice Webb, Charlotte Forten Grimké and Virginia Woolf Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public ...

In 1917 Sidney Webb drafted the euphonious Clause IV of the Labour constitution, which committed the party to the public ownership of the commanding heights of the economy when it was approved the ...

The competition, designed to encourage young writers to engage with the issue of poverty, asked participants a set question on how Beatrice Webb, anti-poverty campaigner and co-founder of the New ...

They were also leading members of the Fabian Society. Sidney was born on 13th July 1859 in London, a son of Charles Webb and his wife Elizabeth and he married Beatrice in 1892. He was a member of the ...

By Craig Brown 1 & 2 With only modest reservations, the founders of the New Statesman, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, supported Stalin through the Great Purge. 3 One of A C Grayling’s pieces for the NS ...

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was the brain child of Sidney Webb, supported by his wife, the social investigator Beatrice Webb, the political scientist Graham Wallas, and ...

Sidney and Beatrice Webb put it plainly: “With regard to certain sections of the population [the “unemployable”], this unemployment is not a mark of social disease, but actually of social ...