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Sidney Webb member_of
Labour Commission documented
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“Sidney stood in front of the fire and read out the parts of the report which would affect him most.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.272
Sidney Webb did_business_with
Lord Rosebery documented
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“So it was while Labour was beginning its long and hesitant march away from Liberalism that Sidney Webb was busy encouraging Lord Rosebery's 'Escape from Houndsditch.'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.339
Sidney Webb worked_for
Nineteenth Century documented
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“The result appeared in the September issue of Nineteenth Century, improved by an occasional suggestion from his wife and a dash of literary genius from Shaw, under the title of 'Lord Rosebery's Escape from Houndsditch'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.341
Sidney Webb met_with
Lord Rosebery documented
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“Haldane and Shaw now pressed Sidney to supply Rosebery with a domestic policy...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.341
Sidney Webb met_with
H. H. Asquith documented
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“both Asquith and I would attach much importance to Sidney being present at the dinner…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.340
Sidney Webb met_with
Margaret Hobhouse documented
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“Beatrice in the company of her sister Margaret Hobhouse viewed it from the gallery. Sidney, she noticed, 'Was amongst the most distinguished of the guests.'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.341
Sidney Webb founded
The Coefficients documented
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“On 6 November 1902 at a dinner given by Mr and Mrs Sidney Webb, it was resolved to found a dining club to be known as the Coefficients.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.343
Sidney Webb member_of
The Coefficients documented
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“The original members were... Mr Sidney Webb...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.343
Sidney Webb member_of
The Coefficients documented
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“As opener, Sidney rehearsed the arguments that were familiar from the 'Escape' and earlier writings.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.345
Sidney Webb headed
The Coefficients documented
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“After four years' experience in courting Rosebery and the Limps and acting as convenor to the Coefficients, it must have become apparent to Sidney that these turning movements were wondrous slow and far from sure.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.347
Sidney Webb met_with
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery documented
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“After four years' experience in courting Rosebery and the Limps and acting as convenor to the Coefficients…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.347
Reeves succeeded
Sidney Webb documented
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“That his successors as directors of the LSE, Reeves and Mackinder - all imperialists and all Coefficients - had been used also to compromise the claims of learning and respectability with those of socialism.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.348
Halford Mackinder succeeded
Sidney Webb documented
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“That his successors as directors of the LSE, Reeves and Mackinder - all imperialists and all Coefficients - had been used also to compromise the claims of learning and respectability with those of socialism.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.348
Sidney Webb met_with
Herbert Samuel documented
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“As he explained to Herbert Samuel, what mattered in political thought were the axiomata media which connected the fundamental principle to the particular project.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.348
Sidney Webb met_with
Bertrand Russell documented
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“As already noted (p. 63), when he told Bertrand Russell that he liked to draw his own conclusions from other men's premises' and the philosopher replied, that then the conclusions followed anyway and were either not to be thought of as his …”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.348
J. R. MacDonald did_business_with
Sidney Webb reported
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“However, he was busy spreading tales about Sidney and Beatrice making money out of the 'School': a particularly unpleasant fabrication which was made into a grotesque one by the Webbs' gifts to that institution and their practice of teachin…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.353
Sidney Webb worked_for
Daily Mail documented
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“Sidney was a good deal of time puffing Shaw in the Daily Mail…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.353
Sidney Webb did_business_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“Sidney was a good deal of time puffing Shaw in the Daily Mail and otherwise trying to get him elected to the LCC in 1904.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.353
Arthur Balfour met_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“On 22 November the Webbs were dining with Lord Lucas in his great mansion in St James's Square and Beatrice was feeling a bit ashamed of herself for dissipating her energies in this 'smart but futile world' when in came the PM to 'dissipate…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.355
Sidney Webb met_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
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“She introduced him to her husband. 'I think you were in my Office, Mr. Webb,' said the Colonial Secretary.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.362
Sidney Webb worked_for
Imperial College of Science and Technology documented
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“With Beatrice he had founded the LSE and with Haldane helped to make the Imperial College of Science and Technology the new Charlottenburg near the head of a great new teaching university.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.365
Sidney Webb worked_for
Sankey Commission documented
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“With the peace Sidney went on to the Sankey Commission on the Coal Industry.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb member_of
Labour Party (UK) documented
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“He became a member of the first Labour government in 1924.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb worked_for
Labour Party (UK) documented
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“As Colonial Secretary in the second Labour administration, Sidney appeared to switch his support away from the settlers in Palestine and Kenya in favour of the indigenous population.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb operated_in
Palestine documented
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“As Colonial Secretary in the second Labour administration, Sidney appeared to switch his support away from the settlers in Palestine and Kenya in favour of the indigenous population.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb operated_in
Kenya documented
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“As Colonial Secretary in the second Labour administration, Sidney appeared to switch his support away from the settlers in Palestine and Kenya in favour of the indigenous population.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb moved_to
Russia documented
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“It continued as they visited Russia.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb lived_in
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington documented
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“Russell's daughter Kate recalled that when the Webbs were staying with her family in Cornwall she bumped into Sidney in one of the darker corridors.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.366
Sidney Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“The four Fabians are credited as co-founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science... Beatrice Webb reported the discussion around Sidney Webb’s plan to establish a new centre for teaching and research…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb married
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Beatrice and Sidney Webb met in 1890, marrying in 1892.…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb worked_for
Colonial Office documented
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“instead of attending university he entered the Civil Service…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“they both went on to be early members of the Fabian Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“he first met G Bernard Shaw in 1879 at the Zetetical Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb member_of
Zetetical Society documented
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“he first met G Bernard Shaw in 1879 at the Zetetical Society…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“It was the brain child of Sidney Webb, supported by his wife, the social investigator Beatrice Webb, the political scientist Graham Wallas, and the writer George Bernard Shaw.…”
source: url — LSE history overview - LSE · p.1
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“All four were prominent members of the Fabian Society.…”
source: url — LSE history overview - LSE · p.1
Sidney Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“His vision is to found, slowly and quietly, a ‘London School of Economics and Political Science’…”
source: url — Henry Hunt Hutchinson and his will - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb worked_for
Technical and Education Board of the London County Council documented
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“the Technical and Education Board of the London County Council (of which he was Chairman)…”
source: url — Henry Hunt Hutchinson and his will - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb met_with
R B Haldane documented
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“the trustees sought the opinion of the barrister R B Haldane…”
source: url — Henry Hunt Hutchinson and his will - LSE History · p.1
Sidney Webb succeeded
Frederick Keddell documented
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“Pease succeeded him, and, save for a three-year interval when he was in Newcastle and Olivier took his place, held the post until 1913.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.27
Sidney Webb worked_for
Colonial Office documented
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“...Sidney Webb, then a clerk in the Colonial Office...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.29
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“...in May Webb... were admitted to membership.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.29
Sidney Webb worked_for
Fabian Society documented
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“Pease put them through a severe verbal cross-examination and all but turned them from the door as insufficiently serious-minded.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.30
Sidney Webb member_of
London County Council documented
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“election in 1892, when Webb was himself a candidate, and elected for Deptford.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.43
Sidney Webb operated_in
Willis's Rooms documented
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“The first lecture was given by Sidney Webb at Willis’s Rooms on Septembe4 21st...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.48
Sidney Webb worked_for
Technical and Education Board of the London County Council documented
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“But Webb, when devising the Technical Education Board of the London County Council in the ’nineties, included on it a number of representatives of educational ‘interests’—with excellent results.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.55
Sidney Webb proposed
Our Social Heritage documented
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“See his book, Our Social Heritage (1921).…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.55
Sidney Webb headed
Executive Committee documented
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“in the first contested election Webb headed the list with 103 out of 117 votes…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.63
Sidney Webb paid
Fabian Society reported
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“I think the £50 Webb paid me was actually a gift to the Fabian Society.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.64
Sidney Webb succeeded
Frederick Keddell documented
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“whose place on the Executive was taken by Sidney Webb…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.68
Sidney Webb worked_for
London County Council documented
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“Webb’s L.C.C. association with Rosebery stuck badly in their throats…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.69
Sidney Webb proposed
Newcastle Conference documented
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“Webb gave me the Program in his own hand as a string of resolutions.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.72
Sidney Webb married
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Beatrice Webb, though not one of the founding fathers, was from the moment of her marriage as important as Sidney in its control.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.79
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Quite the wisest thing I ever did [he wrote] was to force my friendship on him and to keep it; for from that time I was not merely a futile Shaw but a committee of Webb and Shaw.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.79
Sidney Webb married
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Sidney Webb was married on 23rd ult. to Beatrice Potter…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.86
Sidney Webb headed
Hutchinson Trust documented
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“...of whom Webb was to be president for the first year...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.93
Sidney Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“...Sidney had been yearning to set up an institution of that kind...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.94
Sidney Webb worked_for
Technical Education Board of the L.C.C. documented
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“...at least since his creation in 1893 of the Technical Education Board of the L.C.C....…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.94
Sidney Webb lived_in
Borough Farm documented
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“On a certain day in August, 1894 [wrote Graham Wallas], Mr and Mrs Webb, Mr G. B. Shaw and I were staying at the little farm [Borough Farm, near Godalming]....…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.94
Sidney Webb worked_for
London School of Economics documented
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“Webb, accordingly, wrote out, as a kind of appendage to the Hutchinson will, a paper of his own... including the promotion... of all or any of the objects for the time being of the said Society... and had decided that at least half was to g…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.95
Sidney Webb met_with
R B Haldane documented
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“and to fortify himself against possible criticism enquired of R. B. Haldane, Q.C., whether this seemed all right to him.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.95
Sidney Webb appointed
W. A. S. Hewins documented
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“the Webbs approached the expert whom they proposed to put in charge of the venture... This was a young Oxford man named W. A. S. Hewins…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.96
Sidney Webb headed
London County Council Technical Education Board documented
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“Sidney promised him that the L.C.C. Technical Education Board, of which he was chairman, would give an additional subvention out of the rates…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.96
James Ramsay MacDonald relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Sidney soothingly promised to make a report on the Trust to the Annual Meeting…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.101
Beatrice Webb married
Sidney Webb documented
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“‘Our Partnership’ began officially in July 1892; in fact, as the engagement was kept a secret until after Richard Potter’s death, it had already been in operation for a year or two...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.104
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“she employed her lover, as she herself sometimes said, as a superior secretary or amanuensis…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.109
Sidney Webb worked_for
Liberal Party documented
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“He did, in fact, receive several invitations to stand under the Liberal flag…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.110
Beatrice Webb family_of
Sidney Webb documented
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“Beatrice set her face strongly against it, for both personal and other reasons.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.110
Sidney Webb met_with
Richard Haldane documented
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“'I naturally want to get into Parliament if I can', Webb had written to Haldane in 1891.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.110
Sidney Webb met_with
James Ramsay MacDonald documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb met_with
Frank Smith documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb met_with
Keir Hardie documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb met_with
Tom Mann documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb met_with
Archibald Pease documented
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“when in January 1895 she and Sidney, at the request of MacDonald and Frank Smith of the I.L.P.... gave a dinner for those two with Pease, Shaw, Hardie, and Tom Mann in attendance…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
H. H. Asquith documented
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“Among the Liberals, they could not get on with either Asquith or Lloyd George…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
David Lloyd George documented
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“Among the Liberals, they could not get on with either Asquith or Lloyd George…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Henry Campbell-Bannerman documented
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“they despised Campbell-Bannerman…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery documented
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“they laid their bets rather on the spineless Rosebery…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Richard Haldane documented
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“or Haldane the arch-intriguer…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb relationship_with
John Burns documented
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“On the Labour side, they alienated John Burns…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Sidney Webb operated_in
United Kingdom documented
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“he was deeply occupied... with ploys on the domestic front; particularly in education... public education system in England and Wales…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.132
Sidney Webb operated_in
United Kingdom documented
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“he was deeply occupied... with ploys on the domestic front; particularly in education... public education system in England and Wales…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.132
Frederick Morant relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Morant was on terms with the Webbs...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.135
Sidney Webb family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Morant was on terms with the Webbs, and Balfour the Prime Minister an old friend of Beatrice...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.135
Sidney Webb worked_for
Daily Mail documented
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“...including Sidney’s part-editorship, for a week, of Northcliffe’s Daily Mail...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.136
Sidney Webb proposed
Education Act for London documented
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“Webb was, of course, the leading protagonist of the Bill—and therefore in effect the creator of the London school system of today...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.136
Sidney Webb worked_for
The New York Times documented
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“in this case the results were not made into a Tract, but written up by Webb in a series of articles in The Times…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.139
H. G. Wells relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“The final summing-up of his opinion of the Society may be found in the angry pages of The New Machiavelli (1911), the long political novel which contains the biting description of the Webbs as ‘Oscar and Altiora Bailey’...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.153
Stephen Sanders succeeded
Sidney Webb documented
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“Replaced Pease as General Secretary at the end of 1913…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.164
Sidney Webb founded
National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution documented
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“Sidney’s ingenuity and gift for remembering odd facts had succeeded in getting published... the prospectus of the newly formed National Committee for the Break-up of the Poor Law, which soon changed its name to National Committee for the Pr…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.169
Sidney Webb lived_in
41 Grosvenor Road documented
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“Persons of influence and importance were bidden to luncheon at 41 Grosvenor Road and there subjected to the combined attack which became so well known, when Beatrice and Sidney... batted the object of their attentions across the room…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.170
Sidney Webb headed
National Council for the Prevention of Destitution documented
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“At the urgent request of Clifford Sharp, they kept the N.C.P.D., and the Crusade, in being.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.172
Sidney Webb proposed
Fabian Society documented
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“Shaw submitted his idea ‘as a provision against senile decay of the Society’ to the Executive, which on Webb’s motion agreed to propose to the Annual Meeting the creation of a class of ‘Consultative Executive Members’...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.173
Sidney Webb headed
Fabian Society documented
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“one or both Webbs headed the poll…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.175
Sidney Webb worked_for
Fabian Research Committee documented
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“In October appeared a long printed Report of the Committee (written, on internal evidence, by Sidney)…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.181
Sidney Webb worked_for
War Emergency Committee documented
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“Sidney held no official position on that body... but from the first moment his ability to draft and to organise assured him a leading role…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.198
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Arthur Henderson documented
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“the relationship between him and Webb became very close.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.199
Sidney Webb headed
International Socialist Bureau documented
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“influenced by the benign wisdom of the Fabian representatives (with Sidney in the chair)…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.200
Sidney Webb proposed
Labour's War Aims documented
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“a document prepared by Huysmans, Henderson, Webb, and MacDonald in collaboration was laid before a special conference in December.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.200
Sidney Webb worked_for
Labour Party (UK) documented
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“Accordingly, with the help of Webb and others on the Executive, he drafted the new constitution for the Labour Party.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.201
Sidney Webb worked_for
Fabian Research Department documented
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“The most noticeable result of this was a series of studies entitled How to Pay for the War —prepared nominally by a committee of the Fabian Research Department, but actually by Webb…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.202
Sidney Webb worked_for
Miners' Federation documented
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“Within a very short while, however, he was fully occupied as Miners’ Federation representative on the famous and dramatic Sankey Coal…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.204
Sidney Webb worked_for
Sankey Coal Commission documented
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“Within a very short while, however, he was fully occupied as Miners’ Federation representative on the famous and dramatic Sankey Coal…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.204
Sidney Webb headed
Labour Party Executive documented
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“the immediate result of this was his heading of the 1919 poll for the Labour Party Executive…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.205
Sidney Webb lived_in
Seaham documented
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“his remarkable triumph at the election of the previous year in ‘our constituency’ of Seaham…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.206
Sidney Webb removed_from_power
Labour Party Executive documented
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“within two years he had lost his seat on the Executive…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.206
Sidney Webb headed
Fabian Research Department documented
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“‘No one’, she had written on April 8th, 1913, ‘in the Fabian Society is capable of running the Research Department but ourselves.’…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.207
Arthur Henderson met_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“he was discussing with Webb, Leonard Woolf, Cole, and others... the formation of a number of voluntary Labour Party advisory committees…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.212
Sidney Webb founded
Westminster Labour Party documented
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“The Westminster Labour Party was Webb’s idea, replacing Henderson’s rejected suggestion for a ‘national’ branch of individual Party members…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.221
Sidney Webb removed_from_power
Fabian Society documented
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“Webb, who was defeated for the Executive in 1925…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.228
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“In a letter to the newly-weds, Shaw had casually flung out the suggestion…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.228
Sidney Webb moved_to
Oxford University documented
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“Cole himself, it seemed, had turned aside from politics; he had removed himself from London to the retreat of Oxford University...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.238
Sidney Webb lived_in
London documented
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“Cole himself, it seemed, had turned aside from politics; he had removed himself from London to the retreat of Oxford University...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.238
Sidney Webb founded
Tutors' Association documented
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“...and created the professional Tutors’ Association...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.238
Sidney Webb worked_for
Workers’ Educational Association documented
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“...his influence was spread and consolidated in the many conferences of Trade Union branches and other working-class bodies addressed by him under W.E.A. auspices...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.238
G. D. H. Cole did_business_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“he and his wife had stayed several times at Passfield Corner…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.244
Sidney Webb did_business_with
George Lansbury documented
document
“in 1930, at their and Henderson’s instigation, he actually took on a Parlia-…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.244
Sidney Webb headed
Labour Party (UK) documented
document
“the Advisory Committees set up in the first flush of reorganisation by Webb and Henderson which, eager amateurs though some of them were, were at first better than nothing, had been allowed to fall largely into decline.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.247
Sidney Webb worked_for
Labour Party (UK) documented
document
“For them, Sidney’s second term of office was an interlude…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.248
Sidney Webb moved_to
Soviet Union documented
document
“It was in 1932 that the Webbs went to Russia…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.252
Margaret Cole met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“They took their idea to Cole…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.254
Sidney Webb met_with
G. D. H. Cole documented
document
“the idea was put across at a dinner in the House of Commons on March end... which... his assistant, J. S. Middleton, with the Webbs... benignantly attended, as well as the Coles...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.259
Sidney Webb moved_to
St. Petersburg documented
document
“The Webbs sailed for Leningrad in May…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.261
George Lansbury met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“it was welcomed by Henderson, who, writing to Cole from the Disarmament Conference at Geneva…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.263
Sidney Webb operated_in
Soviet Union documented
document
“the investigators, like the Webbs, rejoiced to see what they wanted to see…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.263
Sir Drummond Shiels worked_for
Sidney Webb documented
document
“Sir Drummond Shiels, M.P., once Under-Secretary to Sidney Webb…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.318
Sidney Webb funded
Fabian Society documented
document
“when Sidney died in the winter of 1947 it was found that his will left nearly the whole of their estate... to be administered by five trustees, who were to expend it within twenty years in fostering social and economic research, mainly thro…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.354
Sidney Webb funded
London School of Economics documented
document
“when Sidney died in the winter of 1947 it was found that his will left nearly the whole of their estate... to be administered by five trustees, who were to expend it within twenty years in fostering social and economic research, mainly thro…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.354
Sidney Webb lived_in
Limpsfield Common documented
document
“Pease, then in his ninety-sixth year, and living happily, though stone-deaf, in retirement on Limpsfield Common in Surrey…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.358
Sidney Webb worked_for
London University documented
document
“The debt of London University to Sidney Webb…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.370
Sidney Webb founded
Passfield Trustees documented
document
“At the end of their lives the Webbs established a body to be known as the Passfield Trustees.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
Fabian Society documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: the Fabian Society...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: ... the London School of Economics...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
Labour Party (UK) documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: ... the Labour Party...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
New Statesman documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: ... the New Statesman...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
Political Quarterly documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: ... the Political Quarterly...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb founded
Tribune documented
document
“Its task was to benefit the institutions which they had a hand in creating: ... Tribune...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.10
Sidney Webb born_in
London documented
document
“Sidney was born in the heart of London on 13 July 1859.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.16
Sidney Webb worked_for
Colonial Office documented
document
“First-division clerk at the Colonial Office…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.16
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“In 1946 Bernard Shaw remarked to Sidney: 'You had wonderful parents...'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Sidney Webb born_in
Cranbourn Street documented
document
“Sidney, who was born at Cranbourn Street on 13 July 1859…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Charles Webb (son) family_of
Sidney Webb documented
document
“His eldest brother Charles and his younger sister Ada came to live, in their own very different ways, lives as contented and fulfilled as his own.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Ada Webb family_of
Sidney Webb documented
document
“His eldest brother Charles and his younger sister Ada came to live, in their own very different ways, lives as contented and fulfilled as his own.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Sidney Webb relationship_with
John Ruskin documented
document
“He envied Ruskin who could recall as the chief blessing of his boyhood that it had taught him peace.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.18
Sidney Webb family_of
Charles Webb documented
document
“Once when he and his brother, elegantly and respectably attired in kilts, were playing round the Duke of York's Column, they were chased by a policeman.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.19
Sidney Webb family_of
Elizabeth Webb documented
document
“Elizabeth and Charles both came from families of the 'middling sort'...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.19
Sidney Webb family_of
Charles Webb senior documented
document
“This suggests a strong possibility that Charles Webb senior…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.20
Sidney Webb lived_in
Cranbourn Street documented
document
“Their neighbours in Cranbourn Street - small merchants, dressmakers, drapers, window-blind makers, and importers of French stays - lived precariously in the unsettled regions of the lower middle class.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.19
Sidney Webb family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“He does not appear to have told Beatrice about this.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.20
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
document
“...but Sidney introduced his parents to Bernard Shaw, Graham Wallas and the other friends he made during the next ten years.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.21
Sidney Webb met_with
Graham Wallas documented
document
“...but Sidney introduced his parents to Bernard Shaw, Graham Wallas and the other friends he made during the next ten years.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.21
Sidney Webb member_of
London Library documented
document
“He became a member of the London Library and a reader at the British Museum and devoured books at a rate that left his friends - and his examiners - humbled and aghast.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.21
Sidney Webb studied_at
City of London College documented
document
“At the end of 1876 Sidney took a first-class certificate in German from the City of London College.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.22
Sidney Webb studied_at
Society for the Extension of Further Education documented
document
“Lest this should be taken to mark a falling-off in ambition, it should be explained that he simultaneously enrolled at four institutions of continuing education in London. These were the Society for the Extension of Further Education...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.22
Sidney Webb studied_at
Society for the Extension of University Teaching documented
document
“Lest this should be taken to mark a falling-off in ambition, it should be explained that he simultaneously enrolled at four institutions of continuing education in London. These were... the Society for the Extension of University Teaching..…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.22
Sidney Webb studied_at
Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce documented
document
“Lest this should be taken to mark a falling-off in ambition, it should be explained that he simultaneously enrolled at four institutions of continuing education in London. These were... the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufac…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.22
Sidney Webb studied_at
Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution documented
document
“Lest this should be taken to mark a falling-off in ambition, it should be explained that he simultaneously enrolled at four institutions of continuing education in London. These were... Also the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.22
Sidney Webb studied_at
Birkbeck documented
document
“While at Birkbeck, Sidney led his first public movement for institutional reform.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.23
Sidney Webb worked_for
British War Office documented
document
“He had entered the War Office in 1878 as a lower-division clerk.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.23
Sidney Webb worked_for
Inland Revenue documented
document
“In the following year he went into the Inland Revenue as a Surveyor of Taxes.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.23
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Sydney Olivier documented
document
“The near namesakes, who were both for a time in the West Indian department as well as being resident clerks together, soon became firm friends.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.24
Sidney Webb studied_at
Trinity College, Cambridge documented
document
“In 1883 Sidney competed for the Whewell Scholarships in international law awarded by Trinity College, Cambridge.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.24
Sir Robert Hundert met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“The Permanent Under-Secretary, Sir Robert Hundert, commended him on the skill with which he made out his case.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.24
The Earl of Derby met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“The Earl of Derby wrote to the Master of Trinity on Webb's behalf.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.24
Sidney Webb studied_at
Trinity College documented
document
“Trinity could not be induced to make a concession.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.25
Sidney Webb worked_for
Working Men's College documented
document
“When he gave his first series of public lectures at the Working Men's College, he proudly and defiantly described himself as 'Second Whewell Scholar in International Law'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.25
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Mark Pattison documented
document
“When Mark Pattison's Memoirs were published in 1885, Sidney became engrossed in them.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.25
Sidney Webb relationship_with
John Stuart Mill documented
document
“In these lectures Sidney swiftly dispatched the Almighty - although in a very tolerant, reasonable and sympathetic manner that was wholly becoming to an admirer of the late John Stuart Mill.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.26
Sidney Webb member_of
Zetetical Society documented
document
“From a student debating club Sidney moved on in 1879 to the Zetetical Society…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.27
Sidney Webb met_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
document
“Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, who met each other for the first time at a Zetetical meeting in 1879.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.28
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
document
“At least 5 of the 13 members of the committee subsequently became Fabians: among these were George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.27
Sidney Webb worked_for
Zetetical Society documented
document
“On 22 March 1882 Sidney gave a paper to the Zetetical Society in which he attempted to make good these contentions concerning the new learning of the nineteenth century.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.33
Sidney Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
document
“Yet that they met there is incontrovertible, as that their friendship was of high importance for them both and for socialism in England.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.37
Sidney Webb operated_in
United Kingdom documented
document
“he was already the most knowledgeable and most able man in England.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.37
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Ada Webb documented
document
“it was Wallas and Olivier who widened his historical understanding, particularly of classical antiquity, and they helped him to instruct himself and his sister Ada in studying Virgil and Horace, Cicero and Lucian.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.39
Sidney Webb member_of
Lambeth Parliament documented
document
“In 1883 and 1884 he was active in the 'Lambeth Parliament'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.40
Sidney Webb headed
Lambeth Parliament documented
document
“He served as 'Foreign Secretary' and then as 'Colonial Secretary' in successive Liberal 'administrations'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.40
George Bernard Shaw invited
Sidney Webb documented
document
“When Shaw invited him to join the Land Reform Union, one of several organisations that flourished under the impact of Henry George's propaganda for land nationalisation, Sidney declined except under certain conditions:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
Sidney Webb worked_for
Land Reform Union documented
document
“I enclose 2s 6d and should like to be a member of your society, if nationalisation is not an article of faith ... but if the committee should not care about such a cold-blooded member, please return the 2s 6d ...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
F. Y. Edgeworth met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“Sidney described the scene for the benefit of GBS: We were eleven, and you were the faithless apostle. Mrs Wilson - who appeared to my astonished gaze as a 'Rosetti' young woman with dense hair - read a most elaborate analysis of Chapter I …”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
Sidney Webb met_with
Charlotte Wilson documented
document
“Sidney described the scene for the benefit of GBS: We were eleven, and you were the faithless apostle. Mrs Wilson - who appeared to my astonished gaze as a 'Rosetti' young woman with dense hair - read a most elaborate analysis of Chapter I …”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.41
Sidney Webb worked_for
Karl Marx documented
document
“For four years between 1883 and 1886 he led a prolonged discussion with his three friends and others on Marx methodology, his theory of value and his concept of socialism.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.42
Sidney Webb proposed
Rent, Interest & Wages: Being a Criticism of Karl Marx and a Statement of Economic Theory documented
document
“It was not until 1886 when he wrote a paper on 'Rent, Interest & Wages: Being a Criticism of Karl Marx and a Statement of Economic Theory' that he arrived at any settled opinion.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.42
Sidney Webb worked_for
London Dialectical Society documented
document
“This thesis which had been advanced before the London Dialectical Society in February 1884 was developed in a paper entitled 'The Way Out' which Sidney read almost exactly a year later.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.47
Sidney Webb proposed
The Way Out documented
document
“This thesis which had been advanced before the London Dialectical Society in February 1884 was developed in a paper entitled 'The Way Out' which Sidney read almost exactly a year later.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.47
Sidney Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
document
“If it was the social question and Karl Marx, not Horace or Ovid, that he and Wallas, Olivier and Shaw were most concerned with when their friendship was formed in 1882-3...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.49
Sidney Webb worked_for
Fabian Society documented
document
“By the following year he was on the executive.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.50
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Graham Wallas documented
document
“Although in future years their friendship was to be clouded by differences of policy and temperament, Graham Wallas never forgot how 'extraordinarily kind and helpful' Sidney had been in the summer of 1885.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb lived_in
Brussels documented
document
“Nor did a holiday in Brussels followed by long walks round Stonehenge and through the West Country.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb lived_in
Stonehenge documented
document
“Nor did a holiday in Brussels followed by long walks round Stonehenge and through the West Country.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb lived_in
West Country documented
document
“Nor did a holiday in Brussels followed by long walks round Stonehenge and through the West Country.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb lived_in
Salisbury documented
document
“For a moment Salisbury charmed him, until he pulled himself up and acknowledged 'better fifty years of London than a cycle of decay'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb lived_in
Amesbury documented
document
“Walking from Amesbury he felt 'almost happy' in his thoughts and built 'all sorts of Castles' until he remembered that he had been drinking beer 'which always gets into my head'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.55
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Else Webb documented
document
“As to Else (?), she is very well but I am not in love with her and leaving out of account this inexplicable emotion which 'bloweth where it listeth' beyond all ken or reason, I don't think I should have married her.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.56
Sidney Webb moved_to
United Kingdom documented
document
“He returned to England in October…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.58
Sidney Webb succeeded
Frederic Keddell documented
document
“It was through the resignation of its secretary, Frederic Keddell, that a vacancy arose on the executive that Webb came to fill.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.59
Sidney Webb did_business_with
Frank Podmore documented
document
“he helped Frank Podmore to draw up a report on 'The Government Organisation of Unemployed Labour'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.61
Sidney Webb met_with
Edward Pease documented
document
“He went on a week's walking tour with Pease in Northumberland before joining a party of friends for a holiday in Scandinavia.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb moved_to
Northumberland documented
document
“He went on a week's walking tour with Pease in Northumberland before joining a party of friends for a holiday in Scandinavia.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb moved_to
Scandinavia documented
document
“He went on a week's walking tour with Pease in Northumberland before joining a party of friends for a holiday in Scandinavia.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb moved_to
New York City documented
document
“What Sidney noticed at York - apart from the fact that the whole population seemed to be in transit - was 'a most Romanish reredos in the shape of a triptych by Tinworth of the Crucifixion'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb moved_to
Cordell Hull documented
document
“Hull was made memorable, not by the docks, 'but the worst statue I ever saw.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb moved_to
Salisbury documented
document
“In Salisbury in the previous year, he had found the town chiefly remarkable for alehouses, but the Cathedralosity impressed me…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.62
Sidney Webb founded
Fabian Parliamentary League documented
document
“So as to save Mrs Wilson and the small band of anarchists whose main base was in the Fabian Society, it was decided to establish a Fabian Parliamentary League.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.63
Sidney Webb met_with
Graham Wallas documented
document
“He asked Wallas: What do you think of running a series of lectures in the Fabian this winter on 'The Mistakes of Socialists'?…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.63
Sidney Webb did_business_with
Robert Giffen documented
document
“Sidney, unlike Hyndman, had acquainted himself with Giffen's entire literary output.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.64
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Parliamentary League documented
document
“Sidney, along with Shaw, Olivier, Bland and Russell, drew up the rules: The Fabian Parliamentary League is composed of socialists who believe that socialism may be most quickly and most surely realised by utilising the political power alrea…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.65
Sidney Webb member_of
Charing Cross Debating Society documented
document
“GBS at the Local Government Board…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.68
Sidney Webb met_with
Lord Wemyss documented
document
“But what mattered was not primarily that Wemyss should notice Sidney playing Colonial Secretary at Lambeth or Chancellor at Charing Cross, but that he suggested a measure for the advance of socialism which Sidney had earlier rejected but no…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.69
Sidney Webb worked_for
Hampstead Society for the Study of Socialism documented
document
“A month or two after Wemyss's speech Sidney spoke to the Hampstead Society for the Study of Socialism on 'The Economic Basis of Socialism and its Political Programme'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.69
Sidney Webb member_of
The Argosy documented
document
“The Argosy, which Sidney joined in November 1882, always met there.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.70
Sidney Webb lived_in
Hampstead documented
document
“Hampstead was, appropriately enough, the scene of most of the discussions, formal and informal, out of which Fabianism emerged.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.70
Sidney Webb met_with
Arthur William à Beckett documented
document
“Early in 1888, Wallas remarked to Olivier, Shaw and Webb:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.70
Sidney Webb met_with
William Edward Hartpole Lecky documented
document
“Early in 1888, Wallas remarked to Olivier, Shaw and Webb:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.70
Sidney Webb met_with
E.R. Pease documented
document
“Sidney had secured, in view of his excellent services at the Colonial Office, special permission to take three months' leave to visit America with E.R. Pease.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.71
Sidney Webb worked_for
Hampstead Historic documented
document
“In the 'Historic Basis of Socialism', Sidney elaborated the ideas which he had first publicly advanced before the Hampstead Society in December 1887.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.72
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Hubert Bland documented
document
“Bland rose to an explicit critique of Webb's position.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.75
Bertrand Russell relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“To which Bertrand Russell replied: 'Well, Webb, either the conclusions follow anyway, or else you are guilty of sophistry.'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.76
Sidney Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
document
“In the case of the Fabians there is no mistaking their consciousness of themselves as a contingent almost exclusively recruited from a nouvelle couche sociale: the shabby genteel intellectual proletariat.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.77
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Karl Marx documented
document
“Webb and other Fabians frequently reproached Marx with obscuring the decisive role of trained and skilled management, and of professional administrators.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.80
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“Shaw introduced Sidney to Marx…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb moved_to
CIA documented
document
“Sidney was taking three months' holiday in the United Sates in the company of Edward Pease.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb moved_to
Boston documented
document
“They spent much of their time in Boston…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb met_with
Francis Amasa Walker documented
document
“where he enjoyed the company of General FA. Walker…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb met_with
Walt Whitman documented
document
“Apart from Walt Whitman - who was ill - Walker appears to have been the most distinguished American with whom they were able to make an acquaintance.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb studied_at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology documented
document
“Sidney was deeply impressed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Jeremy Bentham documented
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“to have had Bentham for his first teacher…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Friedrich Engels relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Engels might complain that Sidney and his friends hushed up the class struggle…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.82
Sidney Webb taught_at
Working Men's College documented
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“he had become a lecturer in Political Economy at the Working Men's College.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.83
Sidney Webb taught_at
City of London College documented
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“From 1887 he began increasingly to lecture at the City of London College where he himself had once been a student.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.83
Sidney Webb recruited
E.R. Pease documented
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“Webb saw that he was a born secretary and secured his services for himself and the Fabian Society.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.84
Sidney Webb worked_for
Holborn Society Liberal & Radical Association documented
document
“He appeared in both these capacities when as secretary of the Holborn Society Liberal & Radical Association he engaged Gladstone in a correspondence at the end of 1888.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.85
Sidney Webb met_with
William Ewart Gladstone documented
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“He appeared in both these capacities when as secretary of the Holborn Society Liberal & Radical Association he engaged Gladstone in a correspondence at the end of 1888.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.85
Sidney Webb member_of
Central Democratic Club documented
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“Thus he was invited to become a member of the Committee of the Central Democratic Club, an institution which was intended to provide a meeting place for the leading personalities of the labour, Radical and socialist movements.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Sidney Webb met_with
Friedrich Engels documented
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“Sidney and Friedrich Engels went out into the Grays Inn Road and agreed that the wines would have been better for a little more warmth, but were otherwise seemingly well satisfied with the occasion.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Sidney Webb met_with
Tom Mann documented
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“In 1889 he enjoyed a very good dinner, at one shilling a head, in the company of Mahon, the club manager, and many others. These included J. Harrison Davidson... Eduard Bernstein, Tom Mann, Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Sidney Webb met_with
Eleanor Marx documented
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“In 1889 he enjoyed a very good dinner, at one shilling a head, in the company of Mahon, the club manager, and many others. These included J. Harrison Davidson... Eduard Bernstein, Tom Mann, Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Sidney Webb met_with
Eduard Bernstein documented
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“In 1889 he enjoyed a very good dinner, at one shilling a head, in the company of Mahon, the club manager, and many others. These included J. Harrison Davidson... Eduard Bernstein, Tom Mann, Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Sidney Webb met_with
J. Harrison Davidson documented
document
“In 1889 he enjoyed a very good dinner, at one shilling a head, in the company of Mahon, the club manager, and many others. These included J. Harrison Davidson... Eduard Bernstein, Tom Mann, Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.86
Edward Pease married
Sidney Webb documented
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“Nothing could have pleased me more than that you should marry Pease - unless it was that Pease should marry you - and here as both events happening together.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.87
Sidney Webb operated_in
CIA documented
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“Having frankly avowed my position towards you I proceed to America.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.88
Sidney Webb lived_in
Cheltenham documented
document
“I am pleased that your are at Cheltenham, but don't put off the marriage.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.88
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Edward Pease documented
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“Pease never would discuss plans of travel, we quarrelled daily on this point - as I would not give way.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.90
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Mrs Wilson documented
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“He possesses as Mrs Wilson acutely says the Anarchist mind.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.89
Sidney Webb lived_in
London documented
document
“The young Webb loved London, and cared deeply for Wallas and other friends.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.92
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“During the prolonged and difficult negotiations, which culminated in the formation of the partnership, Sidney advanced his cause as best he might.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.96
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“Thus Sidney Webb and Beatrice Porter shared not a common education but rather an overlapping range of concerns and a common intellectual inheritance.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.106
Sidney Webb met_with
F. Y. Edgeworth documented
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“When Professor Edgeworth - fresh from dancing on Karl Marx's grave in the company of Sidney Webb - showed her 'the furtive glance of unsatisfied desire', she remarked: 'Tiresome man. He misunderstands my characteristic frankness and takes i…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.155
Beatrice Webb met_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Miss Beatrice Potter first met Mr Sidney Webb in January 1890.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.172
Mentions (32)
▶ 19:43
Though the Milner group focused more on imperial elitist federalism, while Fabian's prioritized socialist permeation of existing structures, their overlap in personal ties, like Milner himself and his coefficient dining club founded by Sidn…
▶ 1:30:35
What I was looking at was what was he referring to when he said that communists were Jewish? And I started looking at the Russian Revolution. And you go to these guys that orchestrated basically the Ukrainian genocide. Yeah, the Bolsheviks.…
▶ 1:13:17
If you draw the lines of all of these things, like, for example, the London School of Economics, that is one of the things that comes up repeatedly. And that is, it was founded by Fabian Society member Sidney and Patrice Webb. And so, again…
▶ 6:58
And so while they are marching on their highway, the parallel highway of communism has a lot of entrance and exit ramps. Very good. OK, the rest of the reading list. I'm going to put that up there. The foundational text was a series of essa…
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i think that's where i'm going to settle on that woke death cult okay population is west yeah we'll get there um another important work was industrial democracy that was written by husband wife two of the real key founders sydney and beatri…
▶ 44:31
And the first two are Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who would get married. And I look at this picture. The colonel sent me this photo, so I used it. She is an ugly woman. If I was studying psychic research like Frank Podmore, I would have thoug…
▶ 49:15
in um this uh structure they did it both in britain and america using couples um one of which you're gonna find out is um fdr and eleanor eleanor has a huge role in all of this in upcoming sessions so um sydney webb was basically what i wou…
▶ 51:06
He was a civil servant working in the colonial office. And again, that just is the reason why I said what I had just said was because it depicts Webb. Webb was one of the true architects of how to infiltrate civil service to run the governm…
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And he in contrast to Webb, Webb was very reserved. Webb was very quiet. Shaw was exactly the opposite. Obviously big in the gradualism piece of this and that he argued that socialists should infiltrate every political party. Now, we alread…
▶ 1:08:59
and we go we go on this is a great piece you guys don't download this for free at the hoover institute but i thought that you know it was a nice little icing on what we've been talking about today yeah so um as a transition to our future sh…
▶ 1:09:29
Did you know that in the middle of the famine in the Soviet Union that Sidney and Beatrice traveled to Stalin's Soviet Union and they returned home and produced a 1,200-page love letter of the Bolshevik regime praising how well it had been …
▶ 21:48
Well, we're going to get to the webs. We'll start with Sidney. That's the gentleman. Born 1859 and lives to 1947. So about 88 years old. Don't they look like modern day Democrats? Last week, someone said that she looks like a conehead. I th…
▶ 22:24
He supported eugenics policies and a technocratic state, even used the terminology. He's the guy who originated the phrase, the inevitability of gradualness. He would describe the Fabians as Latter-day Benthamites. That's a name for a philo…
▶ 23:30
or whose property they have to take away. If it helps all these people over here, you people don't here don't have rights. And that's really fundamentally right here. Utilitarianism philosophy versus our individual rights, natural, you know…
▶ 24:04
It's God complex, too. Yeah. So he would go on to meet. He would marry Beatrice Porter, who's Beatrice Webb, about eight years after they co-founded the Fabians. Be interesting if there is any fun stories about that. And of course, they wou…
▶ 24:36
But Sidney would actually serve on the school as the professor of public administration from 1912 to 1927. So this is who you've got teaching economics and all these theories to future economists that are going to be leaders and administrat…
▶ 25:12
Pretty important historical figure. I mean, the influence of this guy, it's amazing. He would end up writing something called Clause 4 in the 1918 Labour Party, whatever their manifesto was. And the whole idea is to set out the aims and val…
▶ 25:44
Pretty much the entire economy should have common ownership. And that is going to be the Labour Party's one of its core values, which, of course, is controversial when you're trying to win elections because sometimes people like to keep the…
▶ 26:19
So you actually have the government in power in the United Kingdom right this minute. This basically stands for common ownership and the means of production, distribution and exchange. It's also interesting to note that he studied. He was f…
▶ 26:47
produced a lot of the people that we covered in the first couple of weeks. Yeah. A lot of philosophers. Yep. Indeed. Okay. So he was real big in the labor party, served in a lot of labor offices later in life. He was a member of parliament …
▶ 27:23
I guess the town crier in for ages. So now he's a baron. As a colonial secretary, he issued something called the Passfield White Paper, which basically reversed British policy that Churchill had written for over about Palestine. So rather i…
▶ 27:57
So some of his famous writings, the big one he wrote was the history of trade unionism in 1894. But he also wrote a lot of things for the Fabians. You know, there's little tracks. There's a lot of tracks on archive.org that he wrote. Yeah. …
▶ 28:32
Just read some of the titles and look for the authors. You've got George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb. But look at the titles. Why are the many poor? What socialism is. Capital and land. Figures for Londoners. The workers' political program. T…
▶ 30:02
Central Africa and the League of Nations, they would be pushing for that. Of course they were. They want one world government. Way back then. Here's Sidney Webb writing for the reform of the House of Lords. And what just happened? Didn't th…
▶ 30:37
Exactly. That's my point. They're like the biggest hypocrites. Okay, so his big topics, poverty in London, the eight-hour workday, land nationalization, which we'll talk about more in a bit, the nature of socialism, education, eugenics, and…
▶ 36:09
Understandable. Like I said, these people aren't inherently evil, except for the fact that they don't care about your rights. In their mind, they're being egalitarian. And they're coming out of the post-industrial age where we definitely, y…
▶ 40:51
So we can skip Bertrand Russell for now. Just know that he's very, very important. Fair enough? Yep. In 1932, Beatrice Webb was elected a fellow of the British Academy. She's the very first woman to get that honor. So women's rights pioneer…
▶ 50:13
Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…
▶ 59:39
So George Bernard Shaw starts attending meetings of Social Democratic SDF, Social Democratic Federation, where he discovers the writings of Karl Marx, where he reads Das Kapital. The Social Democratic Federation was led by a guy by the name…
▶ 1:02:17
So we're about 1894. He starts having some success with literary success with his plays. And the first big hit he had was called Arms and the Man, which satirized love, military honor and social class. So he's a satirist making fun of him. …
▶ 8:03
It's going to permeate. You know, we talked about last week, a lot of these Fabians were into homoeroticism and stuff like that. So it just fits so perfect. It does. Great job, Sweet Sally. Thank you. I've been laughing about that ever sinc…
▶ 59:27
He was a member of something called the Coefficient's Dining Club, which was set up in 1902 by none other than Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The Fabians. Yes. So another example of a pilgrim out with Fabians. Correct. The Coefficient's Dining C…