Beatrice Webb person
· born in Standish
also: Aunt Bo, Beatrice, Beatrice Porter, Beatrice Potter, Beatrice Potter-Webb, Bertrice Webb, future Mrs Sidney Webb, her, his wife, the social investigator Beatrice Webb, Miss Beatrice Potter, Miss Potter, Mrs Webb, Patrice Webb, she, the Webbs, the webs, The young Beatrice, Webb, Webs, young Beatrice
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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
Beatrice Webb moved_to
New Zealand documented
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“On 10 July they were aboard the Coptic bound for New Zealand via Honolulu. They arrived in Auckland on 3 August.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.331
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Australia documented
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“They left Wellington for Sydney on 2 September. They spent a couple of months in Australia before returning to England in December.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.331
C.P. Trevelyan met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“The young C.P. Trevelyan accompanied them.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.331
Beatrice Webb met_with
Jane Addams documented
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“They did not seek out trade union organisers or socialist leaders, although they visited Jane Addams at Hull House, Chicago, a rough equivalent of Toynbee Hall.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.332
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Richard Oliver documented
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“In New Zealand, the family association with Richard Oliver, Otago businessman and leader of the opposition, did not prevent them from recognising in R.J. Seddon... an archetypal representative of a labourist political culture.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.332
Beatrice Webb met_with
Wellington Trades Council documented
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“Towards the end of their Australian tour the Webbs were actually taken prisoner by the SDF types. They had done their best to keep off platforms, although they had both addressed the Wellington Trades Council on their…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.333
Beatrice Webb invested_in
The Echo documented
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“a journal in which the Webbs had acquired a small financial interest.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.335
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Melbourne documented
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“In Melbourne Sidney refused to give the Victorian Socialists a lecture, but a public reception was advertised all the same…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.334
Beatrice Webb lived_in
New Zealand documented
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“last night in New Zealand.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.334
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Australia documented
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“Before she got to Australasia Beatrice came near to setting up what might have been a researchable problem.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.335
Beatrice Webb moved_to
United Kingdom documented
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“Sidney and Beatrice returned to England via the Red Sea.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.336
Beatrice Webb family_of
Kate Courtney documented
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“Then a month or two later she would tease her sister Kate Courtney, whose husband had sacrificed everything for his pro-Boer convictions...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.338
Beatrice 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
W. A. S. Hewins met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Towards the end of his life W.A.S. Hewins had a chance meeting with Beatrice Webb in London.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.347
Beatrice Webb met_with
Sister Kate documented
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“From Sister Kate, Beatrice learned at first hand what it was like to be completely out of it…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
C. Alfred Cripps documented
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“Dining with Alfred Cripps in a private room in the House of Commons…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Robert Corson documented
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“she struggled on chatting with Carson…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Willie Cripps documented
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“On Sunday she had supped with Willie Cripps.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Creightons documented
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“On Tuesday she had dined with the Creightons and Professor Ramsay to talk London University.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Professor Ramsay documented
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“On Tuesday she had dined with the Creightons and Professor Ramsay to talk London University.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Lord Rosebery documented
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“Haldane sat me down next to Lord Rosebery against the will of the latter who tried his best to avoid me as neighbour…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.350
Beatrice Webb met_with
Arthur Balfour documented
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“Two years later she was taking the Prime Minister himself into dinner.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Beatrice Webb met_with
Lady Elcho documented
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“Then there was a dinner to Lady Elcho to acknowledge her kindness to us in Gloucestershire and our introduction to Balfour…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Beatrice Webb met_with
Shaws documented
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“So I asked her to meet John Burns, the Shaws, H.G. Wells, and Asquith...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Beatrice Webb met_with
H. G. Wells documented
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“So I asked her to meet John Burns, the Shaws, H.G. Wells, and Asquith...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Beatrice Webb met_with
H. H. Asquith documented
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“So I asked her to meet John Burns, the Shaws, H.G. Wells, and Asquith...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Beatrice Webb met_with
Winston Churchill documented
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“We went to dinner with Winston Churchill.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.351
Bonar Law met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Bonar Law was present at this lunch, but apart from noting the fact Beatrice paid no further attention.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.352
Arthur Balfour met_with
Beatrice 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
Arthur Balfour appointed
Beatrice Webb documented
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“On the way to the theatre the Prime Minister apologetically explained to her why he could not supply her with better colleagues on the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, to which she had just been appointed.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.355
Beatrice Webb worked_for
International Congress of Women documented
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“Having got herself involved with the essentially timid and woolly-headed International Congress of Women she suddenly discovered the importance of principle and withdrew from the executive...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.359
Beatrice Webb met_with
Virginia Woolf documented
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“The conversation took place in September 1918... Beatrice Webb: 'Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.' Virginia Woolf: 'Wouldn't an old servant do as well?'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.358
Beatrice Webb had_affair_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
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“In facing that her passion for Chamberlain was related to a desire to submit to the most masterful figure of the time, she brought herself to the conundrum that was to confront succeeding generations.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.361
Beatrice 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
Beatrice 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
Beatrice 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…”
source: url — Meet the four founders of LSE - LSE History · p.1
Beatrice 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
Beatrice 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
Beatrice Webb proposed
My Apprenticeship documented
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“My Apprenticeship, by Beatrice Webb, who tried working with the…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.34
Beatrice Webb wrote
My Apprenticeship documented
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“Beatrice Webb’s autobiography underlines this from her own early experience.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.35
Beatrice Webb contributed_to
Life and Labour of the People of London documented
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“the future Mrs Sidney Webb, working as a ‘plain trouser-hand’ in the service of sweating employers, had made her contribution.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.61
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
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
Beatrice 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
Beatrice Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“A passage in Beatrice’s Diary makes it perfectly clear that the Fabian Executive was not on any account to receive a large increase in its regular income…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.95
George Bernard Shaw relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Shaw, who had taken no apparent objection to the original proposition, exploded in a long and angry letter to Beatrice.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.97
James Ramsay MacDonald relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“The truth is’, wrote Beatrice, ‘that we and MacDonald are opposed on a radical issue of policy.…”
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
Joseph Chamberlain documented
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“Moreover, it must be remembered that Sidney’s first advances came not many years after the abrupt ending of her abortive romance with Joseph Chamberlain.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.105
Beatrice Webb met_with
Arthur Balfour documented
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“...they began to have dinner parties with Society personalities like Arthur Balfour and the ‘Souls’...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.105
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Fabian Society documented
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“she did not play any active part in the governance of the Fabian Society…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
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
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“She was also, as her Diaries show, lukewarm in her appreciation of Sidney’s colleagues, Shaw included…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
J. A. Hobson documented
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“had no part in the teamwork of the Fabian Executive which Hobson found so exciting…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Hutchinson Trust documented
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“The episode of the Hutchinson Trust persuaded her that the Society might become a useful means of educating that part of the public…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Beatrice Webb studied_at
London School of Economics documented
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“she still looked to the School of Economics rather than the Fabians to provide the leaders…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Herbert Spencer influenced
Beatrice Webb documented
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“It was Herbert Spencer, in her lonely girlhood, who infected her with this enthusiasm…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.106
Beatrice Webb wrote
Methods of Social Study documented
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“in Methods of Social Study, the most personal of all her works except the Diaries, she wrote of the joys of the investigator’s life…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.109
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Soviet Union documented
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“even the Socialism she thought to have found in the U.S.S.R.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.109
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
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Arthur Balfour documented
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“Beatrice actually preferred Balfour the Tory to anyone else except possibly Haldane.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.111
Beatrice Webb founded
National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution documented
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“Beatrice Webb in 1910-11, formed, with the Fabian Society as nucleus, a group of this nature, which was called the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.113
Beatrice Webb worked_for
London School of Economics documented
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“trained very thoroughly (maybe in the Webbs’ ideal School of Economics) in information, draughtsmanship, and the sense of what was immediately possible…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.114
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Mary Playne documented
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“The frankest accounts of Beatrice’s ‘permeating’ activities—at-dinner-parties and the like—are contained in her own letters to her sister Mary Playne…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.115
Beatrice Webb wrote
Our Partnership documented
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“Beatrice Webb, in Our Partnership (p. 192), drew attention to this…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.128
Arthur Balfour relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“...and Balfour the Prime Minister an old friend of Beatrice...…”
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
Beatrice Webb met_with
H. G. Wells documented
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“Beatrice (who had talked over the subject with Wells at a meeting of a club called the Co-Efficients)...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.148
Beatrice Webb member_of
Co-Efficients documented
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“Beatrice (who had talked over the subject with Wells at a meeting of a club called the Co-Efficients)...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.148
H. G. Wells relationship_with
Beatrice 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
Charles Booth family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Beatrice Webb’s cousin Charles Booth…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.166
Balfour Government appointed
Beatrice Webb documented
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“the Prime Minister should have included in its membership the eminent Fabian lady who was also his personal friend, Mrs Sidney Webb.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.168
Beatrice Webb member_of
Royal Commission on the Poor Laws documented
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“the Prime Minister should have included in its membership the eminent Fabian lady who was also his personal friend, Mrs Sidney Webb.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.168
James Davy met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Mr J. S. (later Sir James) Davy... would scarcely have committed the magnificent and most fortunate gaffe of seeking a private meeting in which he confided to her his intentions…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.168
Beatrice Webb met_with
George Lansbury documented
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“'Today,' wrote Beatrice gleefully, 'I put Mr Lansbury [a fellow-Commissioner] on his guard.'…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.168
Beatrice Webb wrote
Minority Report on the Poor Laws documented
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“At the beginning of 1909 emerged the Minority Report... getting only two signatures besides her own and Lansbury’s to her Minority Report…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.168
Beatrice Webb headed
National Council for the Prevention of Destitution documented
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“Running a large office organisation was a new venture for Beatrice... Within a very short space of time the N.C.P.D. had enrolled over sixteen thousand members…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.170
Beatrice 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
Christabel Pankhurst relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Since the publication of Christabel Pankhurst’s Unshackled, it is an interesting exercise to compare the methods of the Webbs with those of the Pankhursts... Mrs Webb had more in common with Mrs Pankhurst than she would have cared to admit…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.170
H. G. Wells met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“‘What a mass of stuff it all is,’ wrote Wells to Beatrice in February 1909…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.170
Beatrice 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
Beatrice Webb appointed
Committee of Enquiry on Rural Problems documented
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“In the summer of 1912, on Beatrice’s suggestion, the Executive appointed two Committees of Enquiry.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.180
Beatrice Webb appointed
Committee on Control of Industry documented
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“In the summer of 1912, on Beatrice’s suggestion, the Executive appointed two Committees of Enquiry.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.180
Beatrice Webb headed
Fabian Research Committee documented
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“Beatrice was its chairman.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.181
Beatrice Webb founded
New Statesman documented
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“It was during her world tour that Beatrice convinced herself of the need to establish a weekly journal of fact and discussion... she decided that the Crusade was already too much associated with a specific policy... and that an entirely new…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.185
Beatrice Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“‘that you and Sidney can found a paper far more easily than you founded the London School of Economics.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.186
Beatrice Webb proposed
Research Department documented
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“Beatrice had suggested a federal form of government for the Research Department, with the Fabian Society, the Labour Party, and the Unions sharing control.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.196
Beatrice Webb founded
Labour Research Society reported
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“In 1916-17 she was hoping still to found a new ‘Labour Research Society’, with Cole’s collaboration…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.196
G. D. H. Cole relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“A vivid illustration of the varying Cole-Webb attitude is to be found in some correspondence of 1917 with Beatrice Webb…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.196
Beatrice Webb headed
International Socialist Bureau documented
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“she herself was chosen chairman of the standing joint committee of the three executives.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.200
Beatrice 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
Beatrice Webb member_of
Statutory Committee on War Pensions documented
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“Early in 1916 the Statutory Committee on War Pensions (of which Beatrice Webb was a member) proposed that local Pensions Committees…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.208
Beatrice Webb funded
Trade Union Survey Committee documented
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“with the approval and encouragement of Mrs Webb... a “Trade Union Survey Committee’ was established…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.211
Barbara Drake family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Barbara Drake2—Beatrice Webb’s niece…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.216
Beatrice Webb member_of
Reconstruction Committee documented
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“Beatrice Webb was a member of that Committee…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.218
Beatrice Webb member_of
Haldane Committee on the Machinery of Government documented
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“she herself sitting on the Haldane Committee on the Machinery of Government…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.218
Beatrice Webb member_of
Maclean Committee on the Poor Law documented
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“and the Maclean Committee on the Poor Law, which she quickly converted to produce a version of her own Minority Report of nine years back.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.218
Beatrice Webb met_with
Mrs Frank Hodges documented
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“The idea [Beatrice wrote]! arose in my mind in a long talk with Mrs Frank Hodges? steaming up the Lake of Geneva at the International Socialist Conference last August.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.229
Beatrice Webb met_with
Arthur Henderson documented
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“So ‘I got hold of Mrs Henderson and Mrs Thomas, who happened to be at Geneva...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.229
Beatrice Webb met_with
Mrs Thomas documented
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“So ‘I got hold of Mrs Henderson and Mrs Thomas, who happened to be at Geneva...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.229
Beatrice Webb met_with
Mrs Clynes documented
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“...and opened up communication with Mrs Clynes when I got back to London...…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.229
Beatrice Webb founded
Half-Circle Club documented
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“Hence the Half-Circle Club.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.229
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Bernard Shaw documented
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“‘You must be very happy,’ Ellen Terry had written a generation ago to Bernard Shaw, ‘with Mrs Webb to “arrange” you.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.230
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Soviet Union documented
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“It was in 1932 that the Webbs went to Russia…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.252
Beatrice Webb moved_to
St. Petersburg documented
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“The Webbs sailed for Leningrad in May…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.261
George Lansbury met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“it was welcomed by Henderson, who, writing to Cole from the Disarmament Conference at Geneva…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.263
Beatrice Webb operated_in
Soviet Union documented
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“the investigators, like the Webbs, rejoiced to see what they wanted to see…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.263
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Soviet Union documented
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“...his political interest, as well as that of Beatrice, had already in effect left England for the U.S.S.R.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.286
Beatrice Webb proposed
Minority Report to the Poor Law Commission documented
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“Beatrice Webb’s Minority Report to the Poor Law Commission... was itself a fully worked out and cogently argued scheme of social security.…”
source: book — The Story of Fabian Socialism · p.369
Beatrice Webb founded
Passfield Trustees documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
Fabian Society documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
London School of Economics documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
Labour Party (UK) documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
New Statesman documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
Political Quarterly documented
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“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
Beatrice Webb founded
Tribune documented
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“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 family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
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“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 relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“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
Richard Potter family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“While he was a public employee, the son of a self-employed hairdresser and of a doubtfully qualified professional man, she was the eighth child and eighth daughter of a great capitalist. Richard Potter was so great a capitalist that he coul…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.96
Beatrice Webb born_in
Standish documented
document
“Beatrice was born there on 2 January 1858.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.99
Beatrice Webb moved_to
CIA documented
document
“Beatrice went to the United States with her father and the Playnes…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.99
Beatrice Webb met_with
George Pullman documented
document
“Beatrice was attacked by scarlet fever and had to be carried off the train at Chicago by her father and George Pullman.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.99
Beatrice Webb worked_for
William Harrison Cripps documented
document
“Beatrice took to some laboratory work under his direction.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.100
Beatrice Webb lived_in
West Germany documented
document
“They spent six months together in Germany.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.101
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Wiesbaden documented
document
“In Wiesbaden they would sit together far into the night, their feet cocked high on the China stove, smoking cigarettes and talking philosophy.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.101
Carry Darling relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“But if Carry Darling belonged to a class which Beatrice despised she was also a member of an order with which Beatrice sympathised and with which she felt herself to be closely associated.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.102
Maggie Harkness relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Beatrice's close friend and cousin Maggie Harkness was an excellent example of the Glorified Spinster…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.103
Ella Pycroft relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“One of Beatrice's dearest friends after 1885, Ella Pycroft, found the old devotional books full of a faith that she no longer shared, but which she still found almost as soothing as the cigarettes to which Beatrice helped to introduce her.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.103
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Benjamin Jones documented
document
“It was distasteful, but it was difficult to formulate an objection to it in a rational form.31 However she was quite decided that she was not going to be guilty of lapses that might cut her off from her family or turn her into a social outc…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.105
Maggie Harkness met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Thus, after Maggie Harkness introduced her into the 'British Museum set' she bumped into Karl Marx's daughter, Tussy.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.105
Beatrice Webb met_with
Eleanor Marx documented
document
“Thus, after Maggie Harkness introduced her into the 'British Museum set' she bumped into Karl Marx's daughter, Tussy.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.105
Beatrice Webb met_with
Annie Besant documented
document
“In November of that year Beatrice went along to hear her speak at the Eleusis Club.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.105
Beatrice Webb member_of
Charity Organisation Society documented
document
“So Miss Potter parted with Miss Marx and went on to a meeting of the Charity Organisation Society instead.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.105
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
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
George Eliot documented
document
“By the time she was in her early twenties Beatrice had discovered George Eliot.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.107
Herbert Spencer relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“It was not surprising that Herbert Spencer, who was supposed to have given the positivist tradition its definitive form, was her closest friend and teacher.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.108
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Herbert Spencer documented
document
“Beatrice loved him very much.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.113
Lawrencina Potter family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Beatrice's need for Spencer was surely associated with the birth and death of the only son of Richard and Lawrencina.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.113
Herbert Spencer family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Spencer, on his side, had a great need of affection and modest success in securing it.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.114
Beatrice Webb lived_in
St Peter's documented
document
“Visiting St Peter's in 1880, she felt the temptation to commit intellectual suicide and convert to Catholicism…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.114
Beatrice Webb met_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
document
“Even if Beatrice had not met Joseph Chamberlain in 1883, it is doubtful whether she would have long remained the faithful disciple of Herbert Spencer.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.116
Beatrice Webb moved_to
47 Princes Gate documented
document
“In mid-February she had to leave Rusland Hall to take possession of their London home at 47 Princes Gate.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.119
Beatrice Webb lived_in
London documented
document
“In London she was able to find time for a close reading of Willie Cripps's Adenoid Diseases of the Rectum…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.119
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Willie Cripps documented
document
“to engage in some laboratory work under Cripps's direction.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.119
Beatrice Webb met_with
Mr Pavey documented
document
“It was not long before Beatrice was making the acquaintance of Mr Pavey, a dispenser who took opium and left his wife to support their three children on fifteen shillings a week.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.120
Ella Pycroft met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Ella Pycroft asked: Do you remember telling me when I first knew you how you had helped to bring about the death of an opium eater in Soho?…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.121
Leonard Courtney met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Leonard Courtney was fond of repeating that expression over lunch.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.121
Beatrice Webb met_with
Beatrice Chamberlain documented
document
“In June 1883 Miss Beatrice Potter first made the acquaintance of Miss Beatrice Chamberlain…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.122
Beatrice Webb met_with
Martha Mills documented
document
“In the event she turned to her old nurse, Martha Mills, and filled the autumn evenings at the Argoed with reminiscence.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.125
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Argoed documented
document
“In the event she turned to her old nurse, Martha Mills, and filled the autumn evenings at the Argoed with reminiscence.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.125
Beatrice Webb met_with
Herbert Spencer documented
document
“Her account of 'real' working-class life delighted Herbert Spencer.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.125
Joseph Chamberlain relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“That evening and the next morning until lunch we are on 'susceptible terms'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.126
Beatrice Webb family_of
Lawrence Heyworth documented
document
“"not me", say I humbly, "but I think you knew my grandfather, Lawrence Heyworth."…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.129
Beatrice Webb family_of
Lawrencina Heyworth documented
document
“"Lawrence Heyworth", replies the old man with slow emphasis, "Yes - then you are the daughter of Lawrencina Heyworth - one of the two or three women a man remembers to the end of his life as beautiful in expression and form."…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.129
Beatrice Webb met_with
John Bright documented
document
“John Bright came in and Chamberlain assumed that he knew her…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.129
Beatrice Webb met_with
Austen Chamberlain documented
document
“She went to the Town Hall in the company of Joseph's son, Austen.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.129
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Birmingham documented
document
“In March 1884 she received a pressing invitation from Miss Chamberlain to spend two days in Birmingham.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.128
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
document
“The training she had received from him appeared as a barrier in the way of her union with the man she loved…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.130
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Ella Pycroft documented
document
“In January 1885 Ella Pycroft spent three days with her.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.131
Leonard Courtney family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“He told her that her brother-in-law, Leonard Courtney, was 'an ass'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.131
Joseph Chamberlain met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“It was at this moment that Chamberlain's eye fell upon a letter from Miss Beatrice Potter in the Pall Mall Gazette.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.133
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Pall Mall Gazette documented
document
“It was at this moment that Chamberlain's eye fell upon a letter from Miss Beatrice Potter in the Pall Mall Gazette.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.133
Beatrice Webb met_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
document
“Chamberlain asked if he could come and talk to her about this letter which he had read with 'great interest and agreement'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.134
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Bournemouth documented
document
“Beatrice replied to Chamberlain on 'York House paper' but from Bourne-mouth in a letter of uncertain date.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.135
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Ella Pycroft documented
document
“It will be recalled that Beatrice, referring to her work in co-operation with Ella Pycroft in the Katherine Buildings, began her article by describing herself as a rent-collector...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.139
Beatrice Webb operated_in
Katherine Buildings documented
document
“It will be recalled that Beatrice, referring to her work in co-operation with Ella Pycroft in the Katherine Buildings, began her article by describing herself as a rent-collector...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.139
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Mrs Sullivan documented
document
“Mrs Sullivan was lent money to start old clothes work and it strikes me she has spent it mostly otherwise.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.141
Beatrice Webb met_with
Ella Pycroft documented
document
“I wish you were here. How you would enjoy arguing with the men.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.142
Aarons met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Aarons was busily inditing a letter to you last night, so I hope you will receive it in time to send a reply by Monday.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.142
Paul L. Williams met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Mr Paul says he has told you all the commotion your letter has made…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.142
Beatrice Webb met_with
Bond documented
document
“I told him you did not mean to express approval of their construction, but on the contrary had written so strongly against it to Mr Bond that the plans for the new block had been altered.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.142
Beatrice Webb lived_in
London Docks documented
document
“I am a rent collector in a large block of working class dwellings, situated near the London Docks, designed and adapted to house the lowest class of working poor.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.143
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Katherine Buildings documented
document
“In fact, Beatrice did not return to the buildings for any length of time until the late summer of 1886.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.144
Beatrice Webb paid
Mr Sherman documented
document
“Beatrice paid Mr Sherman's rent.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.146
Beatrice Webb member_of
Charles Booth's statistical research unit documented
document
“Accordingly, she joined the board of Charles Booth's statistical research unit.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.147
Charles Booth family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Booth was a cousin.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.147
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Charles Booth documented
document
“If Beatrice was apprenticed to anyone it was Booth.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.148
Charles Booth met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Booth told her that the first ought to be put away in a drawer and allowed to mature whilst Spencer and Courtney protested against it very vigorously.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.149
Herbert Spencer met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Spencer told her that the economists ought not to be reproached.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.149
Beatrice Webb family_of
Richard Potter documented
document
“He utterly failed to recognise the importance of people like her father who exercised crucially important judgements…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.150
Beatrice Webb operated_in
East End documented
document
“And this was occurring just at the time when her objective experience of East End life was encouraging her to question the subjectivity of the 'old philosopher'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.151
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Bacup documented
document
“In October she went to Bacup where her 'dear Lancashire folk' were not even as far along the road to emancipation from the conventional wisdom as she was.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.152
Beatrice Webb lived_in
East End of London documented
document
“In contrast to the men and women of the East End of London, they seemed to live a life of well-earned, well-paid work...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.152
Beatrice Webb met_with
Thomas Huxley documented
document
“In the spring and summer of 1887 Beatrice was enjoying an increasingly wide range of acquaintances - from Huxley, a 'broken down old lion',…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.152
Beatrice Webb met_with
Stephen Sim documented
document
“to Stephen Sim, the stevedores' secretary.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb met_with
Arthur Balfour documented
document
“From Arthur Balfour, saying 'cynical and clever things that are meant to be cleverer than they turn out to be',…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb met_with
Mr Hoffman documented
document
“to Mr Hoffman, foreman in a shoe factory, student of the sweating system and a Methodist preacher ever ready to denounce the wicked indifference of the rich.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Booth family documented
document
“She felt an increasing security and happiness in her friendship with the Booths, the Barnetts, Ella Pycroft, Maggie Harkness, Bella Fisher and Carry Darling.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Barnett Family documented
document
“She felt an increasing security and happiness in her friendship with the Booths, the Barnetts, Ella Pycroft, Maggie Harkness, Bella Fisher and Carry Darling.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Maggie Harkness documented
document
“She felt an increasing security and happiness in her friendship with the Booths, the Barnetts, Ella Pycroft, Maggie Harkness, Bella Fisher and Carry Darling.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Bella Fisher documented
document
“She felt an increasing security and happiness in her friendship with the Booths, the Barnetts, Ella Pycroft, Maggie Harkness, Bella Fisher and Carry Darling.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Carry Darling documented
document
“She felt an increasing security and happiness in her friendship with the Booths, the Barnetts, Ella Pycroft, Maggie Harkness, Bella Fisher and Carry Darling.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Brighton documented
document
“Before going to see him in Birmingham she spent a week in Brighton with Herbert Spencer, but her thoughts were elsewhere.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Beatrice Webb had_affair_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
document
“Again feeling over-rode dignity: she told him that she 'cared for him passionately'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.153
Joseph Chamberlain had_affair_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“The circumstances of my past life have made me solitary and reserved, but it is hard that I should lose one of the few friends whose just opinions I value and the sense of close regard and sympathy would be a strength and support to me.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.154
Joseph Chamberlain married
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“In the following year his engagement was announced to the daughter of the American Secretary of State for War.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.154
Auberon Herbert relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Thus, when she saw that the eccentric anarchist, Auberon Herbert, was considering a proposal of marriage, she asked herself: 'Did I laugh or did I shudder?'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.155
F. Y. Edgeworth relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“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 relationship_with
Charles Booth documented
document
“She recovered from the last disastrous meeting with Chamberlain by visiting the Booths. She had developed a close and intimate relation with Charlie, 'but without passion or the dawning of passion'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.155
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Mary Booth documented
document
“Mary tried to make up for it by signing her letters: 'Yours ever, with love and love again in good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over.'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.155
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Paul, Potter documented
document
“The firm of Paul, Potter and the work of Charles Booth…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.156
Beatrice Webb met_with
Ben Tillett documented
document
“In November she attended a dockers' meeting addressed by Ben Tillett.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.158
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
John Burnett documented
document
“She had become a friend of John Burnett, sometime secretary of the engineering union and subsequently Labour Correspondent to the Board of Trade.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.158
Beatrice Webb lived_in
56 Great Prescott Street documented
document
“In April she settled at 56 Great Prescott Street to begin life as a working woman.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.159
Beatrice Webb met_with
Select Committee of the House of Lords documented
document
“She appeared before the Committee on 11 May 1888.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.160
Earl of Dunraven met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“'How would you define the sweating system?' enquired the Earl of Dunraven from the Chair.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.160
Lord Sandhurst met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Lord Sandhurst remarked: 'We have had some very strong evidence on this Committee as to the exceptional poverty of the tailors and tailoresses; from what you have seen of them do you consider that they are a population in extremely miserabl…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.161
Lord Thring relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Lord Thring assured her that the Pall Mall Gazette was not admitted into his house and that the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the other members of the select committee 'thought that you gave most valuable evidence in a ladylike and unass…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.163
Charles Booth relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“Booth was particularly firm in advising her against drawing any further attention to the episode.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.163
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Lords Committee documented
document
“Yet while she maintained much of the 'tough-minded' tone of her testimony to the Lords Committee, Beatrice began to offer a rather fuller account of sweating.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.164
Beatrice Webb met_with
Arnold White reported
document
“In fact, the main weight of her article was directed against such anti-Semitic slanderers as Arnold White, who painted a picture of the Jews as 'destitute foreigners' living in conditions which resembled 'those of animals'.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.164
Beatrice Webb met_with
Jewish Board of Guardians documented
document
“But while Beatrice saw that 'Jewish charity does not tend towards the demoralisation of individual recipients', she did believe - and rightly - that the Jewish Board of Guardians fostered 'the artificial multiplication of small masters.'…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.165
Beatrice Webb met_with
Alfred Marshall documented
document
“She resisted the advice of Alfred Marshall and others to turn her attention to women's employment...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.167
Beatrice Webb met_with
William J. Burns documented
document
“She began the work in February 1889, after long talks with her most intimate working-class friends Burns, Benjamin Jones and J.J. Dent.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.167
Beatrice Webb met_with
Benjamin Jones documented
document
“She began the work in February 1889, after long talks with her most intimate working-class friends Burns, Benjamin Jones and J.J. Dent.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.167
Beatrice Webb met_with
J.J. Dent documented
document
“She began the work in February 1889, after long talks with her most intimate working-class friends Burns, Benjamin Jones and J.J. Dent.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.167
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Hebden Bridge documented
document
“At Hebden Bridge she stayed with the widow of an ironfounder...…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.167
Beatrice Webb met_with
J.T.W. Mitchell documented
document
“She had become well acquainted with the head of the immense Co-operative Wholesale Society, J.T.W. Mitchell, who lived in small lodgings in Rochdale on £150 a year.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.168
Beatrice Webb met_with
John Burns documented
document
“By the end of August she was becoming more and more excited by the success of John Burns and her old friend of two years back, Ben Tillett:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.168
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Dundee documented
document
“It was in the midst of the dockers' struggle that she went off to the Trades Union Congress at Dundee.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.169
Beatrice Webb met_with
Shipton documented
document
“This morning, while I was breakfasting Shipton ... joined me.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.169
Beatrice Webb met_with
Henry Broadhurst documented
document
“Beatrice took luncheon two days later with its secretary, the formidable Henry Broadhurst MP…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.170
Beatrice Webb met_with
Tom Mann documented
document
“in November she went to hear Tom Mann address a meeting of co-operators at Toynbee Hall.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.170
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Auberon Herbert documented
document
“Tom Mann impressed her, but only a month earlier she had projected collaboration with Auberon Herbert in writing an 'individualist' novel.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.171
Beatrice Webb met_with
Sidney Webb documented
document
“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
Bertrand Russell relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“I had a great liking and respect for her.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.173
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
document
“There were times - as in the matter of her evidence to the Lords Committee or at critical moments in her relations with Chamberlain - when she found in her conduct an 'irresponsibility' which resembled being occupied or possessed by someone…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.174
Richard Russell relationship_with
Beatrice Webb reported
document
“Yet while resisting an interpretation of Beatrice's personality which is cast within some ready-made and tidy scheme, it remains a fact that Russell must have been referring - in some sense - to her divided self.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.175
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Octavia Hill documented
document
“The fact that she had noticed the despotic disposition of Octavia Hill did not prevent her from displaying, from time to time, a similar trait herself.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.176
Beatrice Webb family_of
Margaret Potter documented
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“As she indicated, it was also a crucial question for her sister Margaret as well as for some of her most influential teachers such as Frederic Harrison.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.178
Beatrice Webb worked_for
Lords Committee on the Sweating System documented
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“(This conviction was not prominently displayed in Miss Potter's testimony to the Lords Committee on the Sweating System.)…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.181
Beatrice Webb married
Sidney Webb documented
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“Marriage is a partnership. It is the ultimate committee.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.184
Sidney Webb relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“They were drawn together by a common culture; a similar cast of mind; closely shared political and social ideals; and the close fit between their different attainments, skills, experiences and goals.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.186
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Sidney Webb documented
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“Sidney and Beatrice complemented each other.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.189
Sidney Webb met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“He was in love with her from that first meeting which had been arranged by Margaret Harkness early in January 1890.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.191
Margaret Hobhouse family_of
Beatrice Webb documented
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“However, Beatrice's favourite sister, Margaret Hobhouse, was adamant.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.190
Beatrice Webb born_in
Standish House documented
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“Beatrice Potter's birthplace, Standish House, near Gloucester…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.193
Sidney Webb met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“She suggested that he should accompany Ella Pycroft and herself to the co-operative conference which was to be held in Glasgow at the end of May 1890.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.197
Beatrice Webb moved_to
London documented
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“On returning to London Beatrice too spent a sleepless night…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.198
Beatrice Webb lived_in
London documented
document
“She returned to London in July:…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.200
Graham Wallas met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Wallas visited her while Sidney was away in Europe.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
George Bernard Shaw met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
document
“She had less success with Shaw.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
Beatrice Webb moved_to
Yorkshire documented
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“The concordat restored, she went off to Yorkshire to attend the Economic Section of the British Association.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
Beatrice Webb lived_in
Midland Hotel documented
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“She and Sidney stayed in the Midland Hotel, Leeds.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
Beatrice Webb met_with
Llewellyn Smith documented
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“They travelled back from Bradford together along with Llewellyn Smith.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.204
Charles Booth relationship_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“Since Booth was one of Beatrice's closest and most respected friends, he was desperately anxious to stand well with him.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.205
Richard Haldane met_with
Beatrice Webb documented
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“At the end of November Haldane came to see her to discuss the possibility of an alliance between the progressive Liberals and the Fabian socialists.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.205
Beatrice Webb relationship_with
Joseph Chamberlain documented
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“And what a speculation! She became more than ever decided that personal passion had burned itself out and that what little might remain haunted her memories of Joseph Chamberlain.…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.205
Beatrice Webb member_of
Fabian Society documented
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“Beatrice, on his insistence, sent her subscription to the Fabian Society…”
source: book — The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905 · p.208
Mentions (26)
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that funded the Milner Group and the Webbs, Beatrice and whatever her husband's name was, Webb, they basically created this in the early, late 1800s, early 1900s, this philosophical approach that we're gonna march gradually towards one worl…
▶ 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…
▶ 9:55
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…
▶ 10:22
And the Fabians would then go on to found the Labour Party in England, which is currently in power. And they have their prime minister is a Fabian. Yes. It's another really good one called The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain by 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…
▶ 56:44
Okay. I may have to title this episode Global Homo now. And just a couple of words, because we could spend an entire show on Beatrice Webb, but together, Sidney and Beatrice founded the London School of Economics. That's where it came from.…
▶ 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 …
▶ 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…
▶ 32:10
the the things that um i kind of dug into a little bit that it's just flat out um government takeover of everything i think we switched over to his lovely wife beatrice um are you going to talk about the coefficients club under beatrice uh …
▶ 34:20
So Beatrice, lovely Beatrice, she was born in 1858 and lived to be the ripe old age of 1943. Her birth name was Beatrice Porter. Of course, she's the co-founder of the Fabians. She's known as a researcher, sociologist, feminist, social refo…
▶ 37:10
Taking taxing us to pay for everyone else. Yes. So I also want to say something about her family. She came from a very wealthy family as well. It's just a common theme throughout this entire thing. And she was left with a large inheritance …
▶ 38:11
They got a lot of free time on their hands and they think they're gods. Okay, where were we on Beatrice? Okay, so she also co-found the London School of Economics. She co-found something called the New Statesman, which the colonel just ment…
▶ 38:43
They think we're overpopulated. They want the state to be the parent. How many kids did she have? Zero. Yeah, they had zero kids. Yeah. She even made the statement that she didn't need to have kids because she viewed all of the people that …
▶ 39:16
Well, but these are the people that were the very supportive of the unions and co-opted unions. And then you have Weingarten over here basically telling us as a childless. She's the current day Beatrice Webb. She is. She has no kids. And sh…
▶ 39:49
Yeah, she is Beatrice Webb, to be honest with you. It's a good comparison. So we talked about her diaries. Her diaries got published, and a lot of the inside information that all these books were written on come from these diaries. Not all …
▶ 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…
▶ 41:27
And they spent about two months there. And they do a follow-up trip, I think. But they would write about it in a book called Soviet Communism, A New Civilization with a Question Mark, was the name of the book. You look at more recent editio…
▶ 42:00
Of course, that was widely criticized in Western press. One quote I found was from a British historian by the name of A.J.P. Taylor. He writes, this is the most preposterous book ever written about Russia. It was a puff piece. You want to a…
▶ 42:33
And the factory acts, the breakup of the poor law, decay of capitalist civilization. That's a very interesting one. And we talk often about their infiltration of the British government, but they were very focused on local governments too. S…
▶ 44:27
Hope that helps. Yeah. She also pioneered something called the Minority Report, very focused on that division and fault line kind of philosophy. She also was instrumental in creating, quote unquote, research methods, because what they like …
▶ 1:06:23
And he would grow away from gradualism at this point and favored dictatorial methods. He said this gradualism is taking too long. We need a stronger hand to force this stuff through. So that's why he celebrates Mussolini. In fact, Beatrice …
▶ 1:10:57
we've got the potter and chamberlain railroad industry connections around beatrice webb that's where she got her fortune got the psychical research from podmore and ellis the theosophical and co-masonic networks of besant the coefficients d…
▶ 27:29
into this type of public economics which was one of their initial goals is permeating the government at all levels as well as the political parties blah blah blah um yeah baby and the next one on my list feeds right into that exactly we jus…
▶ 1:02:32
Well, he had collaborated on 1909 on something called the Poor Laws Minority Report with none other than Fabian founder Beatrice Webb. So here is 33 years later, implementing the same ideas the Fabians were talking about all the way back in…