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The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
Pages in category "Members of the Fabian Society" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of Fabian Tracts of The Fabian Society published up to the end of 1915. It is extracted from Edward R. Pease's history of the society published in 1916. Pease was a founding member of the society. A great number of additional tracts and other series of Fabian books have since been published.
The Fabian Society's basis was to promote the transfer of land and capital to the State, equality of citizenship of men and women, and having public authority instead of private for the education and support of children. [13] The resolutions of the Society were written by Frederick Keddell, the first secretary of the Fabian Society. [13]
The Fabian Window is a stained-glass window depicting the founders of the Fabian Society, [1] designed by George Bernard Shaw. The window was stolen from Beatrice Webb House in Dorking in 1978 and reappeared at Sotheby's in 2005.
The Young Fabians is the under age 31 section of the Fabian Society, [1] a socialist society in the United Kingdom that is affiliated with the Labour Party (UK).The Young Fabians operate as a membership-driven think tank that organises policy debates, research projects, publications, conferences, and international delegations.
Bournemouth Fabian Society has been in existence since 1892 and as such, is one of the oldest local societies. Beatrice Webb was a key early contributor, having been educated there, and Rupert Brooke. The society has come and gone, with peaks in 1924 (during the first Labour Government) and in World War Two. [3]
He was an early member of the Fabian Society in 1884, joining, like George Bernard Shaw, three months after its inception. Along with his wife Beatrice Webb and with Annie Besant , Graham Wallas , Edward R. Pease , Hubert Bland and Sydney Olivier , Shaw and Webb turned the Fabian Society into the pre-eminent politico-intellectual society in ...