Beatrice Webb
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Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, feminist, socialist thinker and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played
Portrait of Webb, 1894
Sidney (left, seated) and Beatrice Webb (second right, seated) with Beatrice's sister Margaret Hobhouse, née Potter, (third left, seated) and Margaret's family; circa 1900
Beatrice and Sidney Webb working together in 1895
Beatrice and Sidney Webb during their trip to the Soviet Union in 1932
Fabian Society
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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, rathe
Beatrice Webb
…feminist, socialist thinker and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society. Additionally, she authored several popular books, with her most notable being The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain and Industrial Democracy…
The Fabian Society was named after "Fabius the Delayer" at the suggestion of Frank Podmore (above)
Blue plaque at 17 Osnaburgh St, where the Society was founded in 1884
Nigerian Fabian Society, 1944.