New Statesman Archive 1944-1988

Martin, Kingsley, 1897-1969

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Basil Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) was born in Hereford in 1897 and schooled in the city, in South Africa and at Millfield. After serving in France (1917-18), he spent three years (1919-22) at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he developed his early interest in socialism. Fellowships at Princeton University (1922-23) and at Magdalene College (1924-25) allowed him to pursue research published in 1924 as The Triumph of Lord Palmerston, a study of Press manipulation of public opinion to make an un...

New Statesman, magazine

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New Statesman magazine, 1913-

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Launched in 1913 as a radical organ of the left, the New Statesman 's origins can be traced back to the Fabian Society. It was some of the more prominent Fabians, Sidney Webb and George Bernard Shaw among them, who first conceived the idea of a weekly magazine, believing it the best means of propagating their values among the educated classes. From its inception, the New Statesman was editorially committed to analysis of issues of public and international interest and the promotion of rational v...