Papers of Beatrice and Sidney Webb, including Beatrice Webb's diaries and correspondence 1835-[1985]

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Papers of Beatrice and Sidney Webb, including Beatrice Webb's diaries and correspondence 1835-[1985]

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb97-passfield

126 boxes, 13 volumes and outsize material

eng,

British library of political and economic science

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Norman MacKenzie was a student at LSE, 1939-1943. He became the Assistant Editor of the New Statesman , 1943-1962, and then the Director of the School of Education at the University of Sussex in 1962. MacKenzie edited The letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Cambridge University Press, 1978), and went on to edit (with Jeanne MacKenzie) The diaries of Beatrice Webb (Virago, London, 1982-5). The letters were acquired from a variety of sources, mostly indicated in the collection. From t...

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Beatrice and Sidney Webb pooled their respective talents into writing joint works on economic and social issues. They spent 25 years researching and writing their nine-volume English Local Government from the Reformation to the Municipal Corporations Act (Longmans and Co, 1906-1929, and produced other relevant works on the poor law and social relief. For a biographical history of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, see the description for the Passfield personal papers (Ref: Passfield). From th...

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Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1947, 1st Baron Passfield, social reformer and historian

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Working Men's College (London)

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Robson, William A. (William Alexander), 1895-1980

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Haldane, R. B. Haldane (Richard Burdon Haldane), Viscount, 1856-1928

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Fabian Society, New Fabian Research Bureau

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