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| 1946-47 || || Bosworth Monck serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1946-47 || || Bosworth Monck serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1946-48 Harold Laski
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| 1947-49 || || Andrew Filson serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1947-49 || || Andrew Filson serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1948-50 G.D.H Cole
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| 1948-50 || || G.D.H Cole
 
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| 1949-53 || || Donald Chapman serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1949-53 || || Donald Chapman serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1950-53 John Parker
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| 1950-53 || || John Parker
 
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| 1953-54 Austen Albu
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| 1953-54 || || Austen Albu
 
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| 1953-60 || || William Rodgers serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1953-60 || || William Rodgers serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1954-55 Harold Wilson
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| 1954-55 || || Harold Wilson
 
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| 1956-56 Margaret Cole
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| 1956-56 || || Margaret Cole
 
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| 1956-57 Arthur Skeffington
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| 1956-57 || || Arthur Skeffington
 
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| 1957-58 Roy Jenkins
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| 1957-58 || || Roy Jenkins
 
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| 1958-59 Eirene White
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| 1958-59 || || Eirene White
 
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| 1959-60 H.D. Hughes
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| 1959-60 || || H.D. Hughes
 
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| 1960-61 Lord Faringdon
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| 1960-61 || || Lord Faringdon
 
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| 1960-63 || || Shirley Williams serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1960-63 || || Shirley Williams serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1961-62 C.A.R. Crosland
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| 1961-62 || || C.A.R. Crosland
 
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| 1962-63 Mary Stewart
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| 1962-63 || || Mary Stewart
 
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| 1963-64 Brian Abel-Smith
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| 1963-64 || || Brian Abel-Smith
 
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| 1964-65 Anthony Wedgwood Benn
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| 1964-65 || || Anthony Wedgwood Benn
 
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| 1964-76 || || Tom Ponsonby serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1964-76 || || Tom Ponsonby serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1965-66 Peter Townsend
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| 1965-66 || || Peter Townsend
 
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| 1966-67 William Rodgers
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| 1966-67 || || William Rodgers
 
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| 1967-68 || || Arthur Blenkinsop
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| 1968-69 || || PeterShore
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| 1969-70 || || Thomas Balogh
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| 1970-71 || || Jeremy Bray
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| 1971-72 || || Peter Hall
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| 1972-73 || || Anthony Lester
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| 1973-74 || || Frank Judd
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| 1974-75 || || Nicholas Bosanquet
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| 1975-76 || || Colin Crouch
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| 1976-77 || || Giles Radice
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| 1976-82 || || Dianne Hayter serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1976-82 || || Dianne Hayter serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1977-78 || || Dick Leonard
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| 1978-79 || || Philip Whitehead
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| 1979-80 || || Peter Archer
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| 1980-81 || || Shirley Williams
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| 1981 Apr || || David Lipsey
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| 1982 David Lipsey
 
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| 1982-85 || || [[w:Ian Martin (UN official)|Ian Martin]] serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1982-85 || || [[w:Ian Martin (UN official)|Ian Martin]] serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1983 Stella Meldram
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| 1984 Jenny Jeger
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| 1984-85 || || Tessa Blackstone
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| 1985-86 || || Andrew McIntosh
 
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| 1985-89 || || John Willman serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1985-89 || || John Willman serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1986-87 || || Austin Mitchell
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| 1987-88 || || Nick Butler
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| 1988-89 || || Bryan Gould
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| 1989-90 || || David Bean
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| 1990-91 || || Robin Cook
 
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| 1990-1996 || || Simon Crine serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1990-1996 || || Simon Crine serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1991-92 || || Oonagh McDonald
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| 1992-93 || || Dianne Hayter
 
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| 1993-94 || || Glenys Thornton (Acting) serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1993-94 || || Glenys Thornton (Acting) serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1993-94 || || Ben Pimlott
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| 1994-95 || || Alf Dubs
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| 1995-96 || || Maggie Rice
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| 1996-97 || || Chris Smith
 
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| 1996-97 || || Stephen Twigg serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1996-97 || || Stephen Twigg serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 1997-98 || || Margaret Hodge
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| 1998-99 || || Tony Wright
 
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| 1997-2003 || || Michael Jacobs serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 1997-2003 || || Michael Jacobs serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
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| 1997 || || After {{w|Tony Blair}}’s victory, over 200 Fabians sit in the House of Commons, including many of the cabinet. The society acts as a supportive yet critical friend to the government, offering advice and guidance on policy development without being afraid to point out any shortcomings.<ref name="our history"/>
 
| 1997 || || After {{w|Tony Blair}}’s victory, over 200 Fabians sit in the House of Commons, including many of the cabinet. The society acts as a supportive yet critical friend to the government, offering advice and guidance on policy development without being afraid to point out any shortcomings.<ref name="our history"/>
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| 1999-2000 || || Calum McDonald
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| 2000-01 || || Gordon Marsden
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| 2001-02 || || Denis MacShane
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| 2002-03 || || Paul Richards
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| 2003-04 || || Stephen Twigg
 
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| 2003-11 || || Sunder Katwala serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
 
| 2003-11 || || Sunder Katwala serves as General Secretary of the {{w|Fabian Society}}.
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| 2004-05 || || Eric Joyce
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| 2005-06 || || Seema Malhotra
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| 2006-07 || || Ed Balls
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| 2007-08 || || Anne Campbell
 
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| 2008 (February 14) || Criticism || In an article published in ''{{w|The Guardian}}'' (following the apology offered by Australian Prime Minister {{w|Kevin Rudd}} to the "{{w|stolen generations}}"), {{w|Geoffrey Robertson}} criticizes Fabian socialists for providing the intellectual justification for the eugenics policy that led to the stolen generations scandal.<ref>{{cite news |title=We should say sorry, too|author=Geoffrey Robertson|date=13 February 2008|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/14/australia|location=London|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Eugenics, Mental Deficiency and Fabian Socialism between the Wars|author=L.J. Ray|journal=Oxford Review of Education|volume=9|issue=3|year=1983|doi=10.1080/0305498830090305 |pages=213–22}}</ref>  
 
| 2008 (February 14) || Criticism || In an article published in ''{{w|The Guardian}}'' (following the apology offered by Australian Prime Minister {{w|Kevin Rudd}} to the "{{w|stolen generations}}"), {{w|Geoffrey Robertson}} criticizes Fabian socialists for providing the intellectual justification for the eugenics policy that led to the stolen generations scandal.<ref>{{cite news |title=We should say sorry, too|author=Geoffrey Robertson|date=13 February 2008|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/14/australia|location=London|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Eugenics, Mental Deficiency and Fabian Socialism between the Wars|author=L.J. Ray|journal=Oxford Review of Education|volume=9|issue=3|year=1983|doi=10.1080/0305498830090305 |pages=213–22}}</ref>  
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| 2008-10 || || Sadiq Khan
 
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| 2009 || || Making a speech in the {{w|United States}}, the [[w:Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|British MP]] {{w|George Galloway}} denounced the Fabian Society for its failure to support the [[w:1916 Easter rising|uprising of Easter 1916]] in {{w|Dublin}} during which an {{w|Irish Republic}} was proclaimed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkJYKfCDhA|title=George Galloway Easter Rising 1916|last=pas1888|date=29 December 2009|via=YouTube}}</ref>
 
| 2009 || || Making a speech in the {{w|United States}}, the [[w:Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|British MP]] {{w|George Galloway}} denounced the Fabian Society for its failure to support the [[w:1916 Easter rising|uprising of Easter 1916]] in {{w|Dublin}} during which an {{w|Irish Republic}} was proclaimed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkJYKfCDhA|title=George Galloway Easter Rising 1916|last=pas1888|date=29 December 2009|via=YouTube}}</ref>
 
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| 2010 || || The Fabian Society enters a new era, after the fall of the Labour government and the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.<ref name="our history"/>
 
| 2010 || || The Fabian Society enters a new era, after the fall of the Labour government and the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.<ref name="our history"/>
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| 2010-12 || || Suresh Pushpananthan
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| 2012-14 || || Jessica Asato
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| 2014-16 || || Seema Malhotra
 
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| 2015 || || The role of the Fabian Society as a pluralist, non-factional forum within the Labour movement comes to the fore after the 2015 election and the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.<ref name="our history"/>   
 
| 2015 || || The role of the Fabian Society as a pluralist, non-factional forum within the Labour movement comes to the fore after the 2015 election and the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.<ref name="our history"/>   
 
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| 2016 || || As of date, the Fabian Society has about 7,000 members.<ref name=annualrep-2016>{{cite report |url=http://www.fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fabian-Society-annual-report-2016.pdf |title=Annual Report 2016 |publisher=Fabian Society |year=2016 |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || || As of date, the Fabian Society has about 7,000 members.<ref name=annualrep-2016>{{cite report |url=http://www.fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fabian-Society-annual-report-2016.pdf |title=Annual Report 2016 |publisher=Fabian Society |year=2016 |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
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| 2016-18 || || Kate Green
 
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| 2018 || Recognition || The Fabian Society is rated as "broadly transparent" in its funding by {{w|Transparify}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.transparify.org/blog/2018/12/17/yu6z844z5sf3vnhvqkegzeefuzv12o|title=Round-Up of Transparify 2018 Ratings|website=Transparify|language=en-US|access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
 
| 2018 || Recognition || The Fabian Society is rated as "broadly transparent" in its funding by {{w|Transparify}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.transparify.org/blog/2018/12/17/yu6z844z5sf3vnhvqkegzeefuzv12o|title=Round-Up of Transparify 2018 Ratings|website=Transparify|language=en-US|access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
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| 2018-20 || || Ivana Bartoletti
 
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| 2019 (June) || || The Fabian Society reaches 7,136 individual members.<ref name=annualrep-2019>{{cite report |url=https://fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Updated-Annual-report-2018-19-06.11.2019-WEBFINAL.pdf |title=Annual Report 2019 |publisher=Fabian Society |year=2019 |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
 
| 2019 (June) || || The Fabian Society reaches 7,136 individual members.<ref name=annualrep-2019>{{cite report |url=https://fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Updated-Annual-report-2018-19-06.11.2019-WEBFINAL.pdf |title=Annual Report 2019 |publisher=Fabian Society |year=2019 |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
 
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| 2019 || Recognition || The Fabian Society is given an A grade for funding transparency by {{w|Who Funds You?}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whofundsyou.org/org/fabian-society|title=Fabian Society {{!}} Who Funds You?|website=whofundsyou.org|access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
 
| 2019 || Recognition || The Fabian Society is given an A grade for funding transparency by {{w|Who Funds You?}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whofundsyou.org/org/fabian-society|title=Fabian Society {{!}} Who Funds You?|website=whofundsyou.org|access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>
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| 2020- || || Martin Edobor
 
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| 2020 || || The Fabian Society’s membership increases to an all time high of over 8,000, including 16 members of the shadow cabinet, and the society goes as close to the heart of Labour policy thinking as at any time in its history.<ref name="our history"/>   
 
| 2020 || || The Fabian Society’s membership increases to an all time high of over 8,000, including 16 members of the shadow cabinet, and the society goes as close to the heart of Labour policy thinking as at any time in its history.<ref name="our history"/>   

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Time period Development summary More details
1880s This decade sees an upsurge in socialist activity in Britain, with the Fabian Society being at the heart of much of it.[1]
1990s The society becomes a major force in the modernization of the Labour party, building on its work from the 1980s and developing many of the ideas that would come to characterise New Labour.

Full timeline

Year Event type Details
1884 (January 4) The Fabian Society is formed.[1]
1889 The Fabian Essays is published, containing essays by George Bernard Shaw, Graham Walls, Sidney Webb, Sydney Olivier and Annie Besant.[1]
1891–1913 Edward R. Pease serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1895 The London School of Economics is founded by The Fabian Society.
1906 The Fabians lobby for the introduction of a minimum wage, for the creation of a universal health care system in 1911 and for the abolition of hereditary peerages.[2]
1913–1920 William Sanders serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1915–1919 Edward R. Pease serves as Acting General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1920–1939 Frank Wallace Galton serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1931 The independent New Fabian Research Bureau is created as the brainchild of G. D. H. Cole, setting the scene for much of the work of the 1945 Labour government before merging into the main society in 1938.[1]
1939 By this time, there are 6 local Fabian societies in the United Kingdom.[1]
1939–1945 John Parker serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1939-46 G.D.H. Cole
1940 (October) The Fabian Society establishes the Fabian Colonial Bureau to facilitate research and debate British colonial policy.[3]
1945 229 members of the Fabian Society are elected to Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1945 general election.[1]
1945 By this time, there are 120 local Fabian societies accross the United Kingdom.[1]
1946-47 Bosworth Monck serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1946-48 Harold Laski
1947-49 Andrew Filson serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1948-50 G.D.H Cole
1949-53 Donald Chapman serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1950-53 John Parker
1953-54 Austen Albu
1953-60 William Rodgers serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1954-55 Harold Wilson
1956-56 Margaret Cole
1956-57 Arthur Skeffington
1957-58 Roy Jenkins
1958-59 Eirene White
1959-60 H.D. Hughes
1960-61 Lord Faringdon
1960-63 Shirley Williams serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1961-62 C.A.R. Crosland
1962-63 Mary Stewart
1963-64 Brian Abel-Smith
1964-65 Anthony Wedgwood Benn
1964-76 Tom Ponsonby serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1965-66 Peter Townsend
1966-67 William Rodgers
1967-68 Arthur Blenkinsop
1968-69 PeterShore
1969-70 Thomas Balogh
1970-71 Jeremy Bray
1971-72 Peter Hall
1972-73 Anthony Lester
1973-74 Frank Judd
1974-75 Nicholas Bosanquet
1975-76 Colin Crouch
1976-77 Giles Radice
1976-82 Dianne Hayter serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1977-78 Dick Leonard
1978-79 Philip Whitehead
1979-80 Peter Archer
1980-81 Shirley Williams
1981 Apr David Lipsey
1982 David Lipsey
1982-85 Ian Martin serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1983 Stella Meldram
1984 Jenny Jeger
1984-85 Tessa Blackstone
1985-86 Andrew McIntosh
1985-89 John Willman serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1986-87 Austin Mitchell
1987-88 Nick Butler
1988-89 Bryan Gould
1989-90 David Bean
1990-91 Robin Cook
1990-1996 Simon Crine serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1991-92 Oonagh McDonald
1992-93 Dianne Hayter
1993-94 Glenys Thornton (Acting) serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1993-94 Ben Pimlott
1994-95 Alf Dubs
1995-96 Maggie Rice
1996-97 Chris Smith
1996-97 Stephen Twigg serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1997-98 Margaret Hodge
1998-99 Tony Wright
1997-2003 Michael Jacobs serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
1997 After Tony Blair’s victory, over 200 Fabians sit in the House of Commons, including many of the cabinet. The society acts as a supportive yet critical friend to the government, offering advice and guidance on policy development without being afraid to point out any shortcomings.[1]
1999-2000 Calum McDonald
2000-01 Gordon Marsden
2001-02 Denis MacShane
2002-03 Paul Richards
2003-04 Stephen Twigg
2003-11 Sunder Katwala serves as General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
2004-05 Eric Joyce
2005-06 Seema Malhotra
2006-07 Ed Balls
2007-08 Anne Campbell
2008 (February 14) Criticism In an article published in The Guardian (following the apology offered by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the "stolen generations"), Geoffrey Robertson criticizes Fabian socialists for providing the intellectual justification for the eugenics policy that led to the stolen generations scandal.[4][5]
2008-10 Sadiq Khan
2009 Making a speech in the United States, the British MP George Galloway denounced the Fabian Society for its failure to support the uprising of Easter 1916 in Dublin during which an Irish Republic was proclaimed.[6]
2010 The Fabian Society enters a new era, after the fall of the Labour government and the election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.[1]
2010-12 Suresh Pushpananthan
2012-14 Jessica Asato
2014-16 Seema Malhotra
2015 The role of the Fabian Society as a pluralist, non-factional forum within the Labour movement comes to the fore after the 2015 election and the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.[1]
2016 As of date, the Fabian Society has about 7,000 members.[7]
2016-18 Kate Green
2018 Recognition The Fabian Society is rated as "broadly transparent" in its funding by Transparify.[8]
2018-20 Ivana Bartoletti
2019 (June) The Fabian Society reaches 7,136 individual members.[9]
2019 Recognition The Fabian Society is given an A grade for funding transparency by Who Funds You?.[10]
2020- Martin Edobor
2020 The Fabian Society’s membership increases to an all time high of over 8,000, including 16 members of the shadow cabinet, and the society goes as close to the heart of Labour policy thinking as at any time in its history.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 "Our History". Fabians. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  2. ↑ "History". web.archive.org. 7 December 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  3. ↑ "Collection: Papers of the Fabian Colonial Bureau | Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts". archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  4. ↑ Geoffrey Robertson (13 February 2008). "We should say sorry, too". The Guardian. London. 
  5. ↑ L.J. Ray (1983). "Eugenics, Mental Deficiency and Fabian Socialism between the Wars". Oxford Review of Education. 9 (3): 213–22. doi:10.1080/0305498830090305. 
  6. ↑ pas1888 (29 December 2009). "George Galloway Easter Rising 1916" – via YouTube. 
  7. ↑ Annual Report 2016 (PDF) (Report). Fabian Society. 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  8. ↑ "Round-Up of Transparify 2018 Ratings". Transparify. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  9. ↑ Annual Report 2019 (PDF) (Report). Fabian Society. 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
  10. ↑ "Fabian Society | Who Funds You?". whofundsyou.org. Retrieved 31 August 2022. 
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