Timeline of Fabianism

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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.

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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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
2018 Recognition The Fabian Society is rated as "broadly transparent" in its funding by Transparify.[8]
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 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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  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.