Timeline of Fabianism
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| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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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.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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| Year | Event type | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1884 (January 4) | The Fabian Society is formed. | |
| 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.[1] | |
| 1940 (October) | The Fabian Society establishes the Fabian Colonial Bureau to facilitate research and debate British colonial policy.[2] | |
| 1945 | 229 members of the Fabian Society are elected to Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1945 general election.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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| 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.[3][4] |
| 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.[5] | |
| 2016 | As of date, the Fabian Society has about 7,000 members.[6] | |
| 2018 | Recognition | The Fabian Society is rated as "broadly transparent" in its funding by Transparify.[7] |
| 2019 (June) | The Fabian Society reaches 7,136 individual members.[8] | |
| 2019 | Recognition | The Fabian Society is given an A grade for funding transparency by Who Funds You?.[9] |
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- ↑ "Collection: Papers of the Fabian Colonial Bureau | Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts". archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Geoffrey Robertson (13 February 2008). "We should say sorry, too". The Guardian. London.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ pas1888 (29 December 2009). "George Galloway Easter Rising 1916" – via YouTube.
- ↑ Annual Report 2016 (PDF) (Report). Fabian Society. 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Round-Up of Transparify 2018 Ratings". Transparify. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ Annual Report 2019 (PDF) (Report). Fabian Society. 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "Fabian Society | Who Funds You?". whofundsyou.org. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
