Timeline of Fabianism
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Big picture
| 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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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "History". web.archive.org. 7 December 2006. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ↑ "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.
