The Diary of Beatrice Webb
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
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Author : Beatrice Potter Webb
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2002-12
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781860498954
These diaries are a unique record of the times Beatrice Webb and her husband Sidney Webb lived in. They were at the centre of British intellectual and political life for nearly seventy years and this diary glitters with the great names of Edwardian society: Rosebery and Asquith, Churchill and Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell and H.G. Wells, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Bernard Shaw. It is also a remarkable revelation of the private face of one of the greatest British women of the past century. Rich in insights and anecdotes about the people and politics of late Victorian and early modern Britain: Beatrice was the mistress of salon politics. She devoted herself to the causes she and Sidney had at heart - the founding of the London School of Economics, trade unionism, local government, the war against poverty, and their books. The establishment of the Fabian Research Bureau in 1912 and the launching of the New Stateman were both her initiatives. The diary is also, finally, one of the most moving records of old age and dying published in the English language.
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1986-11-03
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780860688457
Author : Beatrice Potter Webb
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780674202870
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher : London : Virago
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Gabriel Gorodetsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0300217331
The terror and purges of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary, never before published in English, grippingly documents Britain’s drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact, Churchill’s rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front. Maisky was distinguished by his great sociability and access to the key players in British public life. Among his range of regular contacts were politicians (including Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, and Halifax), press barons (Beaverbrook), ambassadors (Joseph Kennedy), intellectuals (Keynes, Sidney and Beatrice Webb), writers (George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells), and indeed royalty. His diary further reveals the role personal rivalries within the Kremlin played in the formulation of Soviet policy at the time. Scrupulously edited and checked against a vast range of Russian and Western archival evidence, this extraordinary narrative diary offers a fascinating revision of the events surrounding the Second World War.
Author : Beatrice Webb
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :