Abstract
In March 1898, after the publication of Industrial Democracy and the exertions over London University and the LSE, Beatrice and Sidney Webb decided to take a year’s sabbatical in order to visit America, Australia and New Zealand. Delighted with the victory of the Progressives in the March elections, the Webbs felt that they would ‘close this portion of our life with considerable complacency and start on our long journey with a light heart’ (March 1898). There was, Beatrice felt, much to be thankful for:
Our book has been extraordinarily well received, our party has recovered a good working majority on the LCC; the London School of Economics is growing silently though surely into a centre of collectivist-tempered research and establishing itself as the English School of Economics and Political Sciences.
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© 1984 Lisanne Radice
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Radice, L. (1984). 1898 Busman’s Holiday. In: Beatrice and Sidney Webb. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17472-0_7
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