'New Statesman': Portrait of a Political Weekly 1913-1931Adrian Smith This volume reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party. The author compares its first journalists with later generations of editors and writers and rediscovers the early, and lasting, importance of the British Left's best-known magazine. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Sidney and Beatrice Webb by 1912 | 10 |
Founding a new radical weekly | 34 |
4 The New Statesman in Liberal England | 49 |
The New Statesman 191418 | 69 |
6 Editor or spy? Clifford Sharp and Bolshevik Russia | 116 |
7 Labour or Liberal? The New Statesman and the struggle for power 191824 | 135 |
The New Statesman as a literary review | 178 |
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