The Library has made hundreds of pamphlets and minute books from the Fabian Society available on its Digital Library|. The archive, featuring material from 1884 to 1997 with contributions from prominent political figures such as Clement Attlee, Tony Benn and Gordon Brown, is now freely available to view online|.
The Fabian Society archive project honours an important part of LSE’s heritage; co-founders of LSE Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw, were also early and influential members of the Fabian Society.
The archive includes George Bernard Shaw's annotated minutes| from a May 1884 meeting of the Fabians, his first recorded contribution to the group. It also features a tract from 1912 which shows the Fabian’s activities as a campaigning organisation: Family Life on a Pound a Week| by Maud Pember Reeves considers whether or not a typical family could survive on a low income. There is also 1995 pamphlet written by Tony Blair: Let us Face the Future Together| reviews the achievements of the 1945 Labour government and considers how New Labour was facing similar challenges as it approached the 1997 general election.