Fabian Tracts: 1940s-50s

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Tract Title Author Year
249 Evacuation: failure or reform| F Le Gros Clark and Richard W Toms 1940
250 Food in wartime| Charles Smith 1940
251 Nutrition in war| Sir John Boyd Orr 1940
252 Labour's next step|: a wartime strategy   1940
253 War effort and industrial injuries| Hermann Levy (and foreword by Margaret Cole) 1940
254 Vansittart's gift for Goebbels|: a German exile's answer to black record Heinrich Fraenkel 1941
255 Nursery education| B Stross 1941
256 A word on the future to British socialists|   1942
257 The raw material controls| G D N Worswick [1942]
258 The Fabian Society past and present| G D H Cole 1942
259 Your coal and you| H Norman Smith [1943]
260 Small savings|   1943
261 Dumbarton Oaks|: a Fabian commentary   1944
262 The future of Germany| Anne Whyte 1947
263 Borough and Urban District Councils| (revised) Based on a Fabian tract by C R Attlee (revised by A E Lauder) 1951
264   UNAVAILABLE  
265   UNAVAILABLE  
266   UNAVAILABLE  
267   UNAVAILABLE  
268 More socialisation - or less? |(Challenge series no.1) Charles Lang and Donald Chapman 1948
269 Socialism and farming| (Challenge series no.2) F W Bateson 1948
270 Wages policy?| (Challenge series no.3) T E M McKitterick 1949
271 Workers' control?| (Challenge series no.4, revised) Eirene White 1951
272 Wholesaling and retailing| (Challenge series no.5) Henry Smith 1949
273 Labour's second term|: a comment on the draft, "Labour believes in Britain" G D H Cole 1949
274 Next steps in education| (Challenge series no.6) Joan Thompson 1949
275 Holidays and the state| (Challenge series no.7) Donald Chapman 1949
276 Industrial management- the socialist way| L Gossman 1949
277 Consultation or joint management?|: a contribution to the discussion of industrial democracy J M Chalmers, Ian Mikardo and G D H Cole 1949
278   UNAVAILABLE  
279 Whither local government?| Peter Self 1950
280 Europe's first parliament|: reflections on the Strasbourg Assembly, 1949 Seymour Cocks, R W G Mackay and Maurice Edelman 1950
281 A policy for wages| Allan Flanders 1950
282 Democratic values| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Whither socialism? - values in a changing civilisation", 13 October 1950) Aneurin Bevan (introduction by Margaret Cole) 1951
283 Socialism and the study of man| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Whither socialism? - values in a changing civilisation", 20 October 1950) Austen Albu 1951
284 Does socialism need religion?| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Whither socialism? - values in a changing civilisation", 27 October 1950) Rev John Groser 1951
285 Lessons of science| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Whither socialism? -values in a changing civilisation", 3 November 1950) Jacob Bronowski 1951
286 Socialist values in a changing civilisation| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Whither socialism? - values in a changing civilisation", 17 November 1950) R H S Crossman 1951
287 Socialist foreign policy| R H S Crossman and Kenneth Younger 1951
288 Rearmament - how far?| John Freeman and Denis Healey 1951
289 Conditions of British foreign policy| T E M McKitterick 1951
290 Labour's task| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Is this socialism?", 30 October 1951) John Strachey 1951
291 Socialism and the welfare state| (Fabian Autumn Lecture series, "Is this socialism?", 6 November 1951) Kingsley Martin 1952
292 The German problem| Kenneth Younger 1952
293 Policy for the sterling area| Harvey Cole and Michael Shanks 1953
294 German re-armament|: for and against Kenneth Younger and Frank Beswick 1954
295   UNAVAILABLE  
296 Policy and weapons in the nuclear age| Michael Stewart 1955
297 Beatrice and Sidney Webb| Margaret Cole (preface by C R Attlee) 1955
298 Socialism and the new despotism| R H S Crossman 1956
299 Plan for shipbuilding| F T Willey 1956
300 Socialism and nationalisation| Hugh Gaitskell 1956
301 What is wrong with the trade unions?| G D H Cole 1956
302 The Kenya question|: an African answer Tom Mboya (foreword by Margery Perham) 1956
303 Plan for industrial pensions| Margaret Cole et al 1956
304 Socialism and the intellectuals| Kingsley Amis 1957
305 The Privy Council as a second chamber| A Wedgwood Benn 1957
306 The new India| Colin Jackson 1957
307 Disarmament - the way ahead| Hugh Thomas (foreword by Kenneth Younger) 1957
308 Commonwealth future| Lord Listowel 1957
309 Post-war economic policies in Britain| Harold Wilson 1957
310 Capitalism in the modern world| G D H Cole 1957
311 A neutral belt in Europe?| Denis Healey 1958
312 Land nationalisation|: for and against John Mackie and Harry Walston 1958
313 Dwell together in unity| [regarding the West Indies] John Hatch 1958
314 China: an economic perspective| Joan Robinson and Sol Adler (foreword by Harold Wilson) 1958
315 Colour and commonsense| Kenneth Little (foreword by Norman Manley) 1958
316 Gomulka's Poland| Lucjan Blit 1959
317 The future of the theatre| Richard Findlater 1959
318 Commercial television| - what is to be done? Christopher Mayhew 1959
319 Reform of the Commons| Bernard Crick 1959
320 Where?| Five views on Labour's future together with an analysis of the election results by Hugh Berrington A Wedgwood Benn, Alan Birch, Douglas Jay, Robert Neild, Ralph Samuel, Hugh Berrington 1959


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Why are the many poor (cover of tract 1)

 

Family life on a pound a week (cover of tract 162)

 

Equality, liberty, fraternity (cover of tract 152)

 

Thomas Paine (cover of tract 217)

 

The Fabian turtle (from tract 251)

 

More socialisation or less (cover of tract 268)

 

Beatrice and Sidney Webb (cover of tract 297)

 

Dwell together in unity (cover of tract 313)

 

The new right (cover of tract 387) 

 

The politics of the environment (cover of tract 412)

 

The computer and society, Fabian Tract 457

 

Information age government (cover of Fabian Tract 582)