"New Statesman"
Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-1931

This volume reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party.

This book reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party. Placing the early New Statesman in the context of its eight turbulent decades as a flagship of the Left, the book compares the magazine's first journalists with later generations of editors and writers, right up to the present day. By drawing upon interviews with survivors, and a wide range of public and personal papers, the author rediscovers the early - and lasting - importance of the British Left's best-known and most resilient magazine.

Perplexed Fabians - Sidney and Beatrice Webb by 1912
pre-war paper-making - founding a new radical weekly
the New Statesman in Liberal England
common sense about the war - the New Statesman, 1914-18
editor or spy? Clifford Sharp and Bolshevik Russia
Labour or Liberal? the New Statesman and the
struggle of power, 1918-24
"literature is news that "STAYS" news (Ezra Pound) - the New Statesman as a literary review
the years of crisis - the New Statesman in the late 1920s

the rise and fall of the Labour government, and the fall and rise of the New Statesman and Nation, 1930-31
conclusion - 80 years of new statesmanship.