Just Good Friends The Fabian Society’s relationship to the Labour Party By Richard Bomford The Fabian Society came into existence in the last few years of the nineteenth century. It began in a way that is similar to the way it exists today in Tunbridge Wells, a small number of people who were interested in social change met together to listen to a speaker and discuss political issues among themselves. This was taking place in the drawing rooms of the middle class members, because nea
