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  1. Jun 2025
    1. ‘The difficulty is well known to socialis It will soon be halfa tur sincethe Webbs began to complain of “the increased incapacity of the House ofCommons to cope with its work.”*

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  2. Feb 2023
    1. Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. London; New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932. http://archive.org/details/b31357891.

      It is hard to persuade the accomplished university graduate or even the successful practitioner in another science that an indispensable instrument in the technique of sociological enquiry—seeing that without it any of the methods of acquiring facts can seldom be used effectively—is a quite exceptional system of making notes, or what the French call fiches.

      Webb, Webb 1932: 83.