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George Bernard Shaw

From the NS archive: GBS and the New Statesman

16 April 1938: A playwright in the right about the First World War.

By George Bernard Shaw

From the NS archive: GBS and the New Statesman

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From the NS archive: HG Wells, the man I knew

17 August 1946: Fellow Fabian George Bernard Shaw marks the death of his friend Herbert George Wells.

By George Bernard Shaw

H G Wells: the man I knew

George Bernard Shaw was, with the Webbs, one of the founders of the NS. This piece is a personal…

By George Bernard Shaw

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