Fred Lee asks for sources on Georgism in the UK, 1900-70.
There are many. Here are a few, just a small sampling:
Roy Douglas, *Land People and Politics*
Elwood P. Lawrence et al., *George and Democracy in the British Isles*
(mostly, but not entirely, pre-1900)
Miller, George, *On Fairness and Efficiency*
Geiger, George R., *The Philosophy of Henry George*, pp.406-23
Arthur Madsen, "Great Britain", in Miller, Joseph Dana, *The Single Tax
Yearbook*, pp. 97-121
The Georgist journal, *Land and Liberty*, was published from before 1900 to
date.
Georgists were organized politically, first in the Radical-Liberal Party,
under Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, and Lloyd-George. They were responsible
for a land valuation bill that the Lords blocked, leading to a crisis, and
the gelding of the Lords with the cooperation of King Edward VI, a drama
played out 1909-11. The opposition regrouped during W.W. I and silently
buried the revaluation while the young Georgists were busy charging machine
guns in Flanders' Fields and at Paaschendaele.
There were, of course, many Georgist MP's, to support such legislation.
Josiah Wedgwood was one, and he may have a book out.
The next high point was 1931, under Snowden. Neville Chamberlain reversed
Snowden's legislation (and paid the price in humiliation at Munich, 1938).
There are and have been several NGO's with educational programmes.
Mason Gaffney
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