Fabian Window

It was restored to display in the Shaw Library at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2006 at a ceremony presided over by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, emphasising New Labour's intellectual debt to the Fabians.

Also included in the window besides Shaw and Townshend themselves were other prominent Fabians such as H. G. Wells, Annie Besant, Hubert Bland, E. Nesbit, Sydney Olivier, Oliver Lodge, Leonard Woolf, Emmeline Pankhurst and Mrs Boyd Dawson.

that it remained there until 1947, when Townsend's niece Eva Bourne, also a stained glass artist, presented it to Beatrice Webb House in Holmbury St Mary, near Dorking.

Despite all the very obvious differences in policy and attitude and positioning... a lot of the values that the Fabians and George Bernard Shaw stood for would be very recognisable, at least I hope they would, in today's Labour party.

The window will be a visible reminder to students, staff and visitors of the School's historical links with Shaw, the Webbs and other Fabians, whose ideas continue to influence our thinking about society, economics and politics.