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["Membership of other organisations"]
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["Friendly Societies",1935,1945]
["General Friendly societies",6.4,6.5]
["Specialised Friendly societies",1.7,2.2000000000000002]
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["Source: William H. Beveridge, Voluntary Action: A Report on Methods of Social Advance (London, 1948), p. 87"]

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["Table 2.3(w) Membership of other organisations"]
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["Labour & Conservative Party Membership, 1928-1948 (000s)"]
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["Year","Conservative","Labour"]
[1928,null,215]
[1929,null,228]
[1930,null,277]
[1931,null,297]
[1932,null,372]
[1933,null,366]
[1934,null,381]
[1935,null,419]
[1936,null,431]
[1937,null,447]
[1938,null,429]
[1939,null,409]
[1940,null,304]
[1941,null,227]
[1942,null,219]
[1943,null,236]
[1944,null,266]
[1945,null,487]
[1946,911,645]
[1947,1200,608]
[1948,2200,629]
[]
["Source: N. J. Crowson, The Longman Companion to the Conservative Party since 1830 (London, 2001), 149; J. Marshall, Membership of UK political parties (London: 2009) (available from www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsg-05125.pdf). Note that the figures for the Conservative party are estimates because no central membership records were kept."]