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Despite the self-congratulatory tone of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1949, the League already had reasons to worry by that time. Membership figures had peaked in 1945 when a record of 7,401 men and women were paying fees. The number of branches had reached its highest figure ever in the following year when 109 local committees were recognised by the League’s Central Office.1 From then on, however, the League began to shrink. In the year of the Golden Jubilee, membership had already declined to 6,665 individuals and the League had lost nine branches. On its 75th Anniversary in 1974, the League had only 4,250 members. By February 2000, when the League ceased to file independent returns, this had fallen to 1,755 people.2
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Reiss, M. (2015). A Changing Relationship: The League and Charity in the Post-War Era. In: Blind Workers against Charity. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364470_7
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