Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain

by John Campbell

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Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5, MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the ‘redbrick’ universities and the Medical Research Council?

This book reveals that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence, education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his time—the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in 1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781787383111
  • Publish Date 16 July 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 616
  • Language English