Later this week there will be a talk by Professor David Stack of the University of Reading--which I will be chairing--on the philosopher John Stuart Mill and his posthumous reputation.David Stack has previously done a great deal of work on the interaction between British politics and ideas and science including--most strikingly for me--a work on the The First Darwinian Left: Socialism and Darwinism 1859-1914. This included an excellent chapter on Alfred Russel Wallace and the relationship between his evolutionism and socialism. Well worth a read.
