Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas and Intellectual Experience

If objectivity was the great discovery of the nineteenth century, uncertainty was the great discovery of the twentieth century.

This book explores the tangled relationships between knowledge and politics during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Changes within universities, particularly in Oxford, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics,made them, more than before, research institutions. Additionally, renovations within the grand empires of learning, represented by the Roy...