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The Militant Civil Servant

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Science and Controversy

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Abstract

In May, 1859, The Times published a sonorous call to arms.

‘Storm, Storm, Riflemen form!

Ready, be ready against the storm!

Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen form!’

Alfred Tennyson was celebrating the end of his first decade as Poet Laureate by expressing his countrymen’s fears of war.

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  • Further details of William James can be found in: E. M. S. P[aine], The Two James’s and the Two Stephensons (G. Phipps, 1861). For the War Office and Civil Service background, see: G. Cousins, The Defenders: a History of the British Volunteer (Müller, 1968);

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  • L. Wolf, Life of the First Marquess of Ripon (Murray, 2 vols., 1921);

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  • M. Wright, Treasury Control of the Civil Service: 1854–1874 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969). For further relevant material on the Christian Socialists, see:

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Meadows, A.J. (2008). The Militant Civil Servant. In: Science and Controversy. Macmillan Science. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59393-0_1

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