The Trust held lectures annually to further these causes. This 7-volume collection originally published between 1929 and 1949 forms a selection of those lectures. They were given by eminent figures of the time, covering topics such as economics, science and religion.
Still going today, the Sir Halley Stewart Trust is a grant-giving charity that supports innovative and pioneering Social, Medical and Religious projects, to enable human flourishing and to prevent suffering.
By Norman Angell
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1933, this volume From Chaos to Control represents the expansion of notes used in the delivery of the Halley Stewart Lectures for 1932–1933. Following on from the economic lecture of the previous year, this title covers “the psychology of popular understanding, of the nature...
By Charles E. Raven
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1935, this volume Is War Obsolete? A Study of the Conflicting Claims of Religion and Citizenship is based on the Halley Stewart Lectures presented in 1934 and examines the responsibility of Christians for peace. It aims to reconsider the basis of Christian Pacifism and to ...
By John Hilton
November 15, 2024
First published in 1944 (Sir Halley Stewart Lectures 1938), the original blurb reads: “In Rich Man, Poor Man, Professor John Hilton examines the facts as to the distribution of wealth in this country. He finds that of our twelve million families only four million (a few of them immensely rich) are ...
By Various
November 15, 2024
The Sir Halley Stewart Trust was founded in 1924 for research towards the Christian ideal in all social life. The objects of the Trust were in general: to advance religion; to advance education; to relieve poverty; to promote other Charitable purposes beneficial to the community. The Trust held ...
By M. L. Oliphant, P. M. S. Blackett, R. F. Harrod, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Curtis, D. W. Brogan
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1948. Following the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 the Western world was very concerned about the impact of nuclear war. This book reflects on ...
By Gilbert Murray
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1929, profound changes, political, social, economic and intellectual, had taken place during the previous fifty years in the environment of civilized man, and it was still doubtful whether or not he would succeed in understanding them and adapting himself to meet them. That ...
By Arthur Salter, Josiah Stamp, J. Maynard Keynes, Basil Blackett, Henry Clay, W. H. Beveridge
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1931. The trust was founded in 1924 for research towards the Christian ideal in all social life. All distinguished ...
By A. Loveday, J. B. Condliffe, B. Ohlin, E. F. Heckscher, S. de Madariaga
November 15, 2024
Originally published in 1938, this symposium, based on the Sir Halley Stewart lectures for 1937, numbers among its contributors some of the world’s most distinguished economists and the subjects of which they treat are of vital interest. Professor Heckscher deals with some recent important ...