 First, some of the work that made Bosanquet’s reputation in his time—his popular essays, the books and articles that came out of his university extension courses, and his involvement in social policy—now seems largely dated. Bosanquet’s association with the majority report of the Poor Law Reform Commission and his alleged championing of the nation state, led many to see him as a conservative if not reactionary thinker whose contributions to social and public policy, and to political philosophy, were outdated almost as soon as they had been published.