National Association for the Promotion of Social Science

It pursued issues in public health, industrial relations, penal reform, and female education.

[1] It took as model the British Association for the Advancement of Science, holding an itinerant annual meeting, which provided a forum for social reformers.

Twenty-eight Social Science Congresses took place: A committee of the Association produced Report on Trade Societies and Strikes (1860).

[12] There were contributions by three Christian Socialists (Thomas Hughes, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow, and F. D.

[14] The committee included the Liberal politicians William Edward Forster,[15] and Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet.

At the 1865 Social Science Congress in Sheffield, the Parsi reformer Manockjee Cursetjee speaks on female education in India
The Social Science Congress 1879, illustration from The Graphic