 The result of this was in 1884 Nevinson published his first book, "Herder and his Times", one of the first studies of Johann Gottfried Herder in English.In the 1880s Nevinson became a socialist; he befriended Peter Kropotkin and Edward Carpenter, and in 1889 joined the Social Democratic Federation.In 1897 Nevinson became the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in the Greco-Turkish War.