Tawney, Richard Henry 1880-1962
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Born 1880 · died 1962
Richard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist, Christian socialist, and important proponent of adult education. The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles". A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".
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24 boxes of lectures in typescript and manuscript, for history and economic history courses and for various special occasions, 1910-1950. Some notes for books and pamphlets, and a few items of correspondence. Tawney papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
6O boxes of economic history notes and transcripts from documents. Dept. of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Baron Beveridge, many letters, 1903-1961. Beveridge papers, BLPES
EDWARD C. CARTER, four letters, 1938. Columbia UL, New York.
SIR RICHARD DOUGLAS DENMAN, 46 letters, 1900-1929. Beveridge papers, India Office Library.
JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND, 16 letters, 1917-1947. Bodleian, MS. Hammond.
ARTHUR CREECH JONES, 90 letters, 1929-1961. Creech Jones papers, Rhodes House Library, Oxford.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, 14 letters, 1912-1946. Keynes papers, KC, Cambridge.
BRIAN PEARCE, 11 letters, 1938-1941. BLPES
SIR WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN, four letters, 1934-1942. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, two letters, 1920-1929. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
GRAHAM WALLAS, six letters, 1914-1924. Wallas papers, BLPES
SIDNEY and BEATRICE WEBB, nine letters, 1933-1947. Passfield papers, BLPES
Printed Material
R. H. Tawney's Commonplace Book, ed. J. M. Winter and D. M. Joslin ( London, 1972). IESS xv 518; New Palgrave; ODNB.