R. H. Tawney | |
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| Born | Richard Henry Tawney 30 November 1880 |
| Died | 16 January 1962 (aged 81) London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Other names | Harry Tawney |
| Political party | Labour |
| Movement | Christian socialism |
| Spouse |
Jeannette Tawney (m. 1909) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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| Discipline | |
| Sub-discipline | Economic history |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
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Richard Henry Tawney[a] (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian,[1][2] social critic,[3][4] ethical socialist,[5] Christian socialist,[6][7] and important proponent of adult education.[8][9] The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles".[10] 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".[11]
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- ^ Magnússon, M. (ed.) (1996, fifth ed. reprint), Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-550-16041-8 paperback, p. 1435
- ^ Rose Benét, William (1988). The Reader's Encyclopedia (third ed.). London: Guild Publishing (by arrangement with A.C. Black). p. 961.
One of the foremost students of the development of capitalism.
- ^ Nicholls, C.S. (1996). The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography. Oxford: Helicon. p. 836. ISBN 978-1-85986-157-8.
- ^ Thane, Pat (2001). Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Britain. London: Cassell & Co. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-304-34794-0.
Tawney remained an influential social thinker from the interwar years through to the 1950s.
- ^ Noel W. Thompson. Political economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005. 2nd edition. Oxon, England, UK; New York, New York, US: Routledge, 2006.
- ^ Gardiner, Juliet, ed. (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. p. 734. ISBN 978-1-85585-261-7.
- ^ Ormrod, David (1990). Fellowship, Freedom & Equality: Lectures in Memory of R.H. Tawney. London: Christian Socialist Movement. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-900286-01-8.
Tawney's was undoubtedly the most forceful and authentic voice of Christian socialist prophecy to be raised during the 1920s and 30s, echoing into the 1950s.
- ^ Drabble, M. (ed.) (1987), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 965
- ^ Elsey, B. (1987) "R. H. Tawney – Patron saint of adult education", in P. Jarvis (ed.) Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education, Croom Helm, Beckenham: Tawney is "the patron saint of adult education"
- ^ Cannon, John, ed. (1997). The Oxford Companion to British History (Softback Preview ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 909. ISBN 978-0-19-866176-4.
- ^ Rowse, A. L. (1995), Historians I Have Known, Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, p. 92