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R. H. Tawney
R. H. Tawney
Born	Richard Henry Tawney; 30 November 1880; Calcutta, British India
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
Academic work
Discipline	Economics; history;
Sub-discipline	Economic history
Institutions	London School of Economics
Notable works	The Acquisitive Society (1920); Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926); Equality (1931);

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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]

Early life and education

Born on 30 November 1880 in Calcutta, British India (present-day Kolkata, India), Tawney was the son of the Sanskrit scholar Charles Henry Tawney. He was educated at Rugby School, arriving on the same day as William Temple, a future Archbishop of Canterbury; they remained friends for life.^[12] He read Greats at Balliol College, Oxford.^[13] The college's "strong ethic of social service" combined with Tawney's own "deep and enduring Anglicanism" helped shape his sense of social responsibility.^[14] After graduating from Oxford in 1903, he and his friend William Beveridge lived at Toynbee Hall, then the home of the recently formed Workers' Educational Association (WEA). The experience was to have a profound effect upon him. He realised that charity was insufficient and major structural change was required to bring about social justice for the poor.^[15]

Christian socialism

Whilst Tawney remained a regular churchgoer, his Christian faith remained a personal affair, and he rarely spoke publicly about the basis of his beliefs.^[16] In keeping with his social radicalism, Tawney came to regard the Church of England as a "class institution, making respectful salaams to property and gentility, and with too little faith in its own creed to call a spade a spade in the vulgar manner of the New Testament".^[17]

For three years from January 1908, Tawney taught the first Workers' Educational Association tutorial classes at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, and Rochdale, Lancashire.^[18] For a time, until he moved to Manchester after marrying Jeannette (William Beveridge's sister and a Somerville graduate), Tawney was working as part-time economics lecturer at Glasgow University. To fulfil his teaching commitments to the WEA, he travelled first to Longton for the evening class every Friday, before travelling north to Rochdale for the Saturday afternoon class. Tawney clearly saw these classes as a two-way learning process. "The friendly smitings of weavers, potters, miners and engineers, have taught me much about the problem of political and economic sciences which cannot easily be learned from books".^[19]

World War I Service

During the First World War, Tawney served as a Sergeant in the 22nd Manchester Regiment.^[20] He turned down a commission as an officer as a result of his political beliefs, preferring instead to serve in the ranks. He had initially opposed the war on political grounds, however he decided to enlist following reports of atrocities committed during the German Army's invasion of Belgium. He served at the Battle of the Somme (1916), where he was wounded twice on the first day and had to lie in no man's land for 30 hours until a medical officer evacuated him. He was transported to a French field hospital and later evacuated to Britain. The war led Tawney to grapple with the nature of original sin. "The goodness we have reached is a house built on piles driven into black slime and always slipping down into it unless we are building night and day".^[21] It also heightened his sense of urgency for meaningful social, economic and political change. In 1918, he largely wrote Christianity and Industrial Problems, the fifth report (the other four were on more ecclesiastical matters) from a Church of England commission which included a number of bishops.^[22] Notable for its socialist flavour, the report "set the tone for most Anglican post-war social thinking".^[23]

Academic historian

Tawney's first important work as a historian was The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912).^[24] He was a Fellow of Balliol College from 1918 to 1921.^[20]^[25] From 1917 to 1931, he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics.^[26] In 1926 he helped found the Economic History Society with Sir William Ashley, amongst others, and became the joint editor of its journal, The Economic History Review.^[27] From 1931 until retirement in 1949, he was a professor of economic history at the LSE^[20] and Professor Emeritus after 1949. He was an Honorary Doctor of the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Chicago, Melbourne, and Paris.^[28] He was an elected International member of the American Philosophical Society.^[29]

Tawney's historical works reflected his ethical concerns and preoccupations in economic history. He was profoundly interested in the issue of the enclosure of land in the English countryside in the 16th and 17th centuries and in Max Weber's thesis on the connection between the appearance of Protestantism and the rise of capitalism. His belief in the rise of the gentry in the century before the outbreak of the Civil War in England provoked the 'Storm over the gentry' in which his methods were subjected to severe criticisms by Hugh Trevor-Roper and John Cooper.

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) was his classic work^[30] and made his reputation as an historian.^[31] It explored the relationship between Protestantism and economic development in the 16th and 17th centuries. Tawney "bemoaned the division between commerce and social morality brought about by the Protestant Reformation, leading as it did to the subordination of Christian teaching to the pursuit of material wealth".^[32]

The Oxford historian Valerie Pearl once described Tawney as having appeared to those in his presence as having an "aura of sanctity". He lent his name to the Tawney Society at Rugby School, the R. H. Tawney Economic History Society at the London School of Economics, the annual Tawney Memorial Lectures (Christian Socialist Movement), the R. H. Tawney Building at Keele University ^{[citation needed]} and the Tawney Tower Hall of Residence at Essex University.

Adrian Hastings wrote:

Behind the list of major publications was the mind of a man tirelessly guiding government, Labour movement, Church and academic community towards a new society, at once fully democratic, consciously socialistic and fully in accord with Christian belief. In effective intellectual terms it is doubtful whether anyone else had remotely comparable influence in the evolution of British society in his generation^[12]

Activism

Social criticism

Two of Tawney's books stand out as his most influential social criticism:^[31] The Acquisitive Society (1920), Richard Crossman's "socialist bible",^[12] and Equality (1931), "his seminal work".^[33] The former, one of his most widely read books,^[27] criticised the selfish individualism of modern society. Capitalism, he insisted, encourages acquisitiveness and thereby corrupts everyone. In the latter book, Tawney argues for an egalitarian society.

Both works reflected Tawney's Christian moral values, "exercised a profound influence" in Britain and abroad, and "anticipated the Welfare state".^[31] As David Ormrod of the University of Kent stresses, "intermittent opposition from the Churches to the new idolatry of wealth surfaced from time to time but no individual critics have arisen with a combination of political wisdom, historical insight and moral force to match that of R.H. Tawney, the prophet who denounced acquisitiveness".^[34]

Christian socialist politics

Historian Geoffrey Foote has highlighted Tawney's "political shifts": "From an endorsement of a radical Guild socialism in 1921 through his authorship of the gradualist Labour & the Nation in 1928, his savage attacks on gradualism in the 1930s to his endorsement of revisionism in the 1950s". Nevertheless, the same author also argues that "Tawney's importance lies in his ability to propose a malleable yet coherent socialist philosophy which transcends any particular political situation. In this sense, his mature political thought never really changed".^[35]

In 1906, Tawney joined the Fabian Society and was elected to its executive from 1921 to 1933.^[14] His fellow Fabian Beatrice Webb described him as a "saint of socialism" exercising influence without rancour.^[36] He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1909^[37] and the Labour Party in 1918.^[38] He stood three times, all unsuccessfully, for election to a seat in the House of Commons: for Rochdale in 1918, for Tottenham South in 1922, and for Swindon in 1924.^[39] In 1935, Tawney refused the offer of a "safe seat", believing that being an MP was now not the most effective contribution he could make to the Labour Party.^[40]

He participated in numerous government bodies concerned with industry and education. In 1919, he and Sidney Webb were among the trade union side representatives on the Royal Commission on the Coal Mining Industry, chaired by Sir John Sankey. Equal division of membership between union and employer representatives resulted in opposing recommendations on the future organisation of the industry.^[41] The union side recommended nationalisation largely due to Tawney and Webb.^[23]

His Secondary Education for All (1922) "informed Labour policy for a generation"^[31] and Tawney has been credited for the Party document, Labour & the Nation (1928), which formed the basis of the 1931 general election manifesto.^[27] Geoffrey Foote has claimed that

Tawney's importance in the realm of political thought, and his contribution to the Labour Party, cannot be overestimated. His call for specific reforms in health and education were important in laying the basis of Labour's plans for the welfare state, while his criticisms of acquisitive morality were an important intellectual and emotional basis for many future politicians who were committed to social reform. However, the reforms in the social services which were eventually to be put into effect by the 1945 Labour government took place within the confines of the acquisitive society condemned by Tawney. The social advances made by the Labour Party were not to be as permanent as many believed.^[42]

Adult education advocacy

Leveraging his base among intellectuals in the Labour Party, he spent years in making a lasting impact on democratising higher education. He promoted equality, through restructuring and curricular innovation.^[43] For more than forty years, from 1905 to 1948, Tawney served on the Workers' Educational Association executive, holding the offices of Vice-President (1920–28; 1944–48) and President (1928–44).^[20] He served on the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education (1912–31),^[37] the education Committee of the London County Council, and the University Grants Committee. He contributed to several government reports on education. His thinking was influential in the creation of the University College of North Staffordshire which opened in 1950 and received its University Charter in 1962 as the University of Keele. The new Teaching Block was renamed the Tawney Building in May 1960 in recognition of Tawney's impact on the educational ideals and principles that inspired the "Keele Experiment".^[44]

Death and interment

Tawney died in London on 16 January 1962. He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.^[45] Richard Rees was his literary executor. ^[46]

Works

The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912), London: Longman, Green and Co.
English Economic History: Select Documents (1914, compiled and edited with Alfred Edward Bland and Philip Anthony Brown)
The Acquisitive Society (1920); republished Harcourt Brace and Howe (Mineola, NY, Dover: 2004; ISBN 0-486-43629-2)
Secondary Education for All (1922)
Education: the Socialist Policy (1924)
"Historical Introduction" to A Discourse Upon Usury, By Thomas Wilson (1925)
Tudor Economic Documents: being Select Documents illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England (1925, editor with Eileen Power)
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (London: John Murray, 1926); republished Mentor (1953) and Peter Smith (1962; ISBN 0-7658-0455-7)
Equality (1931; ISBN 0-04-323014-8)
Land and Labour in China (1932) (excerpt)
Social History and Literature (1950)
The Attack and Other Papers (1953)
Business and Politics under James I: Lionel Cranfield as Merchant and Minister (1958), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education and Literature (1964), Harmondsworth, Penguin; ISBN 0-14-020834-8

Notes

^ Pronounced /ˈtɔːni/.

References

^ 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
^ ^a ^b ^c Hastings, A. (1991, third ed.), A History of English Christianity 1920-1990, SCM Press, London, ISBN 0-334-02496-X paperback, p. 184
^ "Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962), historian and political thinker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36425. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 4 May 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ ^a ^b Thane, P. (2001) p. 377
^ Dale, Graham (2000). God's Politicians: The Christian Contribution to 100 Years of Labour. London: Harper Collins. p. 91. ISBN 0-00-710064-7.
^ Dale, G. (2000) p. 95
^ Ormrod, D. (1990) p. 10
^ Dale, G. (2000) p. 91
^ Davies, A.J. (1996). To Build A New Jerusalem: The British Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair (Revised ed.). London: Abacus. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-349-10809-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Magnusson, M. (1996) p. 1435
^ Dale, G. (2000) p. 93
^ Hastings, A. (1991), p. 178
^ ^a ^b Hastings, A. (1991) p. 183
^ William Rose Benét (1988) p. 961
^ "Tawney, Richard Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36425. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Drabble, M. (1987) p. 996
^ ^a ^b ^c Nicholls, C.S. (1996) p. 836
^ Tawney, R. H. (1977). Religion & the Rise of Capitalism. Harmondsworth: Pelican (Penguin Books). pp. Inside page.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
^ Rose Benét, W. (1988) p. 961
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cannon, J. (1997) p. 909
^ Foote, Geoffrey (1997). The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History (third ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-333-66945-7.
^ Foote, G. (1997) p. 76
^ Ormrod, D. (1990) p. 9
^ Foote, G. (1997) p. 72
^ Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 633
^ ^a ^b Thane, P. (2001) p. 378
^ Dale, G. (2000) p. 91
^ Craig, F.W.S., British Parliamentary Election Results, 1919-1949 (1969), pp. 224, 258, 498.
^ Dale, G. (2000) p. 90
^ Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 580
^ Foote, G. (1997) p. 80
^ Tom Steele, and Richard Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." History of Education 37.1 (2008): 1-22.
^ Steele and Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." 19-22.
^ Ramsden, John, ed. (2005). Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 634.
^ Goldman, Lawrence, and Andrew D. Roberts. "Tawney and dogs." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5784, 7 Feb. 2014, p. 6.

External links

Extensive biography
Works by R. H. Tawney in eBook form at Standard Ebooks
Works by R. H. Tawney at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about R. H. Tawney at the Internet Archive
Tawney's Essays introducing the 1923 edition of A Discourse Upon Usurye by Thomas Wilson
Catalogue of the Tawney papers at the Archives Division Archived 18 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine of the London School of Economics
Account of the Somme in The Westminster Gazette
R. H. Tawney, On Property (1921)

Academic offices
Preceded by Arthur Pugh	President of the Workers' Educational Association 1928–1944	Succeeded by Harold Clay

[1] Pronounced /ˈtɔːni/.

[2] Magnússon, M. (ed.) (1996, fifth ed. reprint), Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-550-16041-8 paperback, p. 1435

[3] 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.

[4] Nicholls, C.S. (1996). The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography. Oxford: Helicon. p. 836. ISBN 978-1-85986-157-8.

[5] 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.

[autogenerated1-6] 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.

[7] Gardiner, Juliet, ed. (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. p. 734. ISBN 978-1-85585-261-7.

[8] 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.

[9] Drabble, M. (ed.) (1987), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 965

[10] 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"

[11] 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.

[12] Rowse, A. L. (1995), Historians I Have Known, Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, p. 92

[Hastings-13] Hastings, A. (1991, third ed.), A History of English Christianity 1920-1990, SCM Press, London, ISBN 0-334-02496-X paperback, p. 184

[14] "Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962), historian and political thinker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36425. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 4 May 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[Thane_p377-15] Thane, P. (2001) p. 377

[16] Dale, Graham (2000). God's Politicians: The Christian Contribution to 100 Years of Labour. London: Harper Collins. p. 91. ISBN 0-00-710064-7.

[17] Dale, G. (2000) p. 95

[18] Ormrod, D. (1990) p. 10

[19] Dale, G. (2000) p. 91

[20] Davies, A.J. (1996). To Build A New Jerusalem: The British Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair (Revised ed.). London: Abacus. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-349-10809-4.

[Magnusson,_M._1996_p._1435-21] Magnusson, M. (1996) p. 1435

[22] Dale, G. (2000) p. 93

[23] Hastings, A. (1991), p. 178

[Hastings,_A._1991_p._183-24] Hastings, A. (1991) p. 183

[25] William Rose Benét (1988) p. 961

[ODNB-26] "Tawney, Richard Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36425. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[27] Drabble, M. (1987) p. 996

[Nicholls,_C.S._1996_p._836-28] Nicholls, C.S. (1996) p. 836

[29] Tawney, R. H. (1977). Religion & the Rise of Capitalism. Harmondsworth: Pelican (Penguin Books). pp. Inside page.

[30] "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 20 April 2023.

[31] Rose Benét, W. (1988) p. 961

[Cannon,_J._1997_p._909-32] Cannon, J. (1997) p. 909

[33] Foote, Geoffrey (1997). The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History (third ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-333-66945-7.

[34] Foote, G. (1997) p. 76

[35] Ormrod, D. (1990) p. 9

[36] Foote, G. (1997) p. 72

[37] Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 633

[Thane_p378-38] Thane, P. (2001) p. 378

[39] Dale, G. (2000) p. 91

[40] Craig, F.W.S., British Parliamentary Election Results, 1919-1949 (1969), pp. 224, 258, 498.

[41] Dale, G. (2000) p. 90

[42] Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 580

[43] Foote, G. (1997) p. 80

[44] Tom Steele, and Richard Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." History of Education 37.1 (2008): 1-22.

[45] Steele and Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." 19-22.

[46] Ramsden, John, ed. (2005). Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 634.

[47] Goldman, Lawrence, and Andrew D. Roberts. "Tawney and dogs." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5784, 7 Feb. 2014, p. 6.

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-'''Richard Henry''' "'''Harry'''" '''Tawney'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɔː|n|i}}.}} (1880–1962), generally known as '''R.&nbsp;H. Tawney''', was an English [[Economic history|economic historian]],<ref>{{aut|[[Magnus Magnusson|Magnússon, M.]]}} (ed.) (1996, fifth ed. reprint), ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Chambers, Edinburgh, {{ISBN|0-550-16041-8}} paperback, p.&nbsp;1435</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Reader's Encyclopedia|last=Rose Benét|first= William|year= 1988|edition=third|publisher= Guild Publishing (by arrangement with A.C. Black)|location= London|page= 961|quote= One of the foremost students of the development of capitalism.}}</ref> [[Social criticism|social critic]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography|last= Nicholls|first=C.S.|year=1996|publisher=Helicon|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1-85986-157-8|page=836}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Britain|last=Thane|first=Pat|authorlink = Pat Thane|year=2001|publisher=Cassell & Co.|location=London|isbn= 978-0-304-34794-0|page=378|quote=Tawney remained an influential social thinker from the interwar years through to the 1950s.}}</ref> [[ethical socialist]],<ref name="autogenerated1">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.</ref> [[Christian Socialism|Christian socialist]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The History Today Companion to British History|last=Gardiner|first=Juliet (ed.)|year=1995|publisher=Collins & Brown|location=London|isbn=978-1-85585-261-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse/page/734 734]|display-authors=etal|url=https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse/page/734}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Fellowship, Freedom & Equality: Lectures in Memory of R.H. Tawney|last=Ormrod|first=David|year=1990|publisher=Christian Socialist Movement|location= London|isbn=978-0-900286-01-8|page=9|quote=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.}}</ref> and important proponent of [[adult education]].<ref>{{aut|[[Margaret Drabble|Drabble, M.]]}} (ed.) (1987), ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.&nbsp;965</ref><ref>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"</ref> ''The Oxford Companion to British History'' (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in all four of these "interrelated roles".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to British History|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00john_0|url-access=registration|last=Cannon|first=John (ed.)|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=Softback Preview|location= Oxford|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00john_0/page/909 909]}}</ref> [[A.&nbsp;L. Rowse]] goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".<ref>{{aut|[[A. L. Rowse|Rowse, A. L.]]}} (1995), ''Historians I Have Known'', Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, p. 92</ref>
+'''Richard Henry Tawney'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɔː|n|i}}.}} (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English [[Economic history|economic historian]],<ref>{{aut|[[Magnus Magnusson|Magnússon, M.]]}} (ed.) (1996, fifth ed. reprint), ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Chambers, Edinburgh, {{ISBN|0-550-16041-8}} paperback, p.&nbsp;1435</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Reader's Encyclopedia|last=Rose Benét|first= William|year= 1988|edition=third|publisher= Guild Publishing (by arrangement with A.C. Black)|location= London|page= 961|quote= One of the foremost students of the development of capitalism.}}</ref> [[Social criticism|social critic]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography|last= Nicholls|first=C.S.|year=1996|publisher=Helicon|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1-85986-157-8|page=836}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Britain|last=Thane|first=Pat|author-link = Pat Thane|year=2001|publisher=Cassell & Co.|location=London|isbn= 978-0-304-34794-0|page=378|quote=Tawney remained an influential social thinker from the interwar years through to the 1950s.}}</ref> [[ethical socialist]],<ref name="autogenerated1">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.</ref> [[Christian Socialism|Christian socialist]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The History Today Companion to British History|editor-last=Gardiner|editor-first=Juliet |year=1995|publisher=Collins & Brown|location=London|isbn=978-1-85585-261-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse/page/734 734]|display-authors=etal|url=https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse/page/734}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Fellowship, Freedom & Equality: Lectures in Memory of R.H. Tawney|last=Ormrod|first=David|year=1990|publisher=Christian Socialist Movement|location= London|isbn=978-0-900286-01-8|page=9|quote=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.}}</ref> and important proponent of [[adult education]].<ref>{{aut|[[Margaret Drabble|Drabble, M.]]}} (ed.) (1987), ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'', Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.&nbsp;965</ref><ref>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"</ref> ''The Oxford Companion to British History'' (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Companion to British History|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00john_0|url-access=registration|editor-last=Cannon|editor-first=John |year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=Softback Preview|location= Oxford|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00john_0/page/909 909]|isbn=978-0-19-866176-4}}</ref> [[A.&nbsp;L. Rowse]] goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".<ref>{{aut|[[A. L. Rowse|Rowse, A. L.]]}} (1995), ''Historians I Have Known'', Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, p. 92</ref>
-==Early life and Christian faith==
+==Early life and education==
-Born on 30 November 1880 in [[Calcutta]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Kolkata, India]]), Tawney was the son of the Sanskrit scholar [[Charles Henry Tawney]]. He was educated at [[Rugby School]], arriving on the same day as [[William Temple (archbishop)|William Temple]], a future [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]; they remained friends for life.<ref name=Hastings>{{aut|[[Adrian Hastings|Hastings, A.]]}} (1991, third ed.), ''A History of English Christianity 1920-1990'', SCM Press, London, {{ISBN|0-334-02496-X}} paperback, p. 184</ref> He studied modern history at [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. The college's "strong ethic of social service" combined with Tawney's own "deep and enduring Anglicanism" helped shape his sense of social responsibility.<ref name="Thane_p377">Thane, P. (2001) p. 377</ref> After graduating from Oxford in 1903, he and his friend [[William Beveridge]] lived at [[Toynbee Hall]], then the home of the recently formed [[Workers' Educational Association]] (WEA). The experience was to have a profound effect upon him. He realised that charity was insufficient and major structural change was required to bring about social justice for the poor.<ref>{{cite book|title=God's Politicians: The Christian Contribution to 100 Years of Labour|last=Dale|first=Graham|year=2000|publisher=Harper Collins|location=London|isbn=0-00-710064-7<!-- this ISBN looks fishy -->|page=91}}</ref>
+Born on 30 November 1880 in [[Calcutta]], [[British India]] (present-day [[Kolkata, India]]), Tawney was the son of the Sanskrit scholar [[Charles Henry Tawney]]. He was educated at [[Rugby School]], arriving on the same day as [[William Temple (archbishop)|William Temple]], a future [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]; they remained friends for life.<ref name=Hastings>{{aut|[[Adrian Hastings|Hastings, A.]]}} (1991, third ed.), ''A History of English Christianity 1920-1990'', SCM Press, London, {{ISBN|0-334-02496-X}} paperback, p. 184</ref> He read [[Literae humaniores|Greats]] at [[Balliol College, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB |title=Tawney, Richard Henry (1880–1962), historian and political thinker |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-36425 |access-date=2022-05-04 | year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/36425| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref> The college's "strong ethic of social service" combined with Tawney's own "deep and enduring Anglicanism" helped shape his sense of social responsibility.<ref name="Thane_p377">Thane, P. (2001) p. 377</ref> After graduating from Oxford in 1903, he and his friend [[William Beveridge]] lived at [[Toynbee Hall]], then the home of the recently formed [[Workers' Educational Association]] (WEA). The experience was to have a profound effect upon him. He realised that charity was insufficient and major structural change was required to bring about social justice for the poor.<ref>{{cite book|title=God's Politicians: The Christian Contribution to 100 Years of Labour|last=Dale|first=Graham|year=2000|publisher=Harper Collins|location=London|isbn=0-00-710064-7<!-- this ISBN looks fishy -->|page=91}}</ref>
+==Christian socialism==
-Whilst Tawney remained a regular churchgoer, his Christian faith remained a personal affair, and he rarely spoke publicly about the basis of his beliefs.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p.&nbsp;95</ref> In keeping with his social radicalism, Tawney came to regard the [[Church of England]] as a "class institution, making respectful salaams to property and gentility, and with too little faith in its own creed to call a spade a spade in the vulgar manner of the [[New Testament]]".<ref>Ormrod, D. (1990) p.&nbsp;10</ref>
+Whilst Tawney remained a regular churchgoer, his Christian faith remained a personal affair, and he rarely spoke publicly about the basis of his beliefs.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p.&nbsp;95</ref> In keeping with his social radicalism, Tawney came to regard the [[Church of England]] as a "class institution, making respectful salaams to property and gentility, and with too little faith in its own creed to [[call a spade a spade]] in the vulgar manner of the [[New Testament]]".<ref>Ormrod, D. (1990) p.&nbsp;10</ref>
-For three years from January 1908, Tawney taught the first [[Workers' Educational Association]] tutorial classes at [[Longton, Staffordshire|Longton]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]], and [[Rochdale]], [[Lancashire]].<ref><!--REPEAT-->Dale, G. (2000) p.&nbsp;91</ref> For a time, until he moved to [[Manchester]] after marrying Jeanette (William Beveridge's sister), Tawney was working as part-time economics lecturer at [[Glasgow University]]. To fulfil his teaching commitments to the WEA, he travelled first to Longton for the evening class every Friday, before travelling north to Rochdale for the Saturday afternoon class. Tawney clearly saw these classes as a two-way learning process. "The friendly smitings of weavers, potters, miners and engineers, have taught me much about the problem of political and economic sciences which cannot easily be learned from books".<ref>{{cite book|title=To Build A New Jerusalem: The British Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair|last=Davies|first=A.J.|year=1996 |edition=Revised |publisher=Abacus|location=London|isbn=978-0-349-10809-4|page=176}}</ref>
+For three years from January 1908, Tawney taught the first [[Workers' Educational Association]] tutorial classes at [[Longton, Staffordshire|Longton]], [[Stoke-on-Trent]], and [[Rochdale]], [[Lancashire]].<ref><!--REPEAT-->Dale, G. (2000) p.&nbsp;91</ref> For a time, until he moved to [[Manchester]] after marrying Jeannette (William Beveridge's sister and a [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville]] graduate), Tawney was working as part-time economics lecturer at [[Glasgow University]]. To fulfil his teaching commitments to the WEA, he travelled first to Longton for the evening class every Friday, before travelling north to Rochdale for the Saturday afternoon class. Tawney clearly saw these classes as a two-way learning process. "The friendly smitings of weavers, potters, miners and engineers, have taught me much about the problem of political and economic sciences which cannot easily be learned from books".<ref>{{cite book|title=To Build A New Jerusalem: The British Labour Party from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair|last=Davies|first=A.J.|year=1996 |edition=Revised |publisher=Abacus|location=London|isbn=978-0-349-10809-4|page=176}}</ref>
+==World War I Service==
-During the [[First World War]], Tawney served as a Sergeant in the 22nd [[Manchester Regiment]].<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435">Magnusson, M. (1996) p. 1435</ref> He turned down a commission as an officer as a result of his political beliefs. He served at the [[Battle of the Somme]] (1916), where he was wounded twice on the first day and had to lie in no man's land for 30 hours until a medical officer evacuated him. He was transported to a French field hospital and later evacuated to Britain. The war led Tawney to grapple with the nature of [[original sin]]. "The goodness we have reached is a house built on piles driven into black slime and always slipping down into it unless we are building night and day".<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 93</ref> It also heightened his sense of urgency for meaningful social, economic and political change. In 1918, he largely wrote ''Christianity and Industrial Problems'', the fifth report (the other four were on more ecclesiastical matters) from a Church of England commission which included a number of bishops.<ref>Hastings, A. (1991), p. 178</ref> Notable for its socialist flavour, the report "set the tone for most Anglican post-war social thinking".<ref name="Hastings, A. 1991 p. 183">Hastings, A. (1991) p. 183</ref>
+During the [[First World War]], Tawney served as a Sergeant in the 22nd [[Manchester Regiment]].<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435">Magnusson, M. (1996) p. 1435</ref> He turned down a commission as an officer as a result of his political beliefs, preferring instead to serve in the ranks. He had initially opposed the war on political grounds, however he decided to enlist following reports of atrocities committed during the German Army's invasion of [[Belgium]]. He served at the [[Battle of the Somme]] (1916), where he was wounded twice on the first day and had to lie in no man's land for 30 hours until a medical officer evacuated him. He was transported to a French field hospital and later evacuated to Britain. The war led Tawney to grapple with the nature of [[original sin]]. "The goodness we have reached is a house built on piles driven into black slime and always slipping down into it unless we are building night and day".<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 93</ref> It also heightened his sense of urgency for meaningful social, economic and political change. In 1918, he largely wrote ''Christianity and Industrial Problems'', the fifth report (the other four were on more ecclesiastical matters) from a Church of England commission which included a number of bishops.<ref>Hastings, A. (1991), p. 178</ref> Notable for its socialist flavour, the report "set the tone for most Anglican post-war social thinking".<ref name="Hastings, A. 1991 p. 183">Hastings, A. (1991) p. 183</ref>
 ==Academic historian==
-Tawney's first important work as a historian was ''The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century'' (1912).<ref>[[William Rose Benét]] (1988) p.&nbsp;961</ref> He was a Fellow of Balliol College from 1918 to 1921.<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/><ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=36425|title=Tawney, Richard Henry}}</ref> From 1917 to 1931, he was a lecturer at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>Drabble, M. (1987) p.&nbsp;996</ref> In 1926 he helped found [[the Economic History Society]] with [[William Ashley (economic historian)|Sir William Ashley]], amongst others, and became the joint editor of its journal, ''The Economic History Review''.<ref name="Nicholls, C.S. 1996 p. 836">Nicholls, C.S. (1996) p.&nbsp;836</ref> From 1931 until retirement in 1949, he was a professor of economic history at the LSE<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/> and Professor Emeritus after 1949. He was an Honorary Doctor of the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Chicago, Melbourne, and Paris.<ref>{{cite book |title=Religion & the Rise of Capitalism |last= Tawney|first= R. H.|year=1977 |publisher= Pelican (Penguin Books)|location= Harmondsworth|pages=Inside page}}</ref>
+Tawney's first important work as a historian was ''The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century'' (1912).<ref>[[William Rose Benét]] (1988) p.&nbsp;961</ref> He was a Fellow of Balliol College from 1918 to 1921.<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/><ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=36425|title=Tawney, Richard Henry}}</ref> From 1917 to 1931, he was a lecturer at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>Drabble, M. (1987) p.&nbsp;996</ref> In 1926 he helped found [[the Economic History Society]] with [[William Ashley (economic historian)|Sir William Ashley]], amongst others, and became the joint editor of its journal, ''The Economic History Review''.<ref name="Nicholls, C.S. 1996 p. 836">Nicholls, C.S. (1996) p.&nbsp;836</ref> From 1931 until retirement in 1949, he was a professor of economic history at the LSE<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/> and Professor Emeritus after 1949. He was an Honorary Doctor of the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, London, Chicago, Melbourne, and Paris.<ref>{{cite book |title=Religion & the Rise of Capitalism |last= Tawney|first= R. H.|year=1977 |publisher= Pelican (Penguin Books)|location= Harmondsworth|pages=Inside page}}</ref> He was an elected International member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Richard+H.+Tawney&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
-Tawney's historical works reflected his ethical concerns and preoccupations in economic history. He was profoundly interested in the issue of the enclosure of land in the English countryside in the 16th and 17th centuries and in [[Max Weber]]'s thesis on the connection between the appearance of [[Protestantism]] and the rise of capitalism. His belief in the rise of the gentry in the century before the outbreak of the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] in England provoked the 'Storm over the Gentry' in which his methods were subjected to severe criticisms by [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] and John Cooper.
+Tawney's historical works reflected his ethical concerns and preoccupations in economic history. He was profoundly interested in the issue of the [[enclosure]] of land in the English countryside in the 16th and 17th centuries and in [[Max Weber]]'s thesis on the connection between the appearance of [[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism|Protestantism and the rise of capitalism]]. His belief in the rise of the gentry in the century before the outbreak of the [[English Civil War|Civil War]] in England provoked the '[[Storm over the gentry]]' in which his methods were subjected to severe criticisms by [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] and John Cooper.
 ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (1926) was his classic work<ref>Rose Benét, W. (1988) p.&nbsp;961</ref> and made his reputation as an historian.<ref name="Cannon, J. 1997 p. 909">Cannon, J. (1997) p.&nbsp;909</ref> It explored the relationship between Protestantism and economic development in the 16th and 17th centuries. Tawney "bemoaned the division between commerce and social morality brought about by the [[Protestant Reformation]], leading as it did to the subordination of Christian teaching to the pursuit of material wealth".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Labour Party's Political Thought: A History|last=Foote|first=Geoffrey|year=1997|edition=third|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-333-66945-7|page=74}}</ref>
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 The Oxford historian Valerie Pearl once described Tawney as having appeared to those in his presence as having an "aura of sanctity". He lent his name to the Tawney Society at Rugby School, the R. H. Tawney Economic History Society at the London School of Economics, the annual Tawney Memorial Lectures ([[Christian Socialist Movement]]), the R. H. Tawney Building at [[Keele University]] {{citation needed|date=December 2013}} and the Tawney Tower Hall of Residence at [[Essex University]].
-[[Adrian Hastings]] wrote: {{quote|Behind the list of major publications was the mind of a man tirelessly guiding government, Labour movement, Church and academic community towards a new society, at once fully democratic, consciously socialistic and fully in accord with Christian belief. In effective intellectual terms it is doubtful whether anyone else had remotely comparable influence in the evolution of British society in his generation<ref name=Hastings/>}}
+[[Adrian Hastings]] wrote: {{blockquote|Behind the list of major publications was the mind of a man tirelessly guiding government, Labour movement, Church and academic community towards a new society, at once fully democratic, consciously socialistic and fully in accord with Christian belief. In effective intellectual terms it is doubtful whether anyone else had remotely comparable influence in the evolution of British society in his generation<ref name=Hastings/>}}
 ==Activism==
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 Historian Geoffrey Foote has highlighted Tawney's "political shifts": "From an endorsement of a radical [[Guild socialism]] in 1921 through his authorship of the [[Gradualism|gradualist]] ''Labour & the Nation'' in 1928, his savage attacks on gradualism in the 1930s to his endorsement of revisionism in the 1950s". Nevertheless, the same author also argues that "Tawney's importance lies in his ability to propose a malleable yet coherent socialist philosophy which transcends any particular political situation. In this sense, his mature political thought never really changed".<ref>Foote, G. (1997) p. 72</ref>
-In 1906, Tawney joined the [[Fabian Society]] and was elected to its executive from 1921–33.<ref name="Thane_p377"/> His fellow Fabian [[Beatrice Webb]] described him as a "saint of socialism" exercising influence without rancour.<ref>Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 633</ref> He joined the [[Independent Labour Party]] in 1909<ref name="Thane_p378">Thane, P. (2001) p. 378</ref> and the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in 1918.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 91</ref> He stood three times, all unsuccessfully, for election to a seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]: for Rochdale in 1919, for Tottenham South in 1922, and for [[Swindon]] in 1924.<ref>Craig, F.W.S., British Parliamentary Election Results, 1919-1949 (1969), pp. 224, 258, 498.</ref> In 1935, Tawney refused the offer of a "[[safe seat]]", believing that being an MP was now not the most effective contribution he could make to the Labour Party.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 90</ref>
+In 1906, Tawney joined the [[Fabian Society]] and was elected to its executive from 1921 to 1933.<ref name="Thane_p377"/> His fellow Fabian [[Beatrice Webb]] described him as a "saint of socialism" exercising influence without rancour.<ref>Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 633</ref> He joined the [[Independent Labour Party]] in 1909<ref name="Thane_p378">Thane, P. (2001) p. 378</ref> and the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in 1918.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 91</ref> He stood three times, all unsuccessfully, for election to a seat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]: for [[Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Rochdale]] in [[1918 United Kingdom general election|1918]], for [[Tottenham South (UK Parliament constituency)|Tottenham South]] in [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922]], and for [[Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)|Swindon]] in [[1924 United Kingdom general election|1924]].<ref>Craig, F.W.S., British Parliamentary Election Results, 1919-1949 (1969), pp. 224, 258, 498.</ref> In 1935, Tawney refused the offer of a "[[safe seat]]", believing that being an MP was now not the most effective contribution he could make to the Labour Party.<ref>Dale, G. (2000) p. 90</ref>
-He participated in numerous government bodies concerned with industry and education. In 1919, he and [[Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield|Sidney Webb]] were among the trade union side representatives on the First Royal Commission on the Coal Mining Industry, chaired by [[John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey|Sir John Sankey]]. Equal division of membership between union and employer representatives resulted in opposing recommendations on the future organisation of the industry.<ref>Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 580</ref> The union side recommended [[Nationalization|nationalisation]] largely due to Tawney and Webb.<ref name="Hastings, A. 1991 p. 183"/>
+He participated in numerous government bodies concerned with industry and education. In 1919, he and [[Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield|Sidney Webb]] were among the trade union side representatives on the [[Coal Industry Commission Act 1919|Royal Commission on the Coal Mining Industry]], chaired by [[John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey|Sir John Sankey]]. Equal division of membership between union and employer representatives resulted in opposing recommendations on the future organisation of the industry.<ref>Ramsden, J. (2005) p. 580</ref> The union side recommended [[Nationalization|nationalisation]] largely due to Tawney and Webb.<ref name="Hastings, A. 1991 p. 183"/>
+[[File:21 Mecklenburgh Square, London.jpg|thumb|right|21, [[Mecklenburgh Square]], Tawney's London home. The other [[Blue plaque]] commemorates [[Syed Ahmad Khan]] who also lived there.]]
-His ''[[Secondary Education For All]]'' (1922) "informed Labour policy for a generation"<ref name="Cannon, J. 1997 p. 909"/> and Tawney has been credited for the Party document, ''Labour & the Nation'' (1928), which formed the basis of 1931 general election manifesto.<ref name="Nicholls, C.S. 1996 p. 836"/> Geoffrey Foote has claimed that <blockquote>Tawney's importance in the realm of political thought, and his contribution to the Labour Party, cannot be overestimated. His call for specific reforms in health and education were important in laying the basis of Labour's plans for the welfare state, while his criticisms of acquisitive morality were an important intellectual and emotional basis for many future politicians who were committed to social reform. However, the reforms in the social services which were eventually to be put into effect by the [[Labour Government 1945–1951|1945 Labour government]] took place within the confines of the acquisitive society condemned by Tawney. The social advances made by the Labour Party were not to be as permanent as many believed.<ref>Foote, G. (1997) p. 80</ref>
+His ''[[Secondary Education for All]]'' (1922) "informed Labour policy for a generation"<ref name="Cannon, J. 1997 p. 909"/> and Tawney has been credited for the Party document, ''Labour & the Nation'' (1928), which formed the basis of the 1931 general election manifesto.<ref name="Nicholls, C.S. 1996 p. 836"/> Geoffrey Foote has claimed that <blockquote>Tawney's importance in the realm of political thought, and his contribution to the Labour Party, cannot be overestimated. His call for specific reforms in health and education were important in laying the basis of Labour's plans for the welfare state, while his criticisms of acquisitive morality were an important intellectual and emotional basis for many future politicians who were committed to social reform. However, the reforms in the social services which were eventually to be put into effect by the [[Labour Government 1945–1951|1945 Labour government]] took place within the confines of the acquisitive society condemned by Tawney. The social advances made by the Labour Party were not to be as permanent as many believed.<ref>Foote, G. (1997) p. 80</ref>
 </blockquote>
 ===Adult education advocacy===
-Leveraging his base among intellectuals in the Labour Party, he spent years in making a lasting impact on democratising higher education. He promoted equality, through restructuring and curricular innovation.<ref>Tom Steele, and Richard Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." ''History of Education'' 37.1 (2008): 1-22.</ref>  For more than forty years, from 1905–48, Tawney served on the Workers' Educational Association executive, holding the offices of Vice-President (1920–28; 1944–48) and President (1928–44).<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/> He served on the Consultative Committee of the [[Board of Education (United Kingdom)|Board of Education]] (1912–31),<ref name="Thane_p378"/> the education Committee of the [[London County Council]], and the [[University Grants Committee (United Kingdom)|University Grants Committee]]. He contributed to several government reports on education. His thinking was influential in the [[Keele University#History|creation of the University College of North Staffordshire]] which opened in 1950 and received its University Charter in 1962 as the University of Keele. The new Teaching Block was renamed the Tawney Building in May 1960 in recognition of Tawney's impact on the educational ideals and principles that inspired the "Keele Experiment".<ref>Steele and Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." 19-22.</ref>
+Leveraging his base among intellectuals in the Labour Party, he spent years in making a lasting impact on democratising higher education. He promoted equality, through restructuring and curricular innovation.<ref>Tom Steele, and Richard Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." ''History of Education'' 37.1 (2008): 1-22.</ref> For more than forty years, from 1905 to 1948, Tawney served on the Workers' Educational Association executive, holding the offices of Vice-President (1920–28; 1944–48) and President (1928–44).<ref name="Magnusson, M. 1996 p. 1435"/> He served on the Consultative Committee of the [[Board of Education (United Kingdom)|Board of Education]] (1912–31),<ref name="Thane_p378"/> the education Committee of the [[London County Council]], and the [[University Grants Committee (United Kingdom)|University Grants Committee]]. He contributed to several government reports on education. His thinking was influential in the [[Keele University#History|creation of the University College of North Staffordshire]] which opened in 1950 and received its University Charter in 1962 as the University of Keele. The new Teaching Block was renamed the Tawney Building in May 1960 in recognition of Tawney's impact on the educational ideals and principles that inspired the "Keele Experiment".<ref>Steele and Taylor. "R.H. Tawney and the Reform of the Universities." 19-22.</ref>
 ==Death and interment==
+[[File:Tawney, Richard 1962.jpg|thumb|150px|Grave of Richard Tawney in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]
-[[File:21 Mecklenburgh Square, London.jpg|thumb|right|21, [[Mecklenburgh Square]], Tawney's London home. The other [[Blue plaque]] commemorates [[Syed Ahmad Khan]] who also lived there.]]
-Tawney died in [[London]] on 16 January 1962. He is buried in [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics|last=Ramsden|first=John (ed.)|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=634}}</ref>
+Tawney died in [[London]] on 16 January 1962. He is buried on the eastern side of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics|editor-last=Ramsden|editor-first=John |year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=634}}</ref> [[Sir Richard Rees, 2nd Baronet|Richard Rees]] was his literary executor. <ref>Goldman, Lawrence, and Andrew D. Roberts. "Tawney and dogs." ''Times Literary Supplement'', no. 5784, 7 Feb. 2014, p. 6.
+</ref>
 ==Works==
-* ''The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century'' (1912), London: Longman, Green and Co.
+* ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40336 The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century]'' (1912), London: Longman, Green and Co.
+* ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43211/43211-h/43211-h.htm English Economic History: Select Documents]'' (1914, compiled and edited with Alfred Edward Bland and Philip Anthony Brown)
-* ''The Acquisitive Society'' (1920); republished Harcourt Brace and Howe (Mineola, NY, Dover: 2004; {{ISBN|0-486-43629-2}})
+* ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33741/33741-h/33741-h.htm The Acquisitive Society]'' (1920); republished Harcourt Brace and Howe (Mineola, NY, Dover: 2004; {{ISBN|0-486-43629-2}})
-* ''[[Secondary Education For All|Secondary Education for All]]'' (1922) <!-- publisher info needed -->
-* ''Education: the Socialist Policy'' (1924) <!-- publisher info needed -->
+* ''[[Secondary Education for All]]'' (1922) <!-- publisher info needed -->
+* ''[[iarchive:educationsociali00tawn|Education: the Socialist Policy]]'' (1924)<!-- publisher info needed -->
-* ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (1926); republished Mentor (1953) and Peter Smith (1962; {{ISBN|0-7658-0455-7}})
+* "[[iarchive:tawney-r-h-historical-introduction-to-wilsons-a-discourse-upon|Historical Introduction]]" to ''A Discourse Upon Usury, By Thomas Wilson'' (1925)
-* ''Equality'' (1931; {{ISBN|0-04-323014-8}}) <!-- publisher info needed -->
+* ''[[iarchive:tudoreconomicdoc0001tawn|Tudor Economic Documents: being Select Documents illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England]]'' (1925, editor with [[Eileen Power]])
-* [https://www.questia.com/library/book/land-and-labour-in-china-by-r-h-tawney.jsp ''Land and Labour in China'' (excerpt)] (1932)
+* ''[[iarchive:in.ernet.dli.2015.48726|Religion and the Rise of Capitalism]]'' (London: John Murray, 1926); republished Mentor (1953) and Peter Smith (1962; {{ISBN|0-7658-0455-7}})
-*''Business and Politics under James I: Lionel Cranfield as Merchant and Minister'' (1958), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
+* ''[[iarchive:equality00tawn/|Equality]]'' (1931; {{ISBN|0-04-323014-8}})<!-- publisher info needed -->
-* ''The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education and Literature'' (1964), Harmondsworth, Penguin; {{ISBN|0-14-020834-8}}
+* ''[[iarchive:in.ernet.dli.2015.83942|Land and Labour in China]]'' (1932) ([https://www.questia.com/library/book/land-and-labour-in-china-by-r-h-tawney.jsp excerpt])
+* ''Social History and Literature'' (1950)
+* ''[[iarchive:attackotherpaper00tawn|The Attack and Other Papers]]'' (1953)
+*''[[iarchive:businesspolitics0000tawn|Business and Politics under James I: Lionel Cranfield as Merchant and Minister]]'' (1958), Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]]
+* ''[[iarchive:radicaltradition0000tawn_e4v7|The Radical Tradition: Twelve Essays on Politics, Education and Literature]]'' (1964), Harmondsworth, Penguin; {{ISBN|0-14-020834-8}}
 ==Notes==
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 * Armstrong, Gary, and Tim Gray. ''The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney'' (Andrews UK Limited, 2016).
 * Bird, Colin. "Tawney, Richard Henry" in ''The Encyclopedia of Political Thought'' (2015). [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0990/pdf online]
-* MacIntyre, Alasdair.   ""The Socialism of R. H. Tawney" ''New York Review'' (July 30, 1964) [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/07/30/the-socialism-of-r-h-tawney/ online]
+* MacIntyre, Alasdair. ""The Socialism of R. H. Tawney" ''New York Review'' (30 July 1964) [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/07/30/the-socialism-of-r-h-tawney/ online]
 * Marsden, John. "Richard Tawney: Moral Theology and the Social Order." ''Political Theology'' 7.2 (2006): 181–199.
 * Martin, David A. "R.H. Tawney as political economist." ''Journal of Economic Issues'' 16.2 (1982): 535–543.
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 *[http://www.infed.org/thinkers/tawney.htm Extensive biography]
+* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/r-h-tawney}}
-* {{Gutenberg author | id=Tawney,+R.+H. | name=R. H. Tawney}}
+* {{Gutenberg author | id=40560| name=R. H. Tawney}}
 * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Richard Henry Tawney}}
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081216021347/http://www.cesc.net/serifweb/scholars/tawney/ Tawney's Essays introducing the 1923 edition of ''A Discourse Upon Usurye'' by Thomas Wilson]
+* [http://cesc.net/adobeweb/scholars/tawney/tawney.pdf Tawney's Essays introducing the 1923 edition of ''A Discourse Upon Usurye'' by Thomas Wilson]
-* [http://archives.lse.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=TAWNEY Catalogue of the Tawney papers] at the [http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm Archives Division] of the [[London School of Economics]]
+* [http://archives.lse.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=TAWNEY Catalogue of the Tawney papers] at the [http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm Archives Division] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618035533/http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm |date=18 June 2007 }} of the [[London School of Economics]]
 * [http://leoklein.com/itp/somme/texts/tawney_1916.html Account of the Somme in ''The Westminster Gazette'']
 * [http://www.panarchy.org/tawney/property.html R. H. Tawney, ''On Property''] (1921)
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