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| Keywords: R. H. Tawney.jpg Richard Henry Tawney Professor of Economic History Extracts from ˜Portraits from the past Richard Henry Tawney 1881-1962 ™ by Richard M Titmuss in LSE Magazine November 1971 No42 p 6 'The School was only a part of Tawney ™s life as a writer and as a teacher Despite all the legends of ˜the Squire of Houghton Street ™ which accumulated between 1920 and 1949 he was not content to be the conventional academic in universities where many as he once wrote ˜make a darkness and call it research while shrinking from the light of general ideas ™ After leaving Oxford with a Second in Greats he wrote too slowly for exams; ˜I ™m on the floor chewing the doormat ™ he found many ways of linking life and learning; to him this was the meaning of education He found some of these links at Toynbee Hall as Secretary of the Children ™s Country Holiday Fund learning ˜shovehalfpenny ™ at a Workman ™s Club studying poverty at the School on a grant from the Ratan Tata Foundation which helped to bring into being the Social Administration Department in 1912-3 attending meetings at the ward level of his local Labour Party consorting with miners and lecturing mine-owners as a member of the Royal Commission on the Coal Mines serving on the Cotton Trade Conciliation Committee and the Education Committee of the London County Council and above all in his work for the W E A which stretched over half a century Tawney once told me that the fellowship of the W E A has meant more to him than his connections with Labour Party the School and the Church ¦ He was appointed as a teacher at the School in 1920 ¦ and when appointed Professor in 1931 he was given the title but not the salary as part of his time was left free for activities outside the school ¦ ˜Three things ™ he said ˜have caused me to love the LSE ™ One was the intellectual dynamism A second was its informal egalitarian school atmosphere The last was its sense derived from Sidney Webb and many others that the purpose of learning is ultimately to make a juster society “ ˜the School exists not for itself but for the public ™ Though he retired from the School in 1950 he went on teaching More than ever it was accompanied by his beloved Coltsfoot tobacco a mosaic of pipe-ash on the carpet and much talk about how to reconcile and sustain visionary power and practical action personal conduct and involvement in social reform ™ ¦ IMAGELIBRARY/1105 Persistent URL http //archives lse ac uk/dserve exe dsqServer lib-4 lse ac uk dsqIni Dserve ini dsqApp Archive dsqCmd Show tcl dsqDb Catalog dsqPos 0 dsqSearch RefNo archives lse ac uk/dserve exe dsqServer lib-4 lse ac uk a http //www flickr com/photos/lselibrary/4346093450/ R H Tawney c1920s Uploaded by calliopejen1 2010-02-10 12 22 http //www flickr com/people/35128489 N07 Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science R H Tawney png Flickr-no known copyright restrictions PD-old File Upload Bot Magnus Manske August 2 2011 London School of Economics Richard Henry Tawney Toynbee Hall Portraits of men at half length Black and white photographic portraits of men | ||||
