Public Policy and Administration, 20, 2, 2005, pp 67–80.
13D. Piachaud, ‘Titmuss – Teacher and Thinker’, New Statesman, 13 April 1973, p 521.
14TITMUSS/7/68, letter, 8 May 1960, Martin to RMT.
15D. Edgerton, Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p 216ff.
16R. Crossman, The Politics of Pensions: Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1972, p 7.
17M. Hough, ‘Bibliography of Published Works by Richard Titmuss’, in R.M. Titmuss, Poverty and Population: Volume 1 of the Palgrave Macmillan Archive Edition of the Writings on Social Policy and Welfare of Richard M. Titmuss, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2002, pp xxi–xxxv.
18R. Titmuss, ‘The Limits of the Welfare State’, New Left Review, 1/27, Sept/Oct 1964, pp 28, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37.
19TITMUSS/7/65, letter, 17 July 1957, RMT to Merton, Columbia University, New York.
20R.K. Merton, ‘The Role of Applied Social Science in the Formation of Policy: A Research Memorandum’, Philosophy of Science, 16, 3, 1949, pp 161–81, p 164.
21T.H. Marshall, ‘Richard Titmuss: An Appreciation’, British Journal of Sociology, 24, 2, 1973, p 137.
22A.J. Isserlis, ‘Richard Titmuss: 1907–73’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2, 2, 1973, pp 185–6.
23A.L. Schorr, ‘Introduction’, in A.L. Schorr (ed), Children and Decent People, New York, Basic Books, 1974, p xvi.
24D. Reisman, Richard Titmuss: Welfare and Society, London, Heinemann, 1977, with Preface by R. Pinker. Oakley’s main works pertaining to her father’s life are Man and Wife, and Father and Daughter.
25D. Reisman, Richard Titmuss: Welfare and Society, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2nd edn 2001, pp 4, 5, 64–5, 67, 4, 197, 269.
26S. Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography, London, Virago, 2009, p 138.
27A.H. Halsey, No Discouragement: An Autobiography, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996, pp 58, 216. Houghton Street is still one of the LSE’s main thoroughfares.
28D. MacRae, ‘Roundheads’, New Statesman, 1 July 1968, pp 175–6.
29Cited in Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 244.
30Ibid, pp 21–3, 92.
31See, for example, LSE/Staff Files/Titmuss, R.M. Titmuss, ‘London School of Economics and Political Science, Educational Allowance, Application for the year ended 31st July 1952’ ‘London School of Economics and Political Science, Educational Allowance, Application for the year ended 31st July 1965’; and, on occupational pensions, the correspondence between the School, the University of London, the Alliance Assurance Company, and the Inland Revenue, spring 1958.
32Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 8.
33Interviews with Professor Pat Thane, a PhD student in the LSE Social Administration Department in the1960s, 9 March 2016; and with Professor Jose Harris, one of Titmuss’s doctoral students, also 1960s, 18 July 2016.
34M. Powell, ‘Social Policy and Administration: Journal and Discipline’, Social Policy and Administration, 40, 3, 2006, p 239.
35TITMUSS/7/72, letter, 15 May 1964, Shore to RMT.
36LSE/Staff File/Titmuss, letter, ? October 1965, Crosland to RMT.
37LSE/Staff File/Titmuss, memorandum, undated but October 1965, Sydney Caine to School Standing Committee.
38LSE/Staff File/Titmuss, letter, 21 November 1966, RMT to Caine.
39TITMUSS/7/71, letters, 29 June 1963, Concord Films Council to RMT; and 3 July 1963, RMT to Council.
40TITMUSS/7/71, letters, ? July 1963, Craske to RMT; and 1 August 1963, RMT to Craske.
41For this type of approach see ‘What We Do’ on the website of the organisation History and Policy, www.historyandpolicy.org; also M. Powell and J. Stewart, ‘Themed Section on History and Policy: Introduction’, Social Policy and Society, 4, 3, 2005, pp 293–4.
42‘The New Year Honours’, The Times, 1 January 1966, p 5.
EARLY LIFE AND CAREER TO THE END OF 1941
‘As the son of a farmer…’: origins, early employment, and personal life
Titmuss’s early life, unremarkable in many respects, has nonetheless been the subject of dispute. Shortly after his death Margaret Gowing, a friend with whom he had worked during the Second World War, produced an account of his life which has proved influential for how Titmuss has since been viewed.
