rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_d4eda391-2a12-5e32-82d5-22aebc4ac9ba">22Ibid, pp 56, 71, 96–7.
23Ibid, pp 42–4.
24TITMUSS/8/4, Brochure for Liberal Summer School, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, July/August 1938.
25Letter, Sir K. Hancock, ‘Richard Titmuss’, The Times, 15 May 1973, p 18.
26TITMUSS/8/4, letter, 27 February 1939, Hargreaves to RMT.
27TITMUSS/8/4, Brochure for Liberal Summer School, University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, August 1939, p 19. On Cadbury and family allowances, see R.A. Soloway, Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1990, p 306.
28TITMUSS/8/4, letter, 18 June 1939, RMT to Cadbury; R.M. Titmuss, Poverty and Population: A Factual Study of Contemporary Waste, London, Macmillan, 1938, p 33.
29‘Liberal Summer School: Family Allowances to be an Issue at the Next Election’, The Manchester Guardian, 10 August 1939, p 15. The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births.
30TITMUSS/8/4, letter, 10 August 1939, Brown to RMT.
31TITMUSS/7/47, letters, 11 August 1939, Barry to RMT; and 16 August 1939, RMT to Henderson.
32M. Freeden, Liberalism Divided: A Study in British Political Though, 1914–1939, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986, p 344.
33TITMUSS/7/47, letters, 22 November 1939, Kidd to RMT; and 29 November 1939, RMT to Kidd.
34R. McKibbin, Parties and People: England 1914–1951, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, Ch 4.
35P. Addison, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945, London, Pimlico edn, 1992, p 546ff.
36A.F. Thompson, ‘Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
37TITMUSS/8/6, letter, 17 February 1940, RMT to Acland (emphasis in the original).
38TITMUSS/8/5, letters, 19 February 1940, Acland to RMT; and 1 March 1940, RMT to Acland (emphasis in the original).
39TITMUSS/8/5, letter, 19 March 1940, RMT to Secretary, ‘Manifesto of the Common Men’; and Notice of Meeting of the Unser Kampf Group, 26 March 1940.
40TITMUSS/8/6, ‘Home Policy Committee: Resume of Discussions 31st May, 1940’, p 1 and signed by RMT.
41TITMUSS/8/6, letter, 4 March 1941, RMT to Kenneth Ingram.
42TITMUSS/8/5, ‘Unapproved Minutes of a Meeting of the Inner Executive of the Forward March Held … on Thursday 2nd April at 7pm’. No year but Kay Titmuss has written 1941?, which looks right.
43TITMUSS/8/6, letter, 5 April 1941, to W.F. Kissack.
44TITMUSS/8/6, letter, 21 April 1942, Wilfred Brown to RMT.
45TITMUSS/8/7, letter, 4 June 1941, Acland to RMT.
46TITMUSS/8/7, letter, 21t June 1941, RMT to Acland (emphasis in the original).
47TITMUSS/2/83, typescript ‘Statement to Branches on the Beveridge Report’ with attached note, 28 November 1955, RMT to Abel-Smith.
48R.M. Titmuss, ‘The Right to Social Security’, in R.M. Titmuss and M. Zander, Unequal Rights, London, CPAG, 1968, p 3.
49TITMUSS/8/6, letter, 5 June 1942, RMT to Acland.
50Cited in A.H. Halsey, No Discouragement: An Autobiography, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996, p 217.
51Freeden, Liberalism Divided, pp 223ff., 313ff.
52M. Freeden, Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth Century Progressive Thought, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2005, pp 175–7, 182–4.
53J. Stewart, ‘“Man against Disease”: The Medical Left and the Lessons of Science’, in D. Leggett and C. Sleigh (eds), Scientific Governance in Britain, 1914–79, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp 199–216.
The Eugenics Society, Poverty and Population, and ‘Manpower and Health’
The last chapter examined Titmuss’s political activities in the 1930s and early 1940s. Demanding as these undoubtedly were, Titmuss also found time for other forms of social and political engagement. Among his early research interests were population, and population health. He was convinced, as were many others at this time, that Britain’s population was in decline, and that this promised problems for the future. Nonetheless, as Pat Thane puts it, Titmuss was ‘the most persistent, prolific, and one of the most immoderate demographic pessimists’ of the 1930s and beyond.1 We shall encounter this pessimism in this, and later, chapters. Titmuss was, further, concerned about population health, arguing that proper analysis of the rates of morbidity and mortality revealed significant class and regional disparities in health experience and outcomes. Such concerns led to membership
