Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) Refashioning History for the Twentieth Century
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IHR Conference Series Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) Refashioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline M. Barron and Joel T. Rosenthal Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) refashioning history for the twentieth century Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) refashioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline M. Barron and Joel T. Rosenthal LONDON INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS Published by UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU 2019 Text © contributors, 2019 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Available to download free or to purchase at https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications ISBN 978-1-909646-99-5 (hardback edition) 978-1-912702-03-9 (PDF edition) 978-1-912702-02-2 (.epub edition) 978-1-912702-32-9 (.mobi edition) Contents List of illustrations vii Abbreviations ix Notes on contributors xi Introduction 1 Caroline M. Barron I. Tout as a teacher and university statesman 7 1. The early years and Wales’s history 9 Ralph A. Griffiths 2. Thomas Frederick Tout at Lampeter: the making of a historian 25 William Gibson 3. The Manchester School of History: Tout’s contribution to the pedagogy of academic history 41 Peter Slee 4. Tout and Manchester University Press 57 Dorothy J. Clayton 5. T. F. Tout and the idea of the university 71 H. S. Jones 6. ‘Dear Professor Tout …’: letters from Tout’s students during the First World War 87 Christopher Godden II. Tout as a political historian 105 7. Tout and the reign of Edward II 107 Seymour Phillips 8. Tout and the royal favourites of Edward II 123 J. S. Hamilton 9. Tout and the middle party 137 Paul Dryburgh v Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929): refashioning history for the twentieth century 10. Tout and the higher nobility under the three Edwards 153 Matt Raven III. Tout as an administrative historian 169 11. Tout and the exchequer 171 Nick Barratt 12. Tout and seals 185 John McEwan 13. Tout’s administrators: the case of William Moulsoe 199 Elizabeth Biggs IV. Tout’s wider influence 213 14. Institutionalizing history: T. F. Tout’s involvement with the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 215 Ian d’Alton 15. T. F. Tout and the Dictionary of National Biography 231 Henry Summerson 16. Tout’s work as a reviewer 247 John D. Milner† and Dorothy J. Clayton 17. T. F. Tout and literature 259 D. Vance Smith 18. The homage volume of 1925 – looking back and looking forward 277 Joel T. Rosenthal V. Tout remembered 295 19. Reflections on my grandfather, the historian T. F. Tout 297 Tom Sharp Index 313 vi List of illustrations Unless otherwise stated all photographs are from the family’s personal collection. Figures Tout’s gravestone at St. John-at-Hampstead. 2 1.1 A Balliol group, c.1875–6. 11 2.1 Photograph of the staff and students of St. David’s College, Lampeter, 1890. 27 2.2 Close-ups of Thomas Frederick Tout from the College photograph of 1890; at this date Tout was thirty-four years of age. 27 3.1 Dinner to celebrate Tout’s ‘first 21 years at Manchester’, April 1912. 42 19.1 Tout with his parents, c.1860. 299 19.2 Tout at Oxford aged eighteen. 300 19.3 Thomas and Mary Tout at Oak Drive, Fallowfield, Manchester, date unknown. 304 19.4 Mary Tout with Margaret, eldest child of Thomas and Mary Tout, aged three months, 1897. 304 19.5 Thomas Frederick Tout, c.1897. 304 19.6 Family and servants at Mauldeth Road, Manchester, c.1907. 305 19.7 The Tout family at Edale, c.1909. 306 19.8 Tout with bicycle, c.1920. 307 19.9 Tout in the garden of Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, May 1927. 310 Table 18.1 Homage volumes and volumes of collective work, 1901–39 278 18.2 The 1925 Festschrift – the personnel 287 18.3 The 1925 Festschrift – analysed by contents 292 vii Abbreviations Bodl. Quart. Record Bodleian Quarterly Record Cambrian Medieval Celtic Stud. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies CCR Calendar of Close Rolls Chaucer Rev. The Chaucer Review CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls Cult. and Soc. History Cultural and Social History DNB Dictionary of National Biography Econ. History Rev. Economic History Review Econ. Jour. Economic Journal Eng. Hist. Rev. English Historical Review HA Historical Association Hist. Research Historical Research/Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research Jour. Archaeol. Soc. Chester and N. Wales Journal of the Archaeological Society for Chester and North Wales Jour. Brit. Stud. Journal of British Studies JRL John Rylands Library, Manchester ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Philological Quart. Philological Quarterly Proc. Brit. Academy Proceedings of the British Academy Proc. Royal Soc. of London Proceedings of the Royal Society of London RBRC Roderic Bowen Research Centre RTI reflectance transformation imaging RHS Royal Historical Society SHL Senate House Library TNA The National Archives of the UK ix Notes on contributors Nick Barratt is the director of the Senate House Library, University of London, as well as an honorary associate professor of public history in the University of Nottingham, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a teaching fellow of the University of Dundee. His publications primarily focus on twelfth- and thirteenth-century state finance. His latest monograph is The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown (2018). Caroline M. Barron is emeritus professor of the history of London at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has focused on the history of England in the later medieval period with particular emphasis on the history of London, the reign of Richard II and the role of women. She is a trustee of the Historic Towns Trust, chair of the London Record Society and president of the British Association for Local History. Elizabeth Biggs completed her doctorate on St. Stephen’s College, Westminster, 1348–1548 at the University of York in 2016, for which Tout was an important guide. Since then she has held postdoctoral research fellowships at Durham and York. She has published on St. Stephen’s College in Fourteenth Century England and her book on the college is under contract with Boydell and Brewer. Dorothy J. Clayton is honorary research fellow in the department of history at the University of Manchester. She was formerly head of scholarly publications in the university library and editor of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. Her published work focuses on late medieval political history and on the history of the north-west of England. Ian d’Alton is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and currently a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. He was a visiting fellow at Sidney Sussex College and senior research associate, Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 2014. He is writing a book on the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize, 1897–2005. Paul Dryburgh is principal records specialist (medieval records) at The National Archives (UK). His research interests are government, politics, warfare and economy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He is also joint general editor of the Pipe Roll Society and honorary secretary of the Lincoln Record Society. xi Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929): refashioning history for the twentieth century William Gibson is professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford Brookes University and director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He has written widely on the history of religion in Britain in the eighteenth century. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society. Chris Godden is senior lecturer in economic history and director for teaching, learning and students in the school of arts, languages and cultures at the University of Manchester. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 2006. His research interests include early twentieth-century British economic and cultural history, the sociology of economics and the academic development of economic history. He has recently edited a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library devoted to the life and work of the historian of Chartism, Mark Hovell. Ralph A. Griffiths is an emeritus professor of medieval history at Swansea University. He was a pupil of Tout’s daughter, Margaret Sharp. He is honorary vice-president of the Royal Historical Society and sometime chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. He is the author of The Reign of King Henry VI (2nd edn., 1998). J. S. Hamilton is professor of history and vice-provost for global engagement at Baylor University (Waco, Texas). He earned his PhD with G. P. Cuttino. Publications include Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307–1312 (1988) and The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty(2010). Stuart Jones (H. S. Jones) is professor of intellectual history at the University of Manchester. He is a specialist in the intellectual history of Victorian Britain, in university history and the history of the humanities and in French and British political thought since the eighteenth century. His books include The French State in Question(1993), Victorian Political Thought (2000) and Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (2007). He is currently working on an intellectual and political biography of James Bryce for Princeton University Press. John McEwan received his BA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.