21Oakley, Man and Wife, p 27.
22The information here comes from the celebratory account, A. Noakes, The County Fire Office, 1807–1957, London, H.F. and G. Witherby, 1957, pp 3, 161, 163, 166; and from H.E. Raynes, A History of British Insurance, London, Pitman, 1948, pp 230–32.
23LSE/Staff Files/Titmuss, R.M. Titmuss, ‘Application for the Chair of Social Administration’, undated but 1950.
24TITMUSS/2/140, cutting from the ‘Pendennis’ column, ‘Dark Corners in the Affluent Society’, The Observer, 1 April 1962, p 12.
25Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, pp 3–4.
26Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 52.
27R. McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918–1951, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, Part II.
28T. Porter, ‘Statistical Utopianism in an Age of Aristocratic Efficiency’, Osiris, 17, 2002, p 212.
29CROSSMAN, MSS.154/3/TM/7–11, typescript of Crossman’s address at Titmuss’s Memorial Service, 6 June 1973, St Martins-in-the-Field, London.
30CROSSMAN, MSS.154/3/TM/17, letter, 12 June 1973, Kay to Crossman.
31Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, p 8.
32Author interview with Frank Field MP, 5 November 2015.
33Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 75.
34Sheard, The Passionate Economist, p 280.
35Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, p 4.
36McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, pp 332–9, 379.
37Oakley, Man and Wife, pp 21, 31–3, 44, 50–52.
38Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, p 5.
39TITMUSS/7/2, typescript ‘Crime and Tragedy’, pp 9, 56.
40Cited in Oakley, Man and Wife, pp 58–9.
41LSE/Staff Files/Titmuss, R.M. Titmuss, ‘Application for the Chair of Social Administration’, undated but 1950.
42McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, p 87.
43Oakley, Father and Daughter, pp 64–5.
44Oakley, Man and Wife, pp 49, 54.
45Oakley, Father and Daughter, pp 63, 52ff.
46Oakley, Man and Wife, pp 19, 37, 47.
47Ibid, pp 3, 60–61.
48Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, p 5.
49Oakley, Man and Wife, p 8.
50LSE/Staff Files/Titmuss, letter, 9 June 1973, Kay to Adams.
51Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 68.
52Gowing, ‘Richard Morris Titmuss’, p 5.
53H. McCarthy, ‘Social Science and Married Women’s Employment in Post-War Britain’, Past and Present, 233, 1, 2016, pp 269, 277, and passim.
54Oakley, Father and Daughter, p 56.
55Oakley, Man and Wife, p 4.
56Oakley, Father and Daughter, pp 8, 63 (emphasis in the original).
57McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, pp 518–20.
58Ibid, p 237.
Politics: the Liberal Party, the ‘Fleet Street Parliament’, and Forward March
This chapter examines Titmuss’s political activism in the 1930s, a difficult decade for British society, and into the early part of the Second World War. Throughout the 1930s fear of another war was ever-present, and the Depression after the 1929 crash further exacerbated socioeconomic disruption in the ‘traditional’ industrial areas. A sense of foreboding was compounded by psychological ideas which stressed the irrational, unconscious, dimensions of human behaviour. For instance, the psychiatrist John Bowlby and the Labour politician Evan Durbin co-authored a book entitled Personal Aggressiveness and War which discussed, among other things, what they described as ‘irrational acquisitiveness’.1 Titmuss and Bowlby were already acquainted by this point, and their paths were to cross on various occasions over