Richard Titmuss

Standard Name: Titmuss, Richard

Used Form: Richard Morris Titmuss

Connections

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Dedications	Ann Oakley	AO dedicated to her three children (her parents' grandchildren) the biographical study Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss : My Parents' Early Years. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins. prelims
Family and Intimate relationships	Ann Oakley	AO was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss , who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of...
Textual Features	Penelope Lively	Its history of the house, Golsoncott, stands in for the history of the twentieth century. PL interleaves the stories of her remarkable grandmother and her aunt Rachel Reckitt with the stories of child evacuees sent...
Textual Production	Ann Oakley	In Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science, AO combined the social science of her title with autobiography and with biography of her influential father, Richard Titmuss , drawn from interviews as well...
Textual Production	Beatrice Webb	Parents Revolt: A study of the declining birth-rate in acquisitive societies, a book by Richard Titmuss on the falling birthrate as a national problem, appeared with an introduction by BW . Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins. 158-9, 170

Timeline

1938

Richard Titmuss (not yet a professional sociologist or writer) argued in Poverty and Population that poverty was causing about 50,000 preventable deaths in Britain every year.

1 September 1943

Richard Titmuss published Birth, Poverty and Wealth (which his wife Kathleen had favoured calling Poor Children Die), with infant mortality statistics for different classes in Britain.

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