R. H. Tawney
An Appreciation by Christopher Hill
R. H. Tawney, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate this year, was one of the greatest historians writing in English – some would say the greatest – of our time. Tout and Namier were superb professional historians, but Tawney fired the imagination of my generation. His output was relatively small, but almost all of it stimulated profitable discussion.
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