Thomas Frederick Tout

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Thomas Frederick Tout (born September 28, 1855 in London , † October 23, 1929 there ) was a British medieval historian. He was a professor at the University of Manchester , where he founded a school of history with James Tait (1863-1944), which primarily focused on source studies.

Tout studied at Oxford University ( Balliol College ) and was a Fellow of Pembroke College . He taught at St. Davis College in Lampeter (later the University of Wales, Lampeter ) from 1881 to 1890 and then at Owen College in Manchester, later the university. In Manchester, he introduced research into original sources for the students in the history study and requested a thesis based on it. This was not taken for granted at the time, and the efforts of his friend Charles Harding Firth to introduce the same at Oxford met with great opposition from those who had their eye on the training of an administrative elite for Great Britain and the Empire .

He was particularly concerned with the administrative history of England in the Middle Ages. Here he is best known for his magnum opus Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England . He also wrote many articles for the Dictionary of National Biography .

From 1925 to 1929 he was President of the Royal Historical Society . He was also President of the Historical Association and since 1911 a Fellow of the British Academy .

Fonts

  • The History of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III, 1216-1377, Longmans, Green 1905, Project Gutenberg
  • with Frederick York Powell : History of England, 3 volumes, London, Longmans, Green 1898–1900
  • The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History, Manchester University Press 1914 (Ford Lectures in Oxford 1913)
  • Edward the First, Macmillan 1893
  • France and England: their Relations in the Middle Ages and Now, Manchester, 1922
  • Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England: The Wardrobe, The Chambers and the Small Seals, 6 volumes, Manchester University Press 1920 to 1933, new edition Manchester University Press 1967, online
  • The empire and the papacy, 918-1273, Greenwood Press 1980
  • The captivity and death of Edward of Carnarvon, Manchester University Press and Longmans, Green 1920
  • An advanced history of Great Britain from the earliest times to 1923, Longmans, Green 1923
  • Medieval town planning, a lecture, Manchester University Press 1934

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SURNAME Tout, Thomas Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1929
Place of death London