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Thomas Southcliffe Ashton 1889–1968: A Memoir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Herbert Heaton
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

Extract

To those senior citizens and somewhat younger members of our guild who attended the 1949 annual meeting of the Association at Rutgers University, the death of Professor Ashton last September may revive memories of his lively participation in the program of that meeting. Others may have met him during his spring semester as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins in 1952, with side trips to some eastern campuses followed by a summer school stint at Columbia. Meanwhile the publisher's royalty statements indicate that tens of thousands of students in this continent and elsewhere yearly continue to buy his classic little volume The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948).

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Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1969

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References

1 He presented a strongly “revisionist” paper, “The Standard of Life of the Workers in England, 1790–1830,” and gave a heartening report on recent trends in the writing of economic history in the United Kingdom. Both are printed in Volume IX of this Journal.

2 Pressnell, L. S., ed., Studies in the Industrial Revolution: Essays presented to T. S. Ashton (1960), p.i.Google Scholar This festschrift in honor of Ashton's seventieth birthday in 1959 lists his academic writings, about ninety in all, to that year. Of these he had by 1944 published four research monographs, a dozen articles, and two-score substantial reviews, mostly on eighteenth- or nineteenth-century English or British economic history.

3 In Economic History Review, 2d ser., VII (Apr. 1955), 377–81.Google Scholar