Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Caroline M. Barron - I. Tout as a teacher and university statesman - The early years and Wales's history / Ralph A. Griffiths - Thomas Frederick Tout at Lampeter: the making of a historian / William Gibson - The Manchester school of history: Tout's contribution to the pedagogy of academic history / Peter Slee - Tout and Manchester University Press / Dorothy J. Clayton - T.F. Tout and the idea of the university / H.S. Jones - 'Dear Professor Tout ...': letters from Tout's students during the First World War / Christopher Godden - II. Tout as a political historian - Tout and the reign of Edward II / Seymour Phillips - Tout and the royal favourites of Edward II / J.S. Hamilton - Tout and the middle party / Paul Dryburgh - Tout and the higher nobility under the three Edwards / Matt Raven - III. Tout as administrative historian - Tout and the exchequer / Nick Barratt - Tout and seals / John McEwan - Tout's administrators: the case of William Moulsoe / Elizabeth Biggs - IV. Tout's wider influence - Institutionalizing history: T.F. Tout's involvement with the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association / Ian d'Alton - T.F. Tout and the Dictionary of national biography / Henry Summerson - Tout's work as a reviewer / John D. Milner and Dorothy J. Clayton - T.F. Tout and literature / D. Vance Smith - The homage volume of 1925: looking back and looking forward / Joel T. Rosenthal - V. Tout remembered - Reflections on my grandfather, the historian T.F. Tout / Tom Sharp.