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Richard John Toye (born 1973) is a British historian and academic. He is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He was previously a Fellow and Director of Studies for History at
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, University of Cambridge, from 2002 to 2007, and before that he taught at University of Manchester from 2000.


Early life

Toye was born in 1973 in Cambridge, but subsequently moved to
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and then to Hove,
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. He took a BA in history and then an MPhil at the University of Birmingham. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Cambridge in 1999. His doctoral thesis was titled "The Labour Party and the planned economy 1931-1951".


Biography

His book ''Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness'' was the winner of the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award in 2007. One of the judges,
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, professor of women's and gender history at Portsmouth University, said: "This is an extremely readable, lively book that explores the complex personal and political relationship between two great male politicians who helped to shape 20th-century Britain. The changing shades and hues of their relationship are documented in fascinating detail." It received widespread critical acclaim from a number of newspaper reviews for its "nuanced" approach. He has written extensively on
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: his book ''Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made'' was critically acclaimed. His most recent book is ''The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches''. Toye has also written on
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. In late 2018 he appeared in the documentary ''Churchill's mistress'' discussing the fate of Dora, Lady Castlerosse broadcast on Yesterday television. At Exeter he specialises in teaching and researching Churchill and all aspects of party politics during the period of the Third British Empire. Commensurate with his role as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society he was one of the signatories to a letter that strongly defended the Historical Association: government attempts to depoliticise the teaching profession have been largely unsuccessful.


Books


As sole author

* ''Winston Churchill: A Life in the News'' ( Oxford University Press, 2020). * ''Winston Churchill: Politics, Strategy and Statecraft'' (
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, 2016). * ''The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches'' (Oxford University Press, 2013). * ''Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford University Press, 2013). * ''Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made'', (
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, 2010). * ''Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness'', (Macmillan, 2007). * ''The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931–1951'', ( Royal Historical Society/
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, 2003).


Co-written volumes

* with David Thackeray, ''Age of Promises: Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain'' (Oxford University Press, 2021). * with Julia Gottlieb and Daniel Hucker, ''The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People: International, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Cultural History in Modern War series)'' (
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, 2021). * with David Thackeray, ''Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918: The Politics of Promises'' ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). * with Steven Fielding and Bill Schwarz, ''The Churchill Myths'' (Oxford University Press, 2020). * with David Thackeray and Andrew Thompson, ''Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). * with John A. Hargreaves and Keith Laybourn, ''Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons (Routledge Studies in Modern British History series)'' ( Routledge, 2017). * with Martin Thomas, ''Arguing About Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956'' (Oxford University Press, 2017). * with Martin Thomas, ''Rhetorics of Empire: Languages of Colonial Conflict after 1900 (Studies in Imperialism series)'' (Manchester University Press, 2017). * with
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, ''Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George: The Diaries of Cecil Harmsworth MP, 1909–22 (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 50)'' (Royal Historical Society/ Cambridge University Press, 2016). * with Julie Gottlieb, ''The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). * with Julie Gottlieb, ''Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics'' (
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, 2005). * with John Toye, ''The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance and Development'' (
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, 2004)


Academic publications

* "The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons after 1918", ''History: The Journal of the Historical Association'', 99 (335), 270-298. * "Keynes, Liberalism, and The Emancipation of the Mind", ''The English Historical Review,'' cev215-cev215.


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Richard Toye
at the University of Exeter
Professor Toye
and Churchill College, Cambridge
'Young academic author of the year - Richard Toye'
in the '' Times Higher Education Supplement'', 26 November 2007
'The friendship between the 20th century's two political titans'
review by John Campbell of ''Lloyd George and Churchill'', published in ''
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'', 18 April 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Toye, Richard Academics of the University of Exeter Living people Fellows of Homerton College, Cambridge 1973 births Fellows of the Royal Historical Society