Professor Richard Toye
BA(Birm) M Phil (Birm) PhD (Cantab) FRHistS
Professor
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Overview
I am an historian of Britain in in its global and imperial context in the period from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day. I am particularly interested in the rhetorical dimensions of politics, economics and empire. I am the author/co-author of multiple monographs, the first of which, The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 (Royal Historical Society, 2003), was based on my University of Cambridge Ph.D. thesis. The topics I have worked on include the thought of John Maynard Keynes and the writings of H.G. Wells, as well as Britain’s role in international trade negotiations and the history of the United Nations. In recent years, one of my major interests has been the rhetorical culture of the House of Commons and the print culture surrounding general elections. My broad concern with the societal impact of rhetoric can be seen, for example, in Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (OUP, 2017). That book, which I co-authored with Martin Thomas, takes an explicitly comparative approach, reflecting my wider efforts to set the political culture of Britain and the Empire-Commonwealth in its global context.
I am an expert on the life, career and reputation of Winston Churchill. My most recent monograph, Winston Churchill: A Life in the News (OUP, 2020) explores his journalism, his media image (and his efforts to control it), and the reception of news about him by ordinary readers and viewers. This builds on the approach I used in The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches (OUP, 2013) which showed that Churchill’s oratory generated much more controversy and criticism than legend suggests. The Churchill Myths (OUP, 2020), which I co-authored with Steven Fielding and Bill Schwarz, explores how Churchill’s reputation has been exploited in the decades since his death, by, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, amongst others. We show, for example, both sides in the Brexit debate have tried to make use of Churchill’s (highly contested) views on European integration for their own purposes.
You can follow me on Twitter @RichardToye.
Research
I research British and international political and economic history in the period since 1867. I have worked on the Labour Party and on the United Nations, as well as on figures such as David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes, and H.G. Wells. I have made contributions to several fields and I have worked with academics from Political Science, Economics, and English Literature. Several of my books have been co-authored/co-edited with outstanding scholars such as Julie Gottlieb, David Thackeray, Martin Thomas and Andrew Thompson. One of my most important contributions has been to help develop the study of British and imperial rhetoric, which had previously been neglected in comparison to US political rhetoric. My book Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2013) summarises my views on that theme.
Research collaborations
2019 AHRC Research Network Grant (PI, with Gary Love as international CI): ‘Genres of Political Writing in Britain since 1900’. 2018 British Academy conference grant, ‘Global Neoliberalisms: Lost and Found in Translation’ (co-organised with James Mark, Tobias Rupprecht, and Ljubica Spaskovska). 2017 Leverhulme Trust Project Grant (PI, with David Thackeray as CI): ‘The Age of Promises: Election Addresses and Manifestos in Twentieth Century Britain’. 2015 GW4 Building Communities Fund Accelerator Scheme (GW4-AF2-012) (CI with David Thackeray as PI), ‘Modern British Politics and Political History’. 2014 UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Network Grant (CI, with David Thackeray as PI): ‘Imagining Markets: Conceptions of Empire/Commonwealth, Europe and China in Britain’s economic future since the 1870s’. 2012 Leverhulme Trust Project Grant (CI, with Martin Thomas as PI): ‘The Rhetoric of Empire: Managing Imperial Conflict between Britain and France’.Supervision
I would be keen to supervise students in the following areas: -
- Labour party history.
- Conservative party history.
- Liberal party history.
- The careers of politicians or officials.
- The politics of the British Empire.
- The politics of international trade.
- The history of news.
Research students
Completed theses
As First Supervisor:
James Freeman, ‘Talking liberties: the rhetoric of freedom in post-war British politics’, 2017.
James Goodchild, ‘R. V. Jones and the birth of scientific intelligence’, 2013.
Simon Mackley, ‘British Liberal politics, the South African Question, and the Rhetoric of Empire, 1895-1907’, 2016.
Tank Green, ‘Digging at Roots and Tugging at Branches: Christians and “Race Relations” in the Sixties’, 2016.
Begum Yildizeli, ‘W.E.Gladstone and British Policy Towards the Ottoman Empire’, 2017.
Neville Shack, ‘Making the irrational work: The profile and politics of the House of Lords, 1951-1958’, 2019.
Geoffrey Skinner, ‘The Development of Military Nuclear Strategy and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1958’, 2019.
As Second Supervisor:
Richard Wevill, ‘The role of the British embassy in Washington in bilateral Anglo American relations, 1945-1948’, 2010.
Richard Batten, ‘Devon and the First World War’, 2013.
Trevor Stone, ‘Royal Air Force logistics during the Second World War: transformation, sustainment and flexibility’, 2016.
Rachel Chin, ‘Between Policy Making and the Public Sphere: The Role of Rhetoric in Anglo-French Imperial Relations, 1940-1945’, 2017.
Clare Maudling, ‘Utopian Dreams or Peacetime Pragmatism? The successes and constraints of post-war reconstruction in the South West’, 2018.
Mohammad Sabah Kareem (Middle East Politics), ‘The Shaping of the Middle East: British Policy and the Kurdish Question, 1914-1923’, 2018.
Sophy Gardner, ‘Whitehall Warriors: The Political Fight for the RAF 1917–29’, 2019.
Current students
As First Supervisor:
Deema Alhodaif, ‘The Status of Bahrain between 1880-1907 and its Relationships with the British Empire: A Protectorate or Not?’
Yuhei Hasegawa, ‘A political and intellectual biography of Leopold Amery’.
Richard Hill, The development and use of aircraft and armoured vehicles during the First World War’ (thesis submitted and awaiting viva).
Joshua Hockley-Still, ‘Euroscepticism in the Labour party: the role played by the Labour Common Market Safeguards Committee from 1975’.
Martin Newman, ‘British Politicians and the Aircraft Industry 1964–1979’.
David Mottishaw, ‘From Factory to Frontline: A Social and Cultural History of British Tanks during the Second World War’.
William Patrick, ‘The Development of the Office of Prime Minister in the 1920s and 1930s’.
Emil Sokolov, ‘Addressing immigration: a study of Conservative and Labour election addresses and immigration issues, 1960-1980’.
As Second Supervisor:
Lisa Berry-Waite, ‘Women parliamentary candidates and electoral culture, 1918-1931’.
Christopher Burnham (Palestine Studies), ‘No Promotion After Jerusalem: Sir Ronald Storrs, Personality, and Politics in Mandate Palestine’.
Chris Freeman, ‘Beaming the British Empire: The Imperial Wireless Chain, circa 1900-1940’.
Mark Hodge (Art History and Visual Culture), ‘The Last Castle in England: Castle Drogo and the effect of its construction on International Modernism in the South West of England’.
Stephen Taylor (Management Studies), ‘Britain's state nobility: How practical elites acquire habitus and accumulate non-financial capital while studying at university’.
Publications
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2024
- Dettman S, Toye R. (2024) The Discourse of ‘The People’s War’ in Britain and the USA during World War II, The English Historical Review, DOI:10.1093/ehr/ceae006.
2023
- Toye R. (2023) Age of Hope Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain, Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Toye R. (2023) Couldn't Winston trust his generals?, Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War, 223-241, DOI:10.4324/9781003375630-10.
- Toye R. (2023) English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century. A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. ix, 270 pp. Paperback £25.00. ISBN 9781526154965, Parliamentary History, volume 42, no. 2, pages 286-288, DOI:10.1111/1750-0206.12683.
2022
- Toye R. (2022) The British political system, 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change, Third Edition, 15-28, DOI:10.4324/9781003037118-3.
- Toye R. (2022) How not to run international affairs, International Affairs, volume 98, no. 5, pages 1515-1532, DOI:10.1093/ia/iiac061.
2021
- Toye R. (2021) Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill. By Gary Scott Smith, Journal of Church and State, volume 63, no. 3, pages 533-535, DOI:10.1093/jcs/csab041.
- Thackeray D, Toye R. (2021) Age of Promises: Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain, DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198843030.001.0001.
- Gottlieb J, Hucker D, Toye R. (2021) The Munich Crisis, politics and the people International, transnational and comparative perspectives, Manchester University Press.
- Thackeray D, Toye R. (2021) Age of Promises Electoral Pledges in Twentieth Century Britain, Oxford University Press.
2020
- Thackeray D, Toye R. (2020) Introduction, Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918: The Politics of Promises, 1-16, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3_1.
- Toye R. (2020) Robert Gildea. Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present. The Wiles Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 366. $24.95 (cloth), Journal of British Studies, volume 59, no. 1, pages 196-197, DOI:10.1017/jbr.2019.199.
- Toye R. (2020) The Electoral Promises of Winston Churchill, Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918, Springer Nature, 165-184, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3_8.
- Thackeray D, Toye R. (2020) Introduction, Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918, Springer Nature, 1-16, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46663-3_1.
- Toye R. (2020) Robert Crowcroft. The End Is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. $34.95 (cloth), Journal of British Studies, volume 59, no. 4, pages 939-940, DOI:10.1017/jbr.2020.81.
- Fielding S, Schwarz B, Toye R. (2020) The Churchill Myths, Oxford University Press.
- Thackeray D. (2020) Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918 The Politics of Promises, Springer Nature.
- Toye R. (2020) ‘This famous island is the home of freedom’: Winston Churchill and the battle for ‘European civilization’, History of European Ideas, volume 46, no. 5, pages 666-680, DOI:10.1080/01916599.2020.1746074.
- Thackeray D, Toye R. (2020) An Age of Promises: British election manifestos and addresses 1900-1997, Twentieth Century British History, volume 31, no. 1, pages 1-26, DOI:10.1093/tcbh/hwz033.
2019
- Toye R. (2019) Aled Davies. The City of London and Social Democracy: The Political Economy of Finance in Britain, 1959–1979, The American Historical Review, volume 124, no. 1, pages 335-336, DOI:10.1093/ahr/rhy554.
2018
- Winterton J, Toye R, Leeworthy D, Lucio MM, Shave SA, Blackburn S. (2018) Book Reviews, Labour History Review, volume 83, no. 1, pages 81-95, DOI:10.3828/lhr.2018.5.
- Thackeray D, Thompson A, Toye R. (2018) Imagining Britain's economic future, c.1800-1975: Trade, consumerism, and global markets, Imagining Britain's Economic Future, c.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets, 1-18, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-71297-0_1.
- Dockter W, Toye R. (2018) Who Commanded History? Sir John Colville, Churchillian Networks, and the ‘Castlerosse Affair’, Journal of Contemporary History, volume 54, no. 2, pages 401-419, DOI:10.1177/0022009417714316. [PDF]
- Thackeray DA, Toye R. (2018) 'What was a British buy? Empire, Europe and the politics of patriotic trade in Britain, c.1945-63', Imagining Britain's economic future, c.1800-1975: Trade, consumerism, and global markets, Palgrave MacMillan.
- Toye R, Thackeray D, Thompson A. (2018) Imagining Britain’s economic future, c.1800-1975: Trade, consumerism, and global markets, Palgrave Macmillan.
2017
- Toye R. (2017) Arguing about Hola Camp: The rhetorical consequences of a colonial massacre, Rhetorics of Empire: Languages of Colonial Conflict After 1900, 187-207.
- Thomas M, Toye R. (2017) Introduction: Rhetorics of empire, DOI:10.7765/msi/9781526120496.01.
- Toye R. (2017) Churchill, women and the politics of gender, Rethinking right-wing women: Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present, 122-139.
- Toye R. (2017) Assessing Audience Reactions to Winston Churchill’s Speeches, Rhetorical Audience Studies and Reception of Rhetoric Exploring Audiences Empirically, Springer, 85-107.
- Toye R. (2017) Rhetorics of Empire Languages of Colonial Conflict After 1900, Studies in Imperialism.
- Hargreaves JA, Laybourn K, Toye R. (2017) Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons, Routledge.
- Toye R. (2017) Winston Churchill Politics, Strategy and Statecraft, Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Toye R. (2017) Arguing about Empire Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956, Oxford University Press, USA.
2016
- Toye R. (2016) Robin Prior. When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940, The American Historical Review, volume 121, no. 2, pages 655-656, DOI:10.1093/ahr/121.2.655.
- Toye R. (2016) Timothy H. Parsons, The Second British Empire in the Crucible of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Contemporary History, volume 51, no. 4, pages 899-900, DOI:10.1177/0022009416661476a.
- Toye R. (2016) Winston churchill-conservative or liberal imperialist?, The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014, 229-241, DOI:10.4324/9781315552156-13.
- Toye R, Thorpe A. (2016) Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George, Cambridge University Press.
2015
- Toye R. (2015) Keynes, Liberalism, and ‘The Emancipation of the Mind’, The English Historical Review, volume 130, no. 546, pages 1162-1191, DOI:10.1093/ehr/cev215. [PDF]
- THOMAS M, TOYE R. (2015) ARGUING ABOUT INTERVENTION: A COMPARISON OF BRITISH AND FRENCH RHETORIC SURROUNDING THE 1882 AND 1956 INVASIONS OF EGYPT, The Historical Journal, volume 58, no. 4, pages 1081-1113, DOI:10.1017/s0018246x14000648. [PDF]
- Toye RJ. (2015) Winston Churchill: Conservative or Liberal Imperialist?, The Tory World: Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014, Ashgate.
2014
- Toye R. (2014) Book Review: Churchill, 1940–1945: Under Friendly Fire by Walter Reid, War in History, volume 21, no. 1, pages 130-131, DOI:10.1177/0968344513505934g.
- Toye RJ. (2014) Rhetoric and Political Intervention – Churchill’s World War II Speeches in Context, Rhetoric in British Politics and Society, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Toye RJ. (2014) ‘Perfectly Parliamentary’? The Labour Party and the House of Commons in the Inter-war Years, Twentieth Century British History, volume 25, no. 1, pages 1-29.
- Toye RJ. (2014) The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons after 1918, History: the journal of the Historical Association, volume 99, no. 335, pages 270-298, DOI:10.1111/1468-229X.12051.
2013
- Toye R. (2013) Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961–3, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 140-158, DOI:10.1057/9781137318008_7.
- Toye R. (2013) Book Review: Blood, Sweat and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939–1945 by Geoffrey G. Field, War in History, volume 20, no. 2, pages 264-264, DOI:10.1177/0968344512470903h.
- Toye R. (2013) The house of commons in the aftermath of suffrage, The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918-1945, 70-86, DOI:10.1057/9781137333001_5.
- Gottlieb JV, Toye R. (2013) The aftermath of suffrage: Women, gender, and politics in Britain, 1918-1945, DOI:10.1057/9781137333001.
- Gottlieb JV, Toye R. (2013) Introduction, 1-18, DOI:10.1057/9781137333001_1.
- Toye R. (2013) Trade and conflict in the rhetoric of Winston Churchill, A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500, 124-141, DOI:10.1057/9781137326836.
- Toye RJ. (2013) Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.
- Toye RJ. (2013) The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches, Oxford University Press.
2012
- TOYE R. (2012) Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War – By David Edgerton, History, volume 97, no. 326, pages 345-346, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2012.00554_36.x.
- Toye R. (2012) The International Trade Organization, The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199586103.013.0005.
2011
- TOYE R. (2011) History on British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory – By Robert Dillon, History, volume 96, no. 322, pages 226-227, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2011.00515_21.x.
- TOYE R. (2011) Understanding the British Empire – By Ronald Hyam, History, volume 96, no. 322, pages 225-226, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2011.00515_20.x.
- TOYE R. (2011) British Liberal Internationalism, 1880–1930: Making Progress? – By Casper Sylvest, Parliamentary History, volume 30, no. 2, pages 274-276, DOI:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2011.00271_10.x.
- Toye R. (2011) An imperial defeat? The presentation and reception of the fall of Singapore, Churchill and the Lion City: Shaping modern Singapore, 108-129.
- Toye RJ. (2011) The Rhetorical Premiership: a new perspective on prime ministerial power since 1945, Parliamentary History, volume 30, no. 2.
- Toye RJ. (2011) ‘The riddle of the frontier’: Winston Churchill, the Malakand Field Force and the rhetoric of imperial expansion, Historical Research, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00557.x.
2010
- TOYE R. (2010) Living the Great Illusion: Sir Norman Angell, 1872–1967 – By Martin Ceadel, History, volume 95, no. 318, pages 252-253, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.00483_26.x.
- TOYE R. (2010) No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations – By Mark Mazower, History, volume 95, no. 320, pages 528-529, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2010.00496_51.x.
- TOYE R. (2010) A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism – By Aaron Edwards, Parliamentary History, volume 29, no. 2, pages 264-266, DOI:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00141_14.x.
- Toye RJ, Toye JFJ. (2010) One World, Two Cultures? Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Ideological Origins of UNESCO, History, volume 95, no. 319, pages 308-331, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229X.2010.00488.x.
- Toye RJ. (2010) 'Phrases Make History Here': Churchill, Ireland and the Rhetoric of Empire, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, volume 38, no. 4, pages 549-570, DOI:10.1080/03086534.2010.523960.
- Toye RJ. (2010) Winston Churchill's "crazy broadcast": party, nation, and the 1945 Gestapo speech, Journal of British Studies, no. July 2010, DOI:10.1086/652014.
- TOYE R. (2010) 'The Great Educator of Unlikely People': H.G. Wells and the origins of the Welfare State, No Wealth But Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945, Cambridge Univ Pr, 161-187.
- Toye R. (2010) Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, Macmillan.
2009
- TOYE R. (2009) Liberals in Schism: A History of the National Liberal Party – By David Dutton, Parliamentary History, volume 28, no. 2, pages 336-338, DOI:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2009.00111_20.x.
- TOYE R. (2009) Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War ‐ Edited by Sandra Koa Wing, History, volume 94, no. 313, pages 129-130, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.444_57.x.
- TOYE R. (2009) Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity – Edited by Dominik Geppert and Robert Gerwarth, History, volume 95, no. 317, pages 132-133, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.00476_40.x.
- TOYE R. (2009) The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few – By Garry Campion, History, volume 94, no. 316, pages 548-549, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-229x.2009.00468_43.x.
- Toye RJ. (2009) Gordon Brown and the credit crunch in historical perspective. [PDF]
2008
- Toye RJ. (2008) Britain, America and the origins of the European Payments Union: a reassessment. [PDF]
- Toye RJ, Lawton N. (2008) The Challenge of Co-existence: The Labour Party, Affluence, and the Cold War, 1951-64, The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy, I.B. Tauris.
- Toye RJ. (2008) The Churchill syndrome: reputational entrepreneurship and the rhetoric of foreign policy since 1945, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, volume 10, no. 3.
- Toye RJ. (2008) The Broadening of Economic History, Contemporary European History, volume 17, no. 3.
- Toye RJ. (2008) H.G. Wells and the New Liberalism, Twentieth Century British History, volume 19, no. 2.
- Toye RJ. (2008) The Churchill Syndrome: Reputational Entreprenuership and Foreign Policy since 1945, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, volume 10, no. 3, pages 364-378.
- Toye RJ, Lawton N. (2008) The Challenge of Co-existence: The Labour Party, Affluence, and the Cold War, 1951-64, The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy, I.B. Tauris.
- Toye RJ. (2008) H.G. Wells and Winston Churchill: a reassessment, H.G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2007
- Toye RJ. (2007) Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness, Macmillan.
- Toye RJ. (2007) The Labour Party and Keynes, The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political leaders, moral values and the reception of economic debate, Cambridge Univeristy Press, 153-185.
- Toye RJ. (2007) “I am a Liberal as much as a Tory”: Winston Churchill and the memory of 1906, Journal of Liberal History, volume 54.
2006
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2006) Julian Huxley’s philosophy, 60 Years of Science at UNESCO 1945-2005, UNESCO.
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2006) How the UN Moved from Full Employment to Economic Development, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, volume 44, no. 1, pages 13-31.
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2006) Raúl Prebisch and the Limits of Industrialization, Raúl Prebisch: Power, Principle, and the Ethics of Development, IDB-INTAL.
2005
- Toye J, Toye R. (2005) From multilateralism to modernisation: US strategy on trade, finance and development in the United Nations, 1945–63, Forum for Development Studies, volume 32, no. 1, pages 127-150, DOI:10.1080/08039410.2005.9666303.
- Toye J, Toye R. (2005) From new era to neo-liberalism: US strategy on trade, finance and development in the United Nations, 1964–82, Forum for Development Studies, volume 32, no. 1, pages 151-180, DOI:10.1080/08039410.2005.9666304.
- Toye R. (2005) The study of politics as a vocation, Historical Journal, volume 48, no. 1, pages 305-311, DOI:10.1017/S0018246X04004327.
- Toye RJ, Gottlieb J. (2005) Making Reputations: Power, Persuasion and the Individual in Modern British Politics, I.B. Tauris.
2004
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2004) The UN and Global Political Economy: Trade, Finance and Development, Indiana University Press.
- Toye RJ. (2004) “The Smallest Party in History”? New Labour in Historical Perspective, Labour History Review, volume 69, no. 1, pages 371-391.
- Toye RJ. (2004) Churchill and Britain’s “Financial Dunkirk”, Twentieth Century British History, volume 15, pages 329-360.
- Toye RJ. (2004) The forgotten revisionist: Douglas Jay and Britain’s transition to affluence, 1951-64’, An Affluent Society? Britain’s Post-War ‘Golden age’ Revisited, Ashgate.
- Toye RJ, Larke P. (2004) Sir Stafford Cripps, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
- Toye RJ, Larke P. (2004) Sir Stafford Cripps, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2004) Economic knowledge and managerial power at the United Nations: a comparative view, Worlds of Political Economy, Palgrave.
2003
- Toye R. (2003) Developing multilateralism: The Havana charter and the fight for the International Trade Organization, 1947-1948, International History Review, volume 25, no. 2, pages 282-305, DOI:10.1080/07075332.2003.9640997.
- Toye RJ. (2003) The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951, Royal Historical Society.
- Toye RJ, Toye J. (2003) The origins and interpretation of the Prebisch-Singer thesis, History of Political Economy, volume 35, no. 3, pages 437-467.
- rt201. (2003) The Attlee government, the imperial preference system, and the creation of the GATT, The English Historical Review, volume 118, no. 478, pages 912-939, DOI:10.1093/ehr/118.478.912.
- Toye RJ. (2003) Developing Multilateralism: The Havana Charter and the Fight for the International Trade Organization, 1947-1948, International History Review, volume XXV, no. 2, pages 282-305.
- Toye RJ. (2003) The Attlee government, the imperial preference system, and the creation of the GATT, The English Historical Review, volume xcviii, no. 478, pages 912-939.
2002
- Toye RJ. (2002) The New Commanding Height: Labour Party policy on North Sea oil and gas, 1964-74’, Contemporary British History, volume 16, pages 89-118.
- Toye RJ. (2002) The "gentleman in Whitehall” reconsidered: the evolution of Douglas Jay’s views on economic planning and consumer choice, 1937-1947, Labour History Review, volume 67, pages 185-202.
2001
- Toye RJ. (2001) The Labour Party and the economics of rearmament, 1935-1939, Twentieth Century British History,, volume 12, pages 303-326.
2000
- Toye R. (2000) The Labour party's external economic policy in the 1940, Historical Journal, volume 43, no. 1, pages 189-215, DOI:10.1017/S0018246X9900881X.
1999
- Toye RJ. (1999) Keynes, the Labour Movement, and "How to Pay for the War", Twentieth Century British History.
External impact and engagement
I frequently give talks to schools and civil society organisations, as well as contributing to online discussions and podcasts.
I am Lead Educator on the University of Exeter/FutureLearn Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Empire: The Controversies of British Imperialism’. Since its launch over 75,000 students have enrolled. 2015 the course received a commendation from the Royal Historical Society Public History Prize judges.
Contribution to discipline
I am one of the Literary Directors of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) and editorial board member for the RHS’s New Historical Perspectives book series.
I am a member of the board of Parliamentary History.
I am a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College.
I am an Academic Associate of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Media
I have written for a wide range of media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, and The Guardian. I review regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. I have appeared in podcasts and on radio stations around the world, including on National Public Radio in the USA and on flagship BBC programmes such as Today and The World at One. I have often featured in TV documentaries, most frequently on the major UK channels but also in France and Germany. In 2018 I co-presented the Channel 4 documentary Churchill’s Secret Affair.
Biography
I was born in Cambridge in 1973; I subsequently lived in Swansea and then Hove. After completing my BA and M Phil degrees at the University of Birmingham I returned to Cambridge to do my PhD. From 2000 to 2002 I worked at the University of Manchester, and then went back to Cambridge again, where I served for five years as Director of Studies for History at Homerton College. In 2007 I moved to the University of Exeter.
More information
You can read my history and politics blog at www.richardtoye.blogspot.com. Links to many of my publications can be found at http://exeter.academia.edu/RichardToye.