Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He previously worked at the University of Cambridge. He has written widely on modern British and international political and economic history. His critically acclaimed book Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness won him the 2007 Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Awards. His research focuses on the history of twentieth century British and international politics.

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Recent publications include: ‘Witness Seminar: Writing to Politicians’ Parliamentary History 43:2 (2024) 226-248; ‘The Discourse of ‘The People’s War’ in Britain and the USA during World War II’ The English Historical Review 138:594-595 (2023) 1089-1117, with S. Dettman; Age of Hope. Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain (London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023).

Supervision areas: History of rhetoric, UK electoral politics, political writing, Parliamentary history in the ‘British world’.