Richard Toye
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.
He is the author of ‘The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951’ (2003), ‘Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness’ (2007), and ‘Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made’ (2010). He is co-author (with John Toye) of ‘The UN and Global Political Economy’ (2004).
Specialties: History of Twentieth Century British and international politics.