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Richard Toye
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Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 2d
Did you listen to our podcast yet?

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Series 1: Winston is Back Episode 1: The Battle Begins
YouTube video by Churchill: The Finest Half Hour
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 2d
but guess what for:

‘“These people should all be prosecuted someday,” Kammen says, portraying the administration’s assault on the environment as a crime against humanity. “I’m not joking. These people should be prosecuted.”’
Trump's Assault on the Environment Has Been Even Worse Than Experts Predicted
President Donald Trump's assault on the environment over his first year back in office has done real damage to the global fight against climate chage.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 3d
Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · 3d
JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

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Sarah Moxey @samoxey.bsky.social · Dec 5
My article on the Motherwell by-election is now available to read in @parlhistjournal.bsky.social
It explores the reasons for Dr. Robert McIntyre's victory and how he became embroiled in a sponsorship saga.

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · Dec 4
And more reviews from:

Matthew Roberts
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And @richardtoye.bsky.social
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Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. By Martin Spychal. London: University of London Press/Royal Historical Society: New Historical Perspectives. 2024. xviii, 348 pp. Hardback. £90, paperback £29.99, e‐book open access. ISBN 9781915249258
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · Dec 4
And don’t forget a number of excellent reviews by:

Hannes Kleineke
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Alex Beeton
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Patrick Little
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And Robin Eagles
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St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster. Edited by Tim Ayers, J.P.D. Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith, and Caroline Shenton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2024. xxiv, 368pp. Hardback. £115.00. ISBN 9781837651634.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · Dec 4
Apologies for the delay, but we’re delighted to see our latest issue out in the wild! There are plenty of fascinating articles to get your teeth into, but we’re especially excited by the number from early career historians! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...

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Chloe Challender @chloechallender.bsky.social · Dec 4
After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Nov 27
Listen to the new podcast about the amazing wartime life of Winston Churchill by @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social and Dr Warren Dockter. "Churchill: The Finest Half Hour" begins with the momentous events of 1939

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Winston Is Back - Episode 1: The Battle Begins
YouTube video by Churchill: The Finest Half Hour
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Oct 14
Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Wales about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Listen again here:

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The Phone In - Jason Mohammad takes your calls on Margaret Thatcher, autism, & scenic drives - BBC Sounds
Jason takes your calls on Margaret Thatcher, autism, & scenic drives.
www.bbc.co.uk

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Aug 7
Listen to @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social discuss the legacy of Clement Attlee in the new #LeadingLabour podcast

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1. Clement Attlee
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Gary Love @garylove.bsky.social · Jul 8
Pleased to see that our book Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900 now has a cover and will be out with Cambridge University Press in January!

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@universitypress.cambridge.org

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Writing Politics in Modern Britain | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Jun 9
“If Churchill becomes merely a prop, the UK may find itself playing to a story Trump is no longer interested in finishing” - Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uoearchhist.bsky.social discusses how the UK may use history on the forthcoming USA state visit
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Operation Churchill: Inside secret plans for King to woo Trump on second state visit
Trump loves Churchill - and Britain has one more unplayed card to impress the US President
inews.co.uk

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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · May 28
Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Bristol about the history of the UK Parliament - and why MPs from rival political parties sit facing each other. Listen again here!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio Bristol - John Darvall, 27/05/2025
John brings you great stories, extended interviews and breaking news.
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · May 12
Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to @listentotimesradio.bsky.social about Winston Churchill and VE Day. Listen again here

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Ed Vaizey | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social · Feb 15
My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness
For King and Country
This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · Jan 30
In which I share my thoughts! Also starting @richardtoye.bsky.social, Victoria Honeyman, and Rochard Gaunt www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
How Does History Judge Prime Ministers?
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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · Jan 24
Excited to be part of the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social collaboration with CUP as its first commissioned author of its new series ‘Elements in History and Contemporary Society’. Thank you @richardtoye.bsky.social for inviting me! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
Society launches new book series: ‘Elements in History and Contemporary Society’ | RHS
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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · Jun 25
It's 9 days until polling day and we’re continuing our countdown of Victorian election facts. 9. The secret ballot was not used at parliamentary elections until 1872. Before this, voting took place in public. This blog explains how the system worked: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/e...
Elections before the secret ballot
This month marks the 141st anniversary of the first use of the secret ballot to elect an MP, at a by-election in the Yorkshire borough of Pontefract. Before the 1872 Ballot Act, and throughout the per...
victoriancommons.wordpress.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jun 24
Today I had a good 30-minute chat with Michael Weatherburn from Project Hindsight, covering what historical lessons the incoming Labour government might learn on economic policy... The recording is here:
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Prof. Glen O'Hara - economic and industrial policy: history for an incoming government
Interview with Prof. Glen O'Hara about his thoughts on historical insights for an incoming UK government. Find out more about his work: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/glen-o-hara This is part of an event series aimed at addressing real-world issues using history and historical evidence. Find out more at: https://www.projecthindsight.co.uk/labs
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 24
Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.
Zanzibar coral: How Mnemba islanders are restoring their reef
Conservationists have found a way to restore a reef off one of Zanzibar's islands.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jun 23
Just finished watching Pompeii: The New Dig, it was fantastic! A great archaeological documentary with no presenter, just the archaeologists and specialists explaining the astonishing archaeology themselves: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig
Following the biggest archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 25
It's the latest new and free writing from me! Our university Arts and Humanities are being torn apart by a lack of planning and care. We must act now, or we're going to waste all the decades and billions we've invested in them: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Saving humanities - Research Professional News
Glen O’Hara argues that arts and humanities subjects are victims of a chaotic system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · Feb 23
I understand why so many critical studies academics are rushing to pivot their research toward using AI to do digital humanities work, but I really REALLY wish more of them would double down on critical analysis, argumentation, ethics, and discernment in the age of AI instead.

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · Jan 27
#wirsindmehr

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Nov 24
Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief - 'Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often highly problematic colonial role “[has] to be part of the mainstream narrative about British history” '
Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief
Nick Merriman says inclusion of difficult stories of slavery and empire is not wokery, but ‘simply good history’
www.theguardian.com

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 24
I don't like Stoicism, but I've got to put up with it.

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 24
Q. What do you get if you cross Nye Bevan with Desperate Dan?

A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.