Richard Toye

@richardtoye.bsky.social

Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 21h

Churchill: The Finest Half Hour

In the latest episode we chart the beginnings of the wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the birth of the "special relationship".

And answer the question: Did Roosevelt really see Churchill in the nude?

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Spotify – Web Player

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 1d

New episodes every Thursday!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in peace and power, Jesse Jackson.

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Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader Who Sought the Presidency, Dies at 84

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Reposted by Richard Toye, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Graham Webster

🏳️‍⚧️The Milkmaid of Human Kindness🎶 @josie.zone · 1d

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 1d

Have you listened yet?

Let us know what you think!

A new episode drops every Thursday.

Content warning: Banter.

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Series 3: The Prime Minister and the President Episode 2

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d

This disqualifies Farage from any office in the UK whatsoever on national security grounds alone. Tankie nonsense.

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 5d

I love finding old ads when I'm researching ...

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 5d

Yep, that’s me. Yep, that’s my public library. Maybe they’ll ban dancing next and Kevin Bacon will show up. (And I mean the actor and not the pig that escapes from down Clinton Allen Road with that name. 🤣)

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@la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social

"Burn the book and get rid of it forever": Library board votes to restrict award-winning graphic novel for teens despite legal warnings and disrupted meeting - Livingston Parish News

LIVINGSTON, La. — A contentious Livingston Parish Library Board of Control special meeting on February 10th, 2026, ended with the board voting 6-3 to relocate the award-winning graphic novel "This …

www.livingstonparishnews.com

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 6d

Latest episode has now dropped!

Dr. Warren Dockter and I chart the beginnings of the wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the birth of the "special relationship".

Please listen, like, comment, and share!

open.spotify.com/episode/0bBD...

Series 3: The Prime Minister and the President Episode 2

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 7d

On YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 9d

So glad you liked it! Thanks for the shout-out.

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 9d

Finished reading Age of Hope by @richardtoye.bsky.social. A fascinating & detailed revisionist account of the Labour governments 1945-51. Includes a valuable chapter on historiography & discussion of the Attlee legacy & how it shaped the Labour party. Recommended #booksky

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Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Brendan Nyhan, Richard Toye

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 11d

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

www.theguardian.com

Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 11d

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

www.pressherald.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11d

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd

The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly.
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Charles West gives the Society's annual medieval lecture on European queenship - RHS

On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 16d

Interested in writing as a way of 'doing' politics? Then read this new collection of essays, Writing Politics in Modern Britain, edited by @richardtoye.bsky.social & @garylove.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Writing Politics in Modern Britain

Cambridge Core - British Government, Politics and Policy - Writing Politics in Modern Britain

www.cambridge.org

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 17d

On 1 February 1979, The Guardian first reported on the gynaecological examinations conducted by UK border control officials upon South Asian women. Often called ‘virginity testing’, we wrote this article on the Home Office archival records on this practice.

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Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History

This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. ...

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 19d

It might surprise you but if you like poetry and punk this book is for you. Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900 eBook : Love, Gary, Toye, Richard: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store share.google/ToYScTSzGzr9...

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 19d

Hang on in there!

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Richard Toye, Gerald Friedman

The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 19d

The tide is turning. Which means now is the time to push harder than ever.

Tell your Representatives we want Noem GONE!
#ICEOffOurStreets

Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 20d

CFP: explore the historical relationships among natural resources, institutions & socio-environmental change at the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN HISTORY summer school!
18–20 June 2026, U of Tübingen
500-word abstract & 2-page CV to ehtuebingen@gmail.com by Feb 23.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20d

Here's me speaking about the Blair era at the University of Bristol today... Coming to York, Oxford and London for New Labour book launches soon!

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 20d

"Poring over photos and letters from grandparents, great-grandparents, and distant aunts and uncles in the Wiener Holocaust Library, I was able to trace the growing threat of antisemitism in Germany in the 1920s." buff.ly/MJXX1VT

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 20d

Assistant Professor in Irish History
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - School of History and Geography- University of Limerick #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/search/histo...

History Jobs & Philosophical Studies - jobs.ac.uk

Explore the latest job opportunities including research and graduate jobs in History of Art, Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies on jobs.ac.uk's Historical and Philosophical Studies job page.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 20d

📣 We’re pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues.

Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represented across the Press.

Explore the free issues ⬇️
#AcademicSky

The 2026 Free Issues: Read a free issue of each journal

We are pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues. Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represe…

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 20d

As a former resident of (the then not at all hipster) Levenshulme, I read this with great interest. It’s a brilliantly detailed and subtle analysis of the forthcoming by-election - especially good on the complexities of the left ‘bloc’ and the perils (for Reform) of Goodwin’s candidacy.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 20d

New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters

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The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21d

I think the Matt Goodwin story is a sad one. It will likely happen to quite a few academics as they get made redundant and some resort to begging for clicks. They'll go down all sorts of grotesque rabbit holes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer says Reform pursuing politics of ‘toxic division’ after Matt Goodwin unveiled as byelection candidate

Prime minister says Reform seeking to ‘tear people apart’ after Gorton and Denton candidate questions whether all UK-born people are British

www.theguardian.com

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks!

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21d

A (darkly) comic sketch that turns out just sad. How have we fallen to this rubbish politics of fakery and grifterism? Tawdry and bathetic.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why… | John Crace

Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately

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