Professor Richard Toye

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. His books include 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). In 2007 he won the Times Higher Education Young Academic Author of the Year award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the History & Policy editorial advisory group.

‘We shall fight on the beaches’: 3 things you never knew about Churchill’s most famous speech

Professor Richard Toye, 2 December 2013 - Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Second World War

Ask anyone to name Winston Churchill’s best-known speech and nine times out of ten they will answer: We shall fight them on the beaches. It’s not an exact quotation – Churchill did not include the word ‘them’ – but the …

Prime Ministers and their Chancellors

Professor Richard Toye, 1 August 2012 - Finance and economics, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10

The connection between Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer is probably the most important, and potentially the most problematic, of all ministerial relationships. Foreign Secretaries and Home Secretaries can be powerful figures, and yet they rarely have the capacity …

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