Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Launching 13 October. shows.acast.com/tales-from-t... 033
Reposted by Richard ToyeBill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I did a Terry Wogan impression as part of an act at the Edinburgh Festival fringe last year. Nobody in the audience knew who he was. Next year I'm doing Benjamin Disraeli. 2291
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026open.spotify.com/episode/0UsF...open.spotify.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for GreatnessChurchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 000
Reposted by Richard ToyeEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So #historians, I might ask again - what are your weird archival finds? On the National Archives of Australia website, I found this digitised WWII-era letter to the Prime Minister complaining about enemy aliens in Australia, which then goes into rant about women smoking. #archives #history 🗃️ 9349
Reposted by Richard ToyeMark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com 1015263
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you've listened to our Lloyd George and Churchill series, you'll enjoy this quiz! If you've not listened yet, you can find Churchill: The Finest Half Hour on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. lnkd.in/emjGtCmJlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 011
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 11/09/2026open.spotify.com/episode/0SqQ...open.spotify.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for Greatness Ep 6Churchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 000
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026actionnetwork.org/petitions/me...actionnetwork.orgMercy for Christa: Stop the Execution of Christa Pike in TennesseePlease sign the petition below asking Governor Bill Lee to do everything within his power to stop Christa's execution. After adding your name, please ask 5 friends to do the same and share widely on ... 001
Reposted by Richard ToyeMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nigel Farage over the years. Was: "Let's deport migrants who arrived illegally in the UK." Then: "Let's deport migrants who arrived legally in the UK." Now: "Let's deport migrants who are buried in the UK." 34619
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ao...youtube.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for Greatness Episode 4: "The swish of the torpedo".YouTube video by Churchill: The Finest Half Hour 010
Reposted by Richard ToyeIan Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I went last year. It was pretty grim, typified by the cheers when a journalist from Middle East Eye - asking a question on Gaza - said two colleagues had been killed the previous week 615761
Reposted by Richard ToyeDr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My latest weekly roundup of reading and listening recommendations, taking in issues of state-building, pan-Asian thought and activism, and religion and politics, among other themes. 🧵 #skystorians🗃️ #lawsky #litacademicbubble.substack.comStop, Look, and Listen #66A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week. 1104
Reposted by Richard ToyeThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social reviews 'Superpower Britain: The 1945 Vision and Why it Failed', by Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.comacademic.oup.comSuperpower Britain: The 1945 Vision and Why it Failed, by Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025; pp. 480. £35).At the start of this important and intriguing—if somewhat frustrating—book, Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart draw attention to a significant but often ove 042
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gov. Ivey: Please respect the jury's decision and stop the execution of Jeffery Lee in Alabama. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/go...actionnetwork.orgGov. Ivey: Please respect the jury's decision and stop the execution of Jeffery Lee in AlabamaJeffery Lee was convicted of killing Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson, and wounding Helen King in 1998. There is no question of his guilt, but the jury that convicted him was persuaded to sentence him ... 000
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 20/08/2026New episode has dropped! open.spotify.com/episode/577T...open.spotify.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for Greatness Ep 3Churchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 010
Reposted by Richard ToyeBarb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is an appalling departure from the post-Watergate mission of the Department of Justice. DOJ, as we once knew it, is no more. Blanche has turned it into Trump‘s private law firm. What a complete disgrace.  1742069668
Reposted by Richard ToyeUniversity of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to @uk.theconversation.com about #CountBinface and "joke" candidates in British elections who highlight serious issues🗳️ theconversation.com/from-count-b...theconversation.comFrom Count Binface to AI Steve: why are we voting for joke candidates?While their antics might make us pay attention to election campaigns, how did we end up with joke candidates as part of our political culture? 012
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New episode has dropped! open.spotify.com/episode/6g4g...open.spotify.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for GreatnessChurchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 000
Reposted by Richard ToyeThe Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📣 Next month we host an online book talk in cooperation with the Melbourne Holocaust Museum Fiona Kelmann will be in conversation with Dr Simon Holloway about her new book Irmgard: The Girl from Dresden, A Memoir of Survival and Legacy buff.ly/7wRZDlF 053
Reposted by Richard ToyeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Britain has skills shortages across the board. Yet the decision about what to preserve as part of post-18 tuition is being left to isolated groups of university managers whose legal duty is to preserve solvency. That's completely mad. www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/08/12/w...hepi.ac.ukWhat the situation at Nottingham tells us about the national picture for Modern Languages and why the sector should pay attention - HEPIThis blog was kindly written by Professor Pierre-Alexis Mével, Professor of Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation at the University of Nottingham. At the time of writing, the University of N... 25127
Reposted by Richard ToyeEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Many years ago, I wrote this blog post about how my studying of film and history at university overlapped and how watching films gave me insights into historical practice. hatfulofhistory.com/2013/12/27/w...hatfulofhistory.comWhy studying film helped me become a better historianWhen I was an undergraduate, I planned to major in film studies, but I eventually switched to a double major in history and politics, keeping film studies as my minor. Although I didn’t keep … 193
Reposted by Richard ToyeThe Magic Lantern Society @magiclanternsoc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Celebrating today's partial eclipse (pr total eclipse for our lucky friends in and around Spain), a splendid demonstration of how it all works, Victorian-style. #MagicLantern 042
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Have you checked out our new series yet? In the latest series of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour, Warren Dockter and I draw on my book "Rivals for Greatness" to explore the long and often turbulent relationship between Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. open.spotify.com/episode/71gG...open.spotify.comSeries 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for GreatnessChurchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 011
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stay the Execution of Daniel Conahan. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...actionnetwork.orgStay the Execution of Daniel ConahanGovernor Ron DeSantis has signed a death warrant for Daniel Conahan, who was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of Richard Montgomery. Please sign this petition urging Governor DeSantis and the Fl... 000
Reposted by Richard ToyeAudry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026why don't we get a binface why do only the brits get a binface 031
Reposted by Richard ToyeUniversity of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"The history of British democracy is also the history of the losers, loners and long-shots whose campaigns reveal what voters find funny, what they find unacceptable, and what they are, in the end, prepared to take seriously" - @richardtoye.bsky.social theconversation.com/count-binfac...theconversation.comCount Binface: why Britain’s ‘joke’ election candidates deserve to be taken seriouslySatirical candidates are part of a longstanding tradition in British politics. 064
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today I launch a new academic discipline - Binnology. #Binface #Clacton #Farage theconversation.com/count-binfac...theconversation.comCount Binface: why Britain’s ‘joke’ election candidates deserve to be taken seriouslySatirical candidates are part of a longstanding tradition in British politics. 48523
Reposted by Richard ToyeGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council electionJoshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP 87130
Reposted by Richard ToyeDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Don't people get sent to prison for this sort of thing? Why is Farage's fiancier so immune to punishment for these felonies? 1112145
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 24/07/2026open.spotify.com/episode/4TDA...open.spotify.comSeries 10: Churchill and the Great RepublicChurchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 010
Reposted by Richard ToyeDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Things are so bad I joined WhatsApp (still don't have a smartphone though, no). In amongst the serious stuff in our 'at risk' chat are some Very Lovely Things. For instance, my colleague who works on the Italian Renaissance shared this photo of the Archivio di Stato di Roma, where she currently is: 215924
Reposted by Richard ToyeDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 03/02/2026📢ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT: A TIME OF MINDING📢 Chris Hoban has been recording all the music he composed as a fellow on the @leverhulme.ac.uk project The Material Culture of Wills! Sign up here to be notified when the album is released: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Photo: Tom Hurley #EarlyModern 🗃️ 2199
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026actionnetwork.org/petitions/fl...actionnetwork.orgFlorida: Don't Execute Ernest Suggs, An Innocent Man on Death RowErnest Suggs was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his friend Pauline Casey. He has been on death row in Florida for more than 30 years. He has always maintained his innocence, and th... 010
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 09/07/2026New episode! #Churchill #FinestHalfHour open.spotify.com/episode/2ZPI...open.spotify.comSeries 9: The Art of Winston Churchill Episode 2Churchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 021
Reposted by Richard ToyeThe Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026📣Out now on #firstview! Kit Kowol @kitkowol.bsky.social and Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social on 'The Management of British MPs’ Postbags and Politician-Voter Relations in the Democratic Age' #Politics #Letters #Communication 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 095
Reposted by Richard ToyeColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I reviewed @garylove.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social's new edited volume Writing Politics in Modern Britain for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. I enjoyed it a lot. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comWhy Read Books When You Have a Mobile Phone?Click on the article title to read more. 095
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Please Grant Darrell Hines A Reprieve of Execution. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/plea...actionnetwork.orgPlease Grant Darrell Hines A Reprieve of ExecutionGiven the horrifying failed execution attempt of Tony Carruthers in May, now is the time for Governor Lee to grant a reprieve to Darrell Hines, who is scheduled for execution in Tennessee on August 13... 000
Reposted by Richard ToyeSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/06/2026David Hockney died. He was one of my favorite artists, someone whose work teaches you things about other people and about paint.nytimes.comDavid Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 316227
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026In 1966, physician Lord Moran published a book - 'Churchill: The Struggle for Survival' - which discussed Churchill's physical health and alleged that he suffered from depression, the so-called 'black dog'. This was controversial, to say the least ... open.spotify.com/episode/3akI...open.spotify.comSeries 8: Up Close and Personal Episode 1Churchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 000
Reposted by Richard ToyeThe Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Happening next week! Don't miss a fascinating free evening talk about the experience of Nazi slave labourers on the Channel Islands Tickets available here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibi...wienerholocaustlibrary.orgExhibition Talk - A Proximity to Violence: What Channel Islands’ labourers experienced in Alderney, by Gilly Carr - The Wiener Holocaust LibraryJoin us for a special presentation by Dr Gilly Carr highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims. 0124
Reposted by Richard ToyeGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...arguably.ukThe quiet collapse of British universitiesOne of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away 13195126
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 11/06/2026imperialglobalexeter.com/2026/06/06/t...imperialglobalexeter.comThis Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global HistoryImage: Visual by Martina Monti, Credit Getty Images. Retrieved from Euroactiv.W Mitchel StuffersAssistant Editor at CIGH Exeter & PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter From E… 000
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Our monthly downloads are up 49%, our weekly downloads up 48%, and our daily downloads up 151%! Why not join all the listeners who are enjoying Churchill: The Finest Half Hour? open.spotify.com/episode/3c3Y... 031
Reposted by Richard ToyeDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Sorry but this is just flat out racism. One of the main things which Refugee Week activities do is break down barriers in communities to help reduce tensions, that's good for everyone. Cancelling funding for Refugee Week doesn't "put British people first" in any way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSt Helens Council withdraws Refugee Week fundingLocally-funded events will still go ahead after the council withdraws government allocated cash. 1219662
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Churchill's relationship with Ireland and Irish politics was complex and controversial. Dr. Warren Dockter and I explore the complexity, controversy - and drama - in this episode of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour. open.spotify.com/episode/6mKA...open.spotify.comSeries 7: Churchill and Ireland Episode 3Churchill: The Finest Half Hour · Episode 010