Richard Toye
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Richard Toye is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Exeter
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

, UK. He was previously a Fellow and Director of Studies at Homerton College, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, from 2002 to 2007.

His book Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness was the winner of the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award in 2007. One of the judges, June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history at Portsmouth University, said: "This is an extremely readable, lively book that explores the complex personal and political relationship between two great male politicians who helped to shape 20th-century Britain. The changing shades and hues of their relationship are documented in fascinating detail."

His most recent book is Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made. Macmillan. 2010.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/Hari-t.html?_r=1&ref=books

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