Cary Library in Houlton will host a streamed lecture from 6-7 p.m. on Monday, March 30, featuring Richard Toye.
Toye is part of the University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities series of speakers. The Center is a public forum designed to introduce students and members of the public to the exploration of the great issues facing humanity today in partnership with the Maine Humanities Council, and also through an agreement with Euro-Arab Foundation Institute.
Toye was born and studied in the United Kingdom, at the universities of Birmingham and Cambridge. He is currently professor of modern history at the University of Exeter. He has written widely on British and international history in the period from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day, and he focuses in particular on political rhetoric. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and in 2007 he won the Times Higher Education magazine’s Young Academic Author of the Year Award for his book “Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness”. His most recent book is “The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches”.
There is an assigned reading for the lecture from Toye, “Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction.”
