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.
[6][7] 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.
In late 2018, he appeared in the documentary Churchill's mistress discussing the fate of Dora, Lady Castlerosse broadcast on Yesterday television.
[11] Toye has also written on Rhetoric[12] and on the birth of modern Britain[13] in the first major study of the post war Attlee government to be published since 1997.
At Exeter he specialises in teaching and researching Churchill and all aspects of party politics during the period of the Third British Empire.