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1889
April 14 birth

1902-07
September 1902-summer 1907 Winchester College

1907-11
October 1907-June 1911 Balliol College, Oxford

1911-12
September-November 1911 Italy on foot
November 1911-August 1912 Greece and Turkey on foot

1912-15
October 1912-c April 1915 fellowship at Balliol
1914 marriage to Rosalind Murray (1890-1967), daughter of the classical scholar Gilbert Murray and his wife Lady Mary Howard of Castle Howard, daughter of George Howard, the 9th Earl of Carlisle; three sons: Antony Harry (1914-39), Philip (1916-81), Lawrence (1922-2002)

1915-19
May 1 1915-1917 Foreign Office, London, propaganda directed at American public opinion; name of department unknown to me; editor, under the direction of Lord Bryce, of the Blue Book published by the British Government on the Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: 1915 (Miscellaneous No. 31, 1916)
May 7 1917-May 1918 Department of Information, Intelligence Bureau, presumably under the Foreign Office, working on Turkish affairs
May-December 1918 Foreign Office, Political Intelligence Department, working on Turkish affairs
December 1918-April 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Member of the Foreign Office section of the British delegation

1919-24
King’s College, University of London, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine Language, Literature and History
January-September 1921 Greece and Turkey, reporting on the Greco-Turkish war for The Manchester Guardian

1924-55
Royal (until 1926 British) Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, Director of Studies and other titles
1946 divorce of Rosalind Murray, marriage to RIIA research assistant, Veronica Boulter (1894-1980)

1969
March coronary

1974
August stroke

1975
October 22 death

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On a page about a life, I’ll mention films and recordings. Toynbee was a frequent broadcaster.

These posts link (or linked) to recordings or film footage of, or broadcasts by, Toynbee:

The Ancient Mediterranean View of Man
Toynbee and Ikeda
Britain and Europe
Toynbee and Ikeda 3
Reith Lectures 1

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The National Sound Archive at the British Library has material. You can search, but not buy or hear, online. I’ll link to other sound archive material when I come across it.

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Susan Morton’s Bibliography, OUP, 1980 has sections called Films and Tape recordings. They beg a few questions, but I’ll show her entries as they stand, adding links.

Under Films:

Arnold Toynbee. Columbia Broadcasting System, 1955. 28 mins, sd., bxw, 16mm. Originally telecast as a special programme in the CBS series “Lamp unto my feet”. Records an interview with Lyman Bryson.

Arnold Toynbee. National Film Broadcasting Company, released by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, 1958. 28 mins, sd. b&w, 16mm. (Wisdom series.) “… talks about the experiences that have influenced his work, describes the quarter century of research and writing that went into his monumental summary of world history, and discusses his philosophy of historical causation”.

Small world: Toynbee, Wylie, Graves. Columbia Broadcasting System, 1960. 28 mins, sd., b&w, 16mm. Arnold Toynbee, Philip Wylie and Robert Graves “present historical explanations of the place of traditional religion and ethics in the modern world, and discuss American power and the cold war”. Host: Eric Sevareid; producers: Edward R. Murrow and others.

Under Tape recordings:

Arnold Toynbee, history, and the hippies. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1969. 43 mins 44 secs. “… conversation with Raghavan Iyer, John Seeley, and Scott Buchanan [Wikipedia has him dying in 1968], about the unlearned lessons of history, the futility of patriotism, and his admiration for the hippies …”

The reluctant death of national sovereignty, by Arnold Toynbee and others. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1972. 27 mins 19 secs. “The importance of establishing a world community is emphasized in Mr Toynbee’s interview with three [unnamed] leaders in business and government, when they explore the development of multinational corporations as a possible trend in the development of world community.”

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Morton mentions one photographic portrait of Toynbee in her section on biographical material, perhaps because it appears in a book: Yousuf Karsh, Portraits of Greatness, Nelson, 1959. According to the National Portrait Gallery, the photograph was taken in 1955.

The Gallery has seven portraits: five photographic prints, including Karsh, a wax medallion and a chalk sketch.

There is no well-known oil portrait. There is one (at least) by his son Lawrence, but the obvious person for the job would have been Simon Elwes, who was related (I believe as cousin) to Toynbee’s close friend Columba Cary-Elwes of Ampleforth and was a major professional portraitist, even after he lost the use of his right hand. One wonders why it was never commissioned, or perhaps it was and has never been reproduced. Simon Elwes is not mentioned in the Toynbee – Cary-Elwes correspondence or by McNeill.

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For Toynbee acted on film, see Toynbee and Young Indiana Jones.

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There are autobiographical asides in many of his writings, and there is important information in the Preface of The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, in Acquaintances and Experiences, in the published correspondence with Columba Cary-Elwes, and in the biography by William McNeill. See this page for a summary of his travels.

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