Commenting on the UK's 2009 Equality Bill, Toynbee wrote that:

McNeill wrote The Rise of the West ( 1965 ) to improve upon Toynbee by showing how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary.

Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages ( 1953 English translation ), following close on Toynbee, as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature.

In 1939 Toynbee wrote, " The challenge of being called upon to create a political world-order, the framework for an economic world-order ... now confronts our Modern Western society.

" Summing up his interpretation, Toynbee wrote, " the Wealth of Nations and the steam-engine ... destroyed the old world and built a new one.

He wrote a dissertation focusing on the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and would return to that subject in his later years.

He wrote about the Kansas City Toynbee Tile and the worldwide Toynbee Tiles mystery in an article published on The Stars website.

:* Arnold J. Toynbee: Toynbee wrote a similar comparative study of the rise and decline of civilizations, A Study of History, somewhat concurrently with Spengler, which was released much later, around the conclusion of World War II.

During the 2005 General Election, with dissatisfaction high among traditional Labour voters, Toynbee wrote several times about the dangers of protest voting, " Giving Blair a bloody nose ".

" At school he wrote " pimply Dylan Thomas " poems, some of which he sent to Philip Toynbee, then lead reviewer at The Observer.

Romilly took up journalism, sending back war news, along with his friend Philip Toynbee, who later wrote his memoirs.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

Toynbee worked for the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office during World War I and served as a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Toynbee expressed some discomfort with this embrace, adding, " I don't suppose the icebergs had much choice about being hugged by Cameron either.

* Note by Professor H. A. R. Gibb ( 1939 ), from Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Part I.

Arnold J. Toynbee, an intelligence officer of the British Foreign Office during World War I, estimated a death toll of 600, 000 from a population of 1, 800, 000 Armenians who lived in Anatolia but excluded most of 1916 and the following years, as Professor Melson writes:

Influential writers who have reached wide audiences include H. G. Wells, Oswald Spengler, Arnold J. Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, Christopher Dawson, and Lewis Mumford.

As an influential opinion shaper, Toynbee was invited to have a private interview with Adolf Hitler in the Reichskanzlei ( Reich Chancellery ) in 1936.

The Toynbees have been prominent in British intellectual society for several generations ( note that this diagram is not a comprehensive Toynbee family tree ):

He has been called a nostalgist and a romantic, with a strong tendency towards snobbery, although his anarchistic streak ensured that he retained the admiration of a surprising number of people whom he would have considered horribly " progressive " or " leftish ", including Francis Wheen who vociferously disagreed with the comments made by Polly Toynbee following his death.

The Toynbees have been prominent in British intellectual society for several generations ( note that this diagram is not a comprehensive Toynbee family tree ):

Stiles claims to have invented a time machine ( which he privately refers to as his Toynbee Convector, although he does not reveal the name of the device to anyone until much later ) which he used to travel forwards in time about a hundred years.

Bradbury likely references Arnold J. Toynbee, who proposed that civilisation must have a challenge to respond to in order to flourish.

It is unknown what, if any, relation these have to the Toynbee tiles found in the streets of several major cities.

Nonetheless Toynbee and Sally continued to have a great deal of contact with the communards, and along with both spouses ' active alcoholism, it frequently caused considerable tension in their marriage.

The Toynbees have been prominent in British intellectual society for several generations ( note that this diagram is not a comprehensive Toynbee family tree ):

An account by the celebrated British historian Toynbee " A Study of History " of the Oxford University Press does refer that the General Kitbuqa ( Ketboga ) was injured during the battle, however his corpse may have fallen into Mameluke hands, he may have been injured as a result of the Mongol troops having killed the horse of Baibars on their left-wing of the Mameluke troops contrary to the practice of military of the day when originating from the steppes.

The episode might have vanished into historical obscurity, except that the students in his road-building gang included Oscar Wilde, Alfred Milner, Hardwicke Rawnsley, William Gershom Collingwood and Arnold Toynbee.

Through Romilly, Toynbee met Jessica Mitford, who became a close friend after Esmond died in WWII.

Toynbee Hall attracted many students, especially from Oxford's Wadham College and, Balliol College, where Toynbee had taught.

It also holds many other schools including The Toynbee Community Sports College, Crestwood College, Quilley School of Engineering, Cherbourg Primary School, Norwood Primary School, The Crescent Primary School and Shakespeare Infants Schooland ' Shakespeare Junior School '.

Ikeda has had dialogues with many people including Arnold J. Toynbee, Linus Pauling, Wangari Maathai, Marianne Pearl, M. S. Swaminathan, Roberto Baggio, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Rotblat, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Norton, Betty Williams ( nobel laureate ), Ba Jin, and Rosa Parks.

Toynbee worked for many years at The Guardian before joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor ( 1988 – 1995 ).

In October 2010 Toynbee was criticised for an article in The Guardian in which she said the government's benefits changes would drive many poor people out of London and could be seen as a " final solution " for their situation.

Historians generally accept the comparison of particular institutions ( banking, women's rights, ethnic identities ) in different societies, but since the hostile reaction to Toynbee in the 1950s, generally do not pay much attention to sweeping comparative studies that cover wide swaths of the world over many centuries.

" Toynbee suggested a differentiation between competition in production on the one hand, and competition in the distribution of goods on the other: [...] the struggle of men to outvie one another in production is beneficial to the community ; their struggle over the division of the joint produce is not.

* Polly Toynbee — journalist, writer, and columnist for The Guardian ( 1998 —)

His lectures on the history of the Industrial Revolution in 18th and 19th century Britain proved widely influential ; in fact, Toynbee coined, or at least effectively popularised, the term " Industrial Revolution " in the Anglophone world — in Germany and elsewhere it had been brought into circulation earlier by Friedrich Engels, also under the impression of the industrial changes in Britain.

The radical idea behind Toynbee Hall that became the basis for settlement houses throughout England and the United States ( e. g. Hull House ) was that graduates would undertake social work in the deprived areas of towns and cities and learn something of what it was like to experience poverty — in the words of Samuel Barnett, ' to learn as much as to teach ; to receive as much as to give '.

Toynbee was convinced of Hitler's sincerity, and endorsed Hitler's message in a confidential memorandum for the British prime minister and foreign secretary.

Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.

Toynbee concludes that the conquest of the world by elder branch of the House of Achaemenes had been achieved by the valor of the Kuru and Kamboja Nomad reinforcements, hence as a commemoration, the elder branch of the House had named all their great princes from Cyrus-I onwards, alternately, as Cyrus ( Kurosh / Kuru ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya / Kamboja ).

A Study of History is the 12-volume magnum opus of British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, finished in 1961, in which the author traces the development and decay of all of the major world civilizations in the historical record.

Toynbee applies his model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration.

Toynbee argues two possibilities: they might all merge with Western Civilization, or Western civilization might develop a ' Universal State ' after its ' Time of Troubles ', decay, and die.

* Master site for Toynbee tiles ( archived on Wayback Machine ), includes list of all known tiles, by city, as of 2003

Toynbee concludes that the conquest of the world by elder branch of the House of Achaemenes had been achieved by the valor of the Kuru and Kamboja Nomad reinforcements, hence as a commemoration, the elder branch of the House had named all their great princes from Cyrus-I onwards, alternately, as Cyrus ( Kurosh / Kuru ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya / Kamboja ).

Toynbee Hall is a building in Tower Hamlets, East London which is the home of a charity working to bridge the gap between people of all social and financial backgrounds, with a focus on eradicating poverty and promoting social inclusion.

" In response to the episode, Boris Johnson, at the time a Conservative MP and journalist who had been severely criticised by Toynbee, rejected any association with Toynbee's views, writing that she " incarnates all the nannying, high-taxing, high-spending schoolmarminess of Blair's Britain.