Educated at Oxford, Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) served as a professor of Greek language and history at the University of London and as director of studies at the Royal Institute of International ...

Few mysteries in the modern era are as fascinatingly bizarre as that of the Toynbee Tile. Stroll through specific neighborhoods in cities along the East Coast and you’ll come across a colorful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 4—SCRANTON — Mysterious mosaic designs and a message tarred onto streets downtown spur questions. What are they? How were ...

The film Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles* just won the U.S. Documentary Competition Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and so we asked puzzlemaker Eric Harshbarger to give ...

In March 1947, Arnold J. Toynbee appeared on the cover of Time magazine that hailed him as the most provocative historian since Karl Marx. In 1952, he delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the ...

RECONSIDERATIONS (740 pp.)—Arnold J. Toynbee—Oxford ($10). THE INTENT OF TOYNBEE’S HISTORY (224 pp.)—Edifed by Edward T. Gargan —Loyola ($5). Scholars are not a notably generous lot. When they review ...

The 2011 documentary “Resurrect Dead” told the world about the Toynbee Tiles, those mysterious tiles stuck to the streets of Philadelphia and a handful of cities around the world. At the center of the ...

Professor William H. McNeill wrote Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life at the request of Lawrence Toynbee, the historian’s sole surviving child. He has produced a solid and felicitously written, indeed ...

4 Extra Debut. Polly Toynbee explores how the Great War shaped her grandfather, historian Arnold J Toynbee's life and writing. From 2017. Show more Polly Toynbee examines how war profoundly informed ...