Arnold Joseph Toynbee
10 of 12 portraits of Arnold Joseph Toynbee
© estate of Fay Godwin / British Library / National Portrait Gallery, London
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
by Fay Godwin
bromide fibre print, 1974
9 in. x 6 1/2 in. (230 mm x 165 mm)
Purchased, 1980
Photographs Collection
NPG x12951
Sitterback to top
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975), Historian and nephew of Arnold Toynbee. Sitter in 12 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Fay Godwin (1931-2005), Photographer. Artist or producer of 48 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Vadgama, Kusoom (editor), An Indian Portia: Selected Writings of Cornelia Sorabji 1866 to 1954, 2011, p. 26
Events of 1974back to top
Current affairs
28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.Art and science
John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.International
A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.
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