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Churchill, Eden, America and the Suez Crisis of 1956
23
May
2021
If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.
Winston Churchill and the British Boxing Controversy of 1911
19
May
2021
120 Years On: Did They Really Kill a Boer at Witbank?
19
May
2021
Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.
What Good’s a Monarchy? Churchill’s Case for an Anachronism
12
Apr
2021
1
On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”
Forster, Appeasement, and Fascism: What Churchill Really Believed
04
Apr
2021
1
The Forster Meeting: Churchill dealt easily with concepts and political ideas. If he had genuinely admired Fascism, he would have said so.
Churchill’s Steady Adherence to His 1946 “Iron Curtain” Speech in Fulton
01
Apr
2021
David Charlwood, “Churchill and Eden: Partners Through War and Peace”
31
Mar
2021
Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz: “A Story of Love and War”
31
Mar
2021
The story of the Churchill, Harriman and Roosevelt daughters at the Yalta Conference was unnoticed until this account by Catherine Katz.
Alan Allport: The War, Nothing but the War, yet Not the Whole War
25
Mar
2021
Alan Allport offers a very fine synthesis of new aspects without repetition, but Churchill’s long shadow still hovers over WW2.
Great Contemporaries: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (Part 2)
25
Mar
2021
Lady Violet: “He had no doubts about his star. He felt that he had been preserved through many perils in order to fulfil its purpose.”
Daylight Savings Time: A Silent Toast to William Willett
14
Mar
2021
“Springing ahead” to Daylight Time, we recall Churchill’s support of Willett, whose “vision and driving power” led to this “great reform.”
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
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