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Churchill and the Litigious Lord Alfred: Two Trials and a Sonnet (Part 1)
25
Jun
2020
How Winston Churchill was invited to opine, and Lord Alfred Douglas was affronted by what he saw as an obvious conspiracy with Jewish financiers.
Painting à deux: Churchill’s and Alexander’s Portraits of Lake Como, 1945
25
Jun
2020
1
Churchill rarely painted scene with someone else, and only once with a field marshal. Their Lake Como oils offer a glimpse of friendship and technique.
Great Contemporaries: Sir Harold Alexander, Churchill’s Favorite General
18
Jun
2020
1
Among his generals, Churchill thought Alexander “the best we had.” Alex for his part was ever faithful, saying, “I can’t simply refuse Winston.”
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Alan Brooke,
Andrew Cunningham,
Anzio,
Baltische Landeswehr,
Bernard Montgomery,
Bradley Tolppanen,
Dunkirk,
Dwight Eisenhower,
El Alamein,
Erwin Rommel,
George Patton,
Gothic Line,
Harold Alexander,
Harrow School,
Heinrich Von Vietinghoff,
Latvia,
Mark Clark,
Monte Cassino,
Viscount Gort,
Winston S. Churchill,
Stop this Trashing of Our Monuments — and Our Past
15
Jun
2020
If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.
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Andrew Roberts,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Captain Cook,
Clive of India,
Cultural Revolution,
Earl Haig,
Francis Drake,
Genghis Khan,
Henry Dundas,
Horatio Nelson,
King George III,
L.P. Hartley,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Robert Baden Powell,
Robert Peel,
Shaka,
Tamerlane,
William Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
Back in the News: Richard Burton’s Fraught Relationship with Churchill
11
Jun
2020
3
Burton played a magnificent Churchill in “The Gathering Storm.” He also played to the camera, alternating praise with vitriol depending on his audience.
“The Art of the Possible”: Churchill, South Africa, and Apartheid (Part 2)
11
Jun
2020
A Discussion of Erik Larson’s Scholarship on the Churchills and the London Blitz
07
Jun
2020
1
“The Art of the Possible”: Churchill, South Africa, and Apartheid (1)
04
Jun
2020
Rather than advancing segregation in South Africa, Churchill strove hard for justice, arrayed against the broad prejudices of his time. Part 1: 1902-09
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Apartheid,
Arthur Balfour,
Boer War,
Botswana,
Cape Colony,
Cape Coloureds,
Cecil Rhodes,
East Africa Protectorate,
Eswatini,
Henry Campbell Bannerman,
Ian Hamilton,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Lesotho,
Lord Elgin,
Lord Milner,
Lord Selborne,
Louis Botha,
Martin Gilbert,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Natal,
Orange Free State,
Randolph S. Churchill,
Responsible Government,
South Africa,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zululand,
“What Purpose History?” an Analysis of Churchill and Caesar as Writers of History
02
Jun
2020
Churchill and Caesar both wrote literate war memoirs. Was this special pleading, or was there a higher purpose? For Churchill, there certainly was.
“In Defeat—Defiance.” The Java POWs and a Work of Art and Resistance
29
May
2020
A chapel in Java built by Allied POWs included national symbols, in which Winston Churchill was surreptitiously added under the noses of Japanese guards.
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All Saints Church Jakarta,
Andrew Atholl Duncan,
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
Batavia,
Battle of Java,
Battle of Singapore,
David Hillhouse,
FEPOW,
Frank Williams,
Jakarta,
Java,
John Baxter,
Meg Parkes,
National Memorial Arboretum,
Ronald Williams,
Royal Artillery,
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers,
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve,
Tandjong Priok,
Toc H,
Winston S. Churchill,
Zentsuji,
“Churchill’s Phoney War” – by Graham T. Clews
26
May
2020
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar: Parallels and Inspirations
26
May
2020
“In my mind’s eye I invest him with the robes of Caesar…. The lives of the great are an inspiration to their posterity.” —Lewis Broad
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Battle of Zela,
Birth of Britain,
Caesar’s Commentaries,
Charles Munro,
Cicero,
Clement Attlee,
David Lloyd George,
Emery Reves,
Gallic Wars,
Gallipoli,
H.G. Wells,
Harrow School,
Home Guard,
John Maynard Keynes,
Julius Caesar,
Justin D. Lyons,
Plutarch,
T.E. Lawrence,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,