Great Contemporaries: Violet Bonham Carter, Lifelong Friend (Part 1)

Violet Asquith, 1906: “I found myself sitting next to this young man who seemed to me quite different from any other young man I had ever met…”

"All Mr. Churchill needs is the direction in his life of a great idea. He is a Saul on the way to Damascus. Let him swing clean away from that road to destruction and he might well become Paul on his way to immortality. This is to say, that to be saved from himself. Mr. Churchill must be carried away by enthusiasm for some great ideal." —Harold Begbie, 1921

In time for the 75th anniversary of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, Nancy Carver describes and memorializes that moment from an American perspective.

Churchill, Woolton wrote privately, “doesn’t seem to understand that nobody else wants rationing any more than he does...”

Sinclair aging: “He did so much and worried so greatly on account of the boys who lost their lives…no wonder that he is now a war casualty.”

Paul Rafferty has followed Churchill’s footsteps through his favorite landscapes in an elegant documentary that has no peer in its field.

Savrola voices Churchill’s fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life.

The Churchill revealed by Nester is a model of statesmanship: prescient and competent, but accompanied by certain errors of strategy.

Neither a travelogue nor a general reader, this is about “people and places,” mostly people, not a comprehensive guide to Churchill’s Britain.

An alarming documentary on “The Social Dilemma” strikes parallels with Churchill’s similar warnings about technological revolution.

The Calgary Churchill statue will celebrate Sir Winston’s prescience in peace, resolution in war, and lifetime quest for liberty and human rights.

Communalization and politicization of food during the Bengal famine widened the chasm in Bengali society along the lines of religion.