Churchilliana: a Medallion Commemorating the Grand Coalition

Late in 1945, Winston Churchill had the splendid and characteristically generous idea of commemorating his 1940-45 Coalition Government—which had only broken up six months previously—by striking a large bronze medallion. In early 1946 he presented one to every member of that government, as well as to others. In all, there were 136 of these magnificent, four-inch diameter objects, each weighing 8.7 ounces. They were cast at Churchill’s own expense by the foremost manufacturer of such things, Spink & Son, a company founded in 1666.

Churchill polo: “He charges in, neither deft nor graceful, but full of tearing physical energy—and skillful with it too. He bears down opposition by the weight of his dash.”

Offering lessons in "Applied Churchill," Kryske's "Churchill without Blood, Sweat, and Tears" is a useful guide to our use of those principles today.

“Like a beaker of champagne,” Harold Nicolson described My Early Life, and Churchill’s account of his life through 1908 still sparkles over a century later.

Cusic tracks every reference to Churchillian music and song. They range from the marches, ditties and Gilbert & Sullivan Churchill loved to his favorite hymns.

Was it the Conservatives, the BBC, or the press? They all wished Churchill would go away, but an organized conspiracy of silence against him is hard to establish.

Churchillian and historic aspects in the wedding of Harry and Meghan: Perhaps the only account which doesn't mention dresses, celebrities or frocks.

Churchill’s friendship with H.G. Wells spanned forty years, and his enthusiasm for the writer’s work went back to “The Time Machine,” Wells’s first novel, published 1895.

Normandy and Beyond leaves us in awe at Churchill’s linguistic fluidity, clarity of thought, sense of humor, impish mischief, foresight, and ability to deal with “nests of cockatrices.”

An outstanding collection of London and other photographs cast Churchill’s life as an architectural biography.

Who was Winston Churchill? Why, half a century since his death, is he the most quoted historical figure? Scholars know the answers. Do you? Why does it matter?

Attlee’s verdict: “Winston Churchill was one of the greatest men that history records. He was brave, gifted, inexhaustible and indomitable….‘ Genius does what it must. Talent does what it can.’ Energy and poetry really sum him up.”