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Curtis Hooper: “A Visual Philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill”
30
Mar
2020
By JULIA WACKER
The series—a collection of twenty-eight original pieces—attempts to depict the many facets of Churchill’s complex character. The series covers Churchill’s early childhood all the way through his second term as prime minister in the 1950s. Diving into both the public and private side of Churchill’s life, the series balances Churchill’s professional years as a soldier and war correspondent, a writer, a rhetorician, and a statesman with his private interests as a painter, aviation enthusiast, horseman, father, and husband. Hooper offers a complete, yet often overlooked, picture of the national and international icon.
Revisiting “Induna”: The Ship that Carried Churchill into Fame
26
Mar
2020
1
By RUPERT SOAMES
"A delightful happenstance came my way in Australia recently, when I was asked if I were aware of the connection between Grafton, New South Wales, and my grandfather, Sir Winston Churchill. I was not, so he took me down to the River Clarence, and showed me the broken hulk of a ship called Induna. She was the coaster that transported young Winston from Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique) to Durban, South Africa after his dramatic escape from the Boers in December 1899."
Clare Sheridan: “The nearest thing to a sister that Winston ever had.”
23
Mar
2020
By DAVID STAFFORD
He died in 1965 and Clare followed him five years later. Their relationship has been side-lined or ignored by many biographers more interested in politics than in Churchill’s private life. But the bust made by the “Obstreperous Anarchist” forever stands in the hallway of Chartwell. It is mute testimony to a family friendship that endured through tempestuous times.
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Clare Sheridan,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Felix Dzerzhinsky,
Freddie Guest,
Gallipoli,
George Slocombe,
Grigory Zinoviev,
Ian Hamilton,
Independent Labour Party,
Kemal Ataturk,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Leon Trotsky,
Leonie Leslie,
Lev Kamenev,
Moreton Frewen,
Vernon Kell,
Vladimir Lenin,
William Norman Ewer,
William Sheridan,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and the Channel Tunnel
18
Mar
2020
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Churchill was an early and steady supporter of a Channel Tunnel, which was first proposed in 1751. For most of his life he joined in lively and almost continuous discussion of “a fixed link with the Continent.” Indeed, during the 1924-1929 Conservative government, Churchill was seen as “the leading political advocate of a tunnel.”
Churchill and Bernard Shaw: A Curious Dichotomy, a Fictitious Exchange
07
Mar
2020
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David Low: The Cartoonist Churchill Loved—Despite Everything
22
Feb
2020
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“Low is the greatest of our modern cartoonists,” wrote Winston Churchill in his delightful essay “Cartoons and Cartoonists.” He praised “the vividness of his political conceptions,” and declared Low a singular artist: “He possesses what few cartoonists have—a grand technique of draughtsmanship. Low is a master of black and white. He is the Charlie Chaplin of caricature, and tragedy and comedy are the same to him.”
Winston Churchill’s Unknown Canon, Part 1: Contributions to Other Works
17
Feb
2020
1
By RONALD I. COHEN
We all benefit from Hillsdale’s twenty-three volumes of The Churchill Documents, Robert Rhodes James’s Complete Speeches and the 332 Churchill articles in the Collected Essays. Vital as these contributions are, they do not capture everything Churchill wrote or said. There is far more. The task I set myself, all those years ago, was to find everything else, too. - Ronald Cohen
How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 2: Sterner Days
22
Dec
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Christmas, 1941: “By our sacrifice…these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance…. And so, in God’s mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.”
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Andrew Cunningham,
Arthur Tedder,
Chequers,
Clement Attlee,
Clementine Churchill,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Elizabeth Nel,
Eric Seal,
Harold Alexander,
John Martin,
Lord Moran,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sarah Churchill,
Stafford Cripps,
Stewart Menzies,
Teheran Conference,
Vic Oliver,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Raucous Caucus Clamour”: Winston Churchill on the Referendum
17
Dec
2019
By MICHAEL RICHARDS
Churchill offers thoughtful ideas on when representative government may be supplemented by a national vote. Above all, he thought the referendum must be rare. Only eleven times in his long career was there a call for a referendum. Only six times did he support it.
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Archibald Sinclair,
Arthur Balfour,
Charles Coughlan,
Clement Attlee,
constitutionalism,
David Lloyd George,
Devolution,
F.E. Smith,
Free Trade,
George Curzon,
H.H. Asquith,
House of Lords,
Irish Home Rule,
Irish Treaty,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Kevin Theakston,
Parliament Act 1911,
referendum,
Responsible Government,
Rhodesia,
Richard M. Langworth,
Stanley Baldwin,
Tariffs,
Ulster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Women Suffrage,
How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 1: Halcyon Days
16
Dec
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Christmas at Chartwell: “No matter how humble the gift, he accepted with surprise and pleasure. ‘For me?’ he'd ask, his eyes lighting up. ‘How very kind!’”
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Anthony Eden,
Boer War,
Clementine Churchill,
Desmond Morton,
Earl of Minto,
Eddie Marsh,
Frederick Lindemann,
Jack Churchill,
John Spencer-Churchill,
King Edward VIII,
Lady Diana Cooper,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Lord Moyne,
Mary SOames,
Peregrine Churchill,
Ralph Wigram,
Redvers Buller,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sarah Churchill,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill: A Million Allied Soldiers to Fight for the White Russians?
21
Nov
2019
Great Contemporaries: Emery Reves, Sales Dept. for the Production Chief
20
Nov
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
It is a tribute to this book, and those who saw it into print, that a memory of two unforgettable spirits is so eloquently presented.