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Churchill in the Nuclear Age
Churchill’s Push for Prefabs: Real “Homes for Heroes”
18
Apr
2023
By NICK BOSANQUET & ANDREW HALDENBY
Churchill was determined to solve the postwar housing shortage with prefabs. His Wartime Coalition government deserved more credit than it received for this extensive reform programme. Churchill avoided the trap he remembered from the end of the First World War: “Ministers should in my view be careful not to raise false hopes, as was done last time, by speeches about homes for heroes.” He remains the only prime minister to have polled 80% approval throughout his term of office.
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 2
08
Feb
2022
The Atomic Bomb and the Special Relationship: Part 1
01
Feb
2022
Churchill and the Presidents: John F. Kennedy – Grave and Urgent Times
18
Jun
2021
Ghost in the Attic (2): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
03
Jun
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
“This essay on importance of relations with Stalin in shaping the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship, is a brief historical gem.” —Nigel Lawson
Ghost in the Attic (1): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
27
May
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.
The Rhetoric of Cold War: Churchill’s 1946 Fulton Speech
06
Jul
2018
By JACOB R. WEAVER
As the postwar world began to take shape, Churchill, as in the 1930s, predicted danger ahead. Initially, his cries fell on deaf ears. Out of power, he watched as the United States’ and his country’s foreign policy drifted towards what he perceived as another disaster—communism’s ascendancy. Then a letter arrived from President Harry Truman, inviting him to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri in March 1946. It was an opportunity for Churchill to shape history once again. Though what came to be known as his “Iron Curtain Speech” received mixed reactions at the time, today, scholars recognize that it laid the foundation of public opinion needed for the West to pursue a vigorous challenge to Soviet hegemony.