Churchill’s Youth

Fresh aspects of Churchill’s reception at Durban and transcripts of his speeches: the story that launched his political career and won him his first seat in Parliament.

What was it really like to watch Churchill win Dundee for the Liberals in 1910? A contemporary reporter, Luigi Barzini, Sr., brings the rollicking scene to life.

Internationally networked and lethal, idea-driven and fanatical, the anarchists seemed to come and go across national borders, settling or moving on with near-impunity.

Winston Churchill filed a dispatch after the Battle of Omdurman, where the Dervish Army of 52,000 was obliterated. His account offers us an early insight into his appreciation for a valiant foe, and the magnanimity this noble spirit expressed throughout his life.

Winston Churchill was famed for his prescience, though of course he liked to emphasize the predictions which turned out to be right. “I always avoid prophesying beforehand,” he said in a Cairo press conference on 1 February 1943, “because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”