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Great Contemporaries: Louis Spears, Liaison to the French
05
Jul
2021
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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
Churchill’s Novel Savrola (Part 2)
31
May
2021
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.
120 Years On: Did They Really Kill a Boer at Witbank?
19
May
2021
By JOHN HULME
Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.
What Good’s a Monarchy? Churchill’s Case for an Anachronism
12
Apr
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”
Great Contemporaries: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (Part 2)
25
Mar
2021
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Lady Violet: “He had no doubts about his star. He felt that he had been preserved through many perils in order to fulfil its purpose.”
Great Contemporaries: Violet Bonham Carter (Part 1)
13
Mar
2021
Harold Begbie: “The Man Who Did God for the Westminster Gazette”
11
Mar
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"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
Great Contemporaries: Archibald Sinclair, the Last War Casualty
28
Feb
2021
Great Contemporaries: Harry Hopkins, “Lord Root of the Matter”
25
Feb
2021