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Churchill’s Youth
Moments in Time : The Churchills at Colonsay, September 1912
19
Feb
2024
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Churchill’s many voyages aboard HMS Enchantress are relatively little known, although occasionally snippets come out. With the help of Dr. Leigh Knight of Colonsay, we unearthed the hitherto almost unknown account of his 1912 visit to the Hebrides, during fleet manoeuvres in September 1912—and a century-old vision that came true during his visit.
Moments in Time: The Churchills in Criccieth, Wales, September 1913
09
May
2023
By DAVE TURRELL
It is sobering to speculate on the fate of those pictured, the young men especially, and the young women who would watch them go. If it felt like the height of Empire, it was soon to usher in the end of Empire. Within a few months the Byzantine components of interlocking treaties would slam inexorably into place. Churchill and Lloyd George had enormous roles yet to play. But an age was ending, and their days of football in the field would not return.
Churchill on South African Prison Camps, and Other Selective Quoting
12
Aug
2021
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
"The civilized combatant is obliged, at peril of being classed a savage, to avoid unnecessary cruelty to his enemy. Unless there has been unnecessary cruelty, whatever the suffering, there can be no barbarity. If there has been unnecessary cruelty, all who are in any way responsible for it are infected with the taint of inhumanity." —Churchill, 1901.
“I shall be the one to save London”
14
Apr
2017
HMS Cromwell? On the Naming of Warships
22
Dec
2016
Sir Richard Molyneux and Churchill’s Skin Graft
22
Jul
2015
Offices of the Lunacy Commissioners
12
Jun
2015
By RONALD I. COHEN
A colleague writes of an amusing Churchill remark in Oldham (his then-constituency), dated 19 January 1903 in Richard Langworth’s quotation book, Churchill in His Own Words, page 113: "I have always cherished the hope that the removal of the War Office from the dilapidated rabbit warren which they occupy in a street whose very name is Pall Mall would inaugurate a new and brighter era of Administration."