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“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc
02
Nov
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.
Churchill on the V1: “Mass Effects Overwhelm Detached Sentiment”
27
Oct
2020
Elizabeth Layton in “Darkest Hour”: The Annexe and War Rooms
24
Aug
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Questions on the role of secretary Elizabeth Layton in the 2017 film, and the Annexe where Churchill really ran the wartime government.
“The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” Not WSC.
09
Jul
2020
14
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill never said this: he was far too fastidious to apply such a term generically. He knew his fascists, and identified them more specifically.
What did Winston Churchill mean when he said, “Man is Spirit”?
30
Apr
2020
1
By LARRY P. ARNN
Churchill is interested in the ultimate ground of human freedom. He is the guardian of that freedom, of the right to be fully human: Man is spirit.
Tracking Churchill’s Famous Slogan, “You can always take one with you”
03
Apr
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
I have often wondered however what would have happened if two hundred thousand German storm troops had actually established themselves ashore. The massacre would have been on both sides grim and great. There would have been neither mercy nor quarter. They would have used Terror, and we were prepared to go all lengths. I intended to use the slogan “You can always take one with you.” - Winston Churchill
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,
Which Historical and Contemporary Figures were Churchill’s Inspirations?
16
Mar
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
These are just a few of the classical authors Churchill read in his self-education as a young man. They form an adjunct to the more recent and direct inspirations, the figures of more recent centuries.
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Andrew Roberts,
Aristotle,
Bourke Cockran,
Cicero,
Duke of Marlborough,
Georges Clemenceau,
Great Contemporaries,
Horatio Nelson,
John Morley,
Justin Lyons,
Leo Strauss,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Napoleon,
Paul Rahe,
Plato,
Richard M. Langworth,
Shakespeare,
Socrates,
Thucydides,
War of Spanish Succession,
Winston S. Churchill,
Xenophon,
Winston Churchill’s Stand-up Desk: Vital Equipment at his “Factory”
21
Feb
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Hillsdale was founded thirty years before Churchill’s birth. Its mission was to spread “sound learning” so as to help preserve “the blessings of civil and religious liberty” and “intelligent piety,” sentiments we believe were shared and typified by Churchill’s life’s work.
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,
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,
Did Churchill Order the “Little Ships” to Rescue Soldiers at Dunkirk?
06
Dec
2019
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
It was not a broadcast appeal to the nation. Nothing so vague as that for Winston S. Churchill. It was his order to the Admiralty on 20 May 1940. The Admiralty then formed the Small Vessels Pool, in which private owners registered their craft for the mission and were given routes and charts.