Resources

Andrew Roberts lectures on "The Importance of Churchill for Today" at the Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar on Principles and Politics.

"The medical world and Churchill’s entourage agreed that Sir Winston’s recovery after this fateful episode was spectacular. On 18 August, he presided over a cabinet meeting lasting for nearly three hours. Apparently, none of his close colleagues who knew what had happened could believe he had suffered any new medical problem."

A series of papers and arguments concerning Churchill’s attitude toward integration and unity in Europe in the wake of World War II.

An enquiry into Churchill's health and illnesses. Mainly, his treatment was conventional: "One does not make therapeutic experiments on the Prime Minister."

Churchill’s first piece of published fiction, Man Overboard! appeared in January 1899. Ronald Cohen’s bibliography dates its writing March 1898. In late March or early April, Churchill sent a draft to General Ian Hamilton: “The story I send you as it may amuse you for an hour….”

A colloquium on Churchill’s famous speech at Westminster College, Missouri and its impact on Anglo-American relations throughout the Cold War and beyond.

A contemporary recording of Churchill’s “Unknown Warriors" speech offers a rare opportunity to hear his voice as the world heard it in July 1940.

Antoine Capet, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rouen, explores reactions from Churchill's critics after his famous Iron Curtain speech.

Hillsdale College will host an exhibition of nine original paintings by Winston Churchill from January 30 to March 10. This traveling exhibition, which also includes memorabilia from Churchill's life and times, is organized by the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

All the Churchill recordings ever published—including private recordings—are listed here for the first time by Churchill’s bibliographer.

PBS and ITV have succeeded where many failed. They offer here a Churchill documentary with a minimum of dramatic license, reasonably faithful to history (as we know it). Churchill’s Secret limns the pathos, humor, hope and trauma of a little-known episode: Churchill’s stroke on 23 June 1953, and his miraculous recovery—while for weeks his faithful lieutenants secretly ran the government. To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, the film is worth seeing, and worth going to see.

Episode 8 of "The Wilderness Years" captures a dramatic scene from Churchill’s memoirs. Chamberlain, he wrote, “had scarcely ceased speaking when a strange, prolonged, wailing noise, afterwards to become familiar, broke upon the ear. My wife came into the room braced by the crisis [and] we made our way to the shelter assigned to us, armed with a bottle of brandy and other appropriate medical comforts.” There, to his astonishment, Churchill is cheered by Londoners.