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Understanding Churchill
The Churchill Papers: Largest Private Repository of Recent British History
18
Sep
2023
1
By MARTIN GILBERT
“Having read them all and edited most, I can only conclude that the Churchill Papers will provide in the future, as they are already doing, a rich seam of historical gold—the richest in fact outside the Government’s own National Archives, which houses Churchill’s voluminous wartime papers, as well as the papers of his four-year peacetime premiership.”
Alistair Cooke, Churchill at the Time (Part 2): Politics and Principle
08
Sep
2022
By ALISTAIR COOKE KBE
Churchill’s virtues included the acceptance of defeats as necessary to wielding power; a tough but generous relation with rivals in politics, magnanimity toward a defeated enemy; a willingness to experiment; and above all, in the supreme crisis, an absolute refusal to compromise or surrender. From all this, there is powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of him as “the largest human being of our time.”
Alistair Cooke, Churchill at the Time (Part 1): The Liberal Lion
25
Aug
2022
By ALISTAIR COOKE KBE
“My father was a Manchester Liberal. bearing with cheerful stoicism the fact that his wife always voted Conservative….. His youth was spent during what he always said were Winston’s great years, 1906 to 1910, during the memorable Liberal Parliament, when the two great radicals, Lloyd George and Churchill, embarked on the reform of British society.”
Current Contentions: Churchill in the Digital Age of Fable and Myth
16
Apr
2020
By Richard M. Langworth
Churchill, who won a Nobel Prize, and did a few other things, cannot reply. He lies at Bladon in English earth, “which in his finest hour he held inviolate.” He’d love the controversy he stirs, on media he never dreamed of. He once said the vision “of middle-aged gentlemen who are my political opponents being in a state of uproar and fury is really quite exhilarating to me.”
“Blood Toil Tears and Sweat”: Toasting a Great Statesman
10
Feb
2020
By Larry P. Arnn
Churchill loved war. His spirit rose when it came. He fought on battlefields with a mixture of dash and calm courage. He directed wars in cabinet rooms with the moral courage and unflinching nerve that yields the best decisions.
But Churchill loved something else better than he loved war. He loved peace. He loved freedom. He loved governments that protected the rights of their people and operated only with their consent.
Celebrating the completion of the Official Biography of Winston Churchill
30
Oct
2019
Churchill at War, Illustrated by Cigarette and Trade Cards
15
Oct
2019
By CYRIL MAZANSKY
The earliest cigarette cards trace their origins to the Crimean War of 1853-56, when smoking rose to the heights of popularity. Originally, cards were plain stiffeners in the cigarette packs. With advances in printing and lithography, it did not take long for the tobacco companies to recognize the marketing potential of illustrated cards.
Nationalism and Unity: Churchill’s Speech in Holland, 9 May 1946
28
Aug
2019
2
American Principles and Public Policy
30
Apr
2019
By LARRY P. ARNN
Listen to and read Dr. Arnn's speech about Winston Churchill during a recent Hillsdale College National Leadership seminar on Principles and Policy.
Churchill as a Constructive Alternative: Record Attendance at Hillsdale College Seminar, October 4th-7th
30
Oct
2015
2
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Defying the notion that Winston Churchill has little to say to us today, over 500 registrants and 200 students attended a Hillsdale College seminar on the celebrated statesman sponsored by Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives and Churchill Project for the Study of Statesmanship. Numerous participants who have dedicated their lives to Winston Churchill offered erudite remarks at the event, including Minnie Churchill.
CCA I: Winston S. Churchill
22
Jul
2015
What Did Democracy Mean to Winston Churchill?
01
Jul
2015