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Personal Matters
“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote
Why invent a quote? Perhaps in the hope that “the specter of Winston will pause to embrace the willful quoter and smoke a cigar with him.”
Was Churchill a White Supremacist?
So deeply implanted is the belief that Churchill was a white supremacist that certain students and faculties accept it without demur.
The Myth of Churchill and Alcohol: A Distortion of the Record
Once and for all, by every definition from the linguistic to the clinical, Winston Churchill was not an alcoholic, nor even an excessive alcohol consumer.
Don’t fall for it: Churchill had no affair with Lady Castlerosse
The allegations that Winston Churchill was unfaithful while on holiday in the South of France in the mid-1930s have been knocking around for eighty years, with nothing substantial to back them up, and, having been researching a biography of Churchill for the past four years, I do not believe it.