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Personal Matters
Churchill and the Great Smog: Another Example of Artistic License
05
Aug
2022
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill has been depicted as indifferent to the Great Smog or the deaths and illnesses it brought. “In actuality, there’s little evidence for any of these dramatic interpretations, with most newspaper reports from the time mainly focusing on the effects of the fog itself and not the politicians in charge.”
“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote
26
Aug
2021
By Carlos Benito Marìn
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?
07
May
2019
4
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
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
18
May
2018
21
Don’t fall for it: Churchill had no affair with Lady Castlerosse
26
Feb
2018
1
By ANDREW ROBERTS
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.
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