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Churchill’s Sovereigns: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
09
Sep
2022
By DAVID DILKS
"Our Island no longer holds the same authority or power that it did in the days of Queen Victoria. A vast world towers up around it and after all our victories we could not claim the rank we hold were it not for the respect for our character and good sense... I regard it as the most direct mark of God’s favour we have ever received in my long life that the whole structure of our new-formed Commonwealth has been linked and illuminated by a sparkling presence at its summit." —WSC to The Queen, 1955
Churchill in “Punch”: His Fanciful Hats Helped Fashion His Image
24
Feb
2022
Winston Churchill’s Moral and Philosophical Guides
08
Nov
2021
1
David Charlwood, “Churchill and Eden: Partners Through War and Peace”
31
Mar
2021
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”
Nancy Carver’s Story of the Church That Unites Two Peoples
05
Mar
2021
1100 Titles: An Annotated Bibliography of Works about Churchill
09
Jan
2021
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
All the works concerning Winston S. Churchill since 1905, with annotations on content, quality and links to reviews.
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
Back in the News: Richard Burton’s Fraught Relationship with Churchill
11
Jun
2020
3
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Burton played a magnificent Churchill in “The Gathering Storm.” He also played to the camera, alternating praise with vitriol depending on his audience.
“What Purpose History?” an Analysis of Churchill and Caesar as Writers of History
02
Jun
2020
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
Churchill and Caesar both wrote literate war memoirs. Was this special pleading, or was there a higher purpose? For Churchill, there certainly was.
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar: Parallels and Inspirations
26
May
2020
By JUSTIN D. LYONS
“In my mind’s eye I invest him with the robes of Caesar…. The lives of the great are an inspiration to their posterity.” —Lewis Broad
Tags:
Battle of Zela,
Birth of Britain,
Caesar’s Commentaries,
Charles Munro,
Cicero,
Clement Attlee,
David Lloyd George,
Emery Reves,
Gallic Wars,
Gallipoli,
H.G. Wells,
Harrow School,
Home Guard,
John Maynard Keynes,
Julius Caesar,
Justin D. Lyons,
Plutarch,
T.E. Lawrence,
William Ewart Gladstone,
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.
Tags:
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,
Great Contemporaries: Leopold Amery
24
Jun
2019
1
By BRADLEY TOLPPANEN
Of all those appointed to his cabinet in May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill had known Leo Amery the longest—back to when they were schoolboys. Despite the longevity of their relationship, they were never very close. Rather, as Robert Rhodes James wrote, “there was always a definite restraint, a lack of warmth, a noticeable caution and reserve” between them. Nevertheless, Amery played a notable part in ensuring Churchill’s premiership.