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Great Contemporaries: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (Part 2)
25
Mar
2021
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Lady Violet: “He had no doubts about his star. He felt that he had been preserved through many perils in order to fulfil its purpose.”
Cambridge: “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill,” A Review
14
Mar
2021
3
By ANDREW ROBERTS and ZEWDITU GEBREYOHANES
A forensic examination and point-by-point of a Cambridge University panel on Churchill, race, the British Empire and the Second World War.
Tags:
Abhijit Sarkar,
Amritsar,
Andrew Roberts,
Archibald Wavell,
Arthur Herman,
as Amartya Sen,
Bengal famine,
British Empire,
Christopher Columbus,
Churchill Archives Centre,
Churchill College Cambridge,
Clement Attlee,
Ernest Bevin,
Eugenics,
Holocaust,
Jallianwala Bagh,
John Maynard Keynes,
Lend Lease,
Leo Crowley,
Lord Linlithgow,
Lord Mountbatten,
Max Beaverbrook,
Operation Barbarossa,
Oxford Union,
Reverse Lend-Lease,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sati,
Thuggee,
Tirthankar Roy,
Zareer Masani,
Zewditu Gebreyohanes,
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.
Cancel-Culture: We Expected Better from the National Trust and the BBC
17
Dec
2020
2
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Ahistorical attacks like that of the BBC and National Trust strip away a heroic past. When a nation loses its heroes, something in it dies.
Paul Courtenay 1934-2020: No Better Definition of a Pro
13
Dec
2020
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Paul Courtenay was indispensable, a Churchill encyclopedia. But he'd never say "I told you so." Even if he HAD told us so.
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
“Angel of Deliverance”: Churchill’s Tributes to Joan of Arc
02
Nov
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Despite his encomiums to Joan, Churchill rated Napoleon higher, with Georges Clemenceau a close third—and, a bit farther down, de Gaulle.
Great Contemporaries: Richard Haldane, “Prodigy, Paragon and Philosopher-Statesman”
05
Aug
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
With his many achievements, Haldane stood as warning that the apex of politics, there was no such thing as friendship. Except perhaps with Churchill.
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Albert Einstein,
Andrew Bonar Law,
Andrew Roberts,
Beatrice Webb,
Edward Carson,
Edward Grey,
H.H. Asquith,
Haldane Mission,
Herbert Samuel,
John Morley,
Lord Beaverbrook,
Lord Northcliffe,
Prince Louis of Battenberg,
Richard Burdon Haldane,
Sidney Webb,
Stanley Buckmaster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Stop this Trashing of Our Monuments — and Our Past
15
Jun
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If we allow our monuments and memorials and place-names to be torn down because of our present-day views, it speaks to a pathetic lack of confidence in ourselves.
Tags:
Andrew Roberts,
Battle of Trafalgar,
Captain Cook,
Clive of India,
Cultural Revolution,
Earl Haig,
Francis Drake,
Genghis Khan,
Henry Dundas,
Horatio Nelson,
King George III,
L.P. Hartley,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Robert Baden Powell,
Robert Peel,
Shaka,
Tamerlane,
William Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
Churchill and Influenza: Lessons of Leadership and Courage
13
Apr
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Before Covid-19 leaves our native shores, is there anything that might be learned from Churchillian leadership about our best response to it?
The Terror and Splendor of the Blitz, finely related by Erik Larson
18
Mar
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
The Splendid and the Vile is the story of the London Blitz, from the moment that Winston Churchill became prime minister on 10 May 1940, until the Luftwaffe raid that destroyed the parts of the House of Commons exactly one year later, coincidentally on the same night that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland.
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.
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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,