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Andrew Roberts
Why Calgary Needs a Statue of Sir Winston Churchill
03
Feb
2021
By MARK MILKE
The Calgary Churchill statue will celebrate Sir Winston’s prescience in peace, resolution in war, and lifetime quest for liberty and human rights.
The Bumptious Politician’s Guide to Churchill Myths and their Making
24
Dec
2020
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
“The Churchill Myths” is not about Churchill. It is about how politicians the authors don’t like wrap themselves in Churchill mythology.
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.
“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.
Gary Scott Smith on Churchill’s Duty and Destiny, Life, and Faith
03
Oct
2020
By ROBIN BRODHURST
Smith is clear that Churchill was a believer in a faith. And that faith was at the heart of his appeal to the British people in the Second World War.
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Alistair Campbell,
Andrew Roberts,
athens,
Book of Common Prayer,
Brendan Bracken,
Gallipoli,
Gary Scott Smith,
Hensley Henson,
James Welldon,
Jeffrey Fisher,
King James Bible,
Margaret Thatcher,
Nevil Schute,
Robert Blake,
Robin Brodhurst,
Tony Blair,
William Temple,
Winston S. Churchill,
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 of 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.
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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,
Did Churchill order the Little Ships to rescue the soldiers at Dunkirk?
06
Dec
2019
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
It was not a broadcast appeal to the nation. Nothing so vague as that for Winston S. Churchill. It was his order to the Admiralty on 20 May 1940. The Admiralty then formed the Small Vessels Pool, in which private owners registered their craft for the mission and were given routes and charts.
Marlborough: In its pages, Churchill laid the basis of his own greatness
22
Nov
2019
1
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Churchill told the story of his ancestor in beautiful Augustan Age prose, but also discovered new sources and corrected earlier historians’ errors. Mastering foreign language documents, he produced an outstanding work of history as well as literature, one that appealed to an academic as well as to a popular audience. All this came from someone whose father had said: “He has little [claim] to cleverness, to knowledge or any capacity for settled work.”
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Andrew Roberts,
Charles II of Spain,
First Duke of Marlborough,
Franklin Roosevelt,
Glorious Revolution,
Harold Macmillan,
James Roosevelt,
John Churchill,
Louis XIV,
Maurice Ashley,
Napoleon,
National Government,
Stanley Baldwin,
The Other Club,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
War of the Spanish Succession,
William III,
Winston S. Churchill,