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“A Few Words of My Own”: Thoughts on Completing the Official Biography
30
Dec
2019
By SIR MARTIN GILBERT
Sir Martin’s reflections after finishing the final narrative volume are reprised as Hillsdale completes the final document volume in the Great Biography.
How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 2: Sterner Days
22
Dec
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Christmas, 1941: “By our sacrifice…these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance…. And so, in God’s mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.”
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Andrew Cunningham,
Arthur Tedder,
Chequers,
Clement Attlee,
Clementine Churchill,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Elizabeth Nel,
Eric Seal,
Harold Alexander,
John Martin,
Lord Moran,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sarah Churchill,
Stafford Cripps,
Stewart Menzies,
Teheran Conference,
Vic Oliver,
Winston S. Churchill,
How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 1: Halcyon Days
16
Dec
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Christmas at Chartwell: “No matter how humble the gift, he accepted with surprise and pleasure. ‘For me?’ he'd ask, his eyes lighting up. ‘How very kind!’”
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Anthony Eden,
Boer War,
Clementine Churchill,
Desmond Morton,
Earl of Minto,
Eddie Marsh,
Frederick Lindemann,
Jack Churchill,
John Spencer-Churchill,
King Edward VIII,
Lady Diana Cooper,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Lord Moyne,
Mary SOames,
Peregrine Churchill,
Ralph Wigram,
Redvers Buller,
Richard M. Langworth,
Sarah Churchill,
Winston S. Churchill,
Moulders of Greatness: Winston Churchill and Oscar Nemon
28
Aug
2019
Abstracts: Historians Survey Sir Winston’s Health in Old Age
06
Jun
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Medical historians find no evidence that Churchill suffered from major depression, but his health was subject to many ailments in his final decade.
Blitz Nights in Downing Street: Nora Henty Remembers
18
May
2019
By ROBERT HENTY
Nora Henty, last survivor from Churchill’s wartime staff, had vivid memories of those “dark days and darker nights” when Britain stood alone.
The Importance of Churchill for Today
04
Apr
2019
1
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Andrew Roberts lectures on "The Importance of Churchill for Today" at the Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar on Principles and Politics.
How did Churchill Cope with Stress and Anxiety? A Primer.
20
Mar
2019
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Churchill’s Character: Hardiness, Resilience and Personal Toughness
11
Mar
2019
By JOHN H. MATHER, MD
Speaking of Britain and its Empire in 1941, Winston Churchill said: “We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”1 A few weeks earlier he had advised the boys at Harrow School: “Never give in—never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”2 The image he conveyed is one of hardiness and personal toughness, and it galvanized his countrymen. Yet we rarely give thought to where he found the hardiness and resilience he conveyed.
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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Allen Packwood,
Blanche Dugdale,
Chateau l’Horizon,
Churchill Archives Centre,
Clementine Churchill,
Correlli Barnett,
Doris Lady Castlerosse,
Gwendoline Churchill,
Hazel Lavery,
Kitty Somerset,
Maxine Elliott,
Randolph S. Churchill,
Sir John Colville,
Therese Sickert,
Valentine Castlerosse. Cara Delevigne,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston and Clementine: A Classic Remembrance
12
Feb
2018
4
By THE LADY DIANA COOPER (1892-1986)
In another age when even his marriage is questioned by the ignorant, Lady Diana’s words are worth remembering. Few who knew Clementine and Winston spoke better of it. Little was said about it in their time, she writes,“because it was too happy to be heard of.” Her essay corrected that lapse. It first appeared after Sir Winston’s death in The Atlantic. Her son, Lord Norwich, had not seen it and was pleased at the discovery. I have inserted her charming picture of a Chartwell weekend from her first volume of memoirs.
Missing the Mark: Purnell’s Life of Clementine Churchill
03
Nov
2015
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Sonia Purnell's new book on Clementine Churchill is replete with well established facts masquerading as fresh material, unsubstantiated allegations, and historical inaccuracies. Perhaps the best response to this book is Sir Martin Gilbert's oft repeated remark in the face of dubious information, "Perhaps not!"