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Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
28
Aug
2020
By JOSHUA WAECHTER
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Alfred von Tirpitz,
Aristotle,
Barbara Tuchman,
Battle of Jutland,
Benjamin Disraeli,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
First World War,
George Callaghan,
H.H. Asquith,
High Seas Fleet,
John Burns,
John Jellicoe,
John Morley,
Joshua Waechter,
Lord Salisbury,
Patrick Buchanan,
Royal Navy,
Triple Entente,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
Great Contemporaries: Philip Sassoon – A Friend at the End of an Era
01
Aug
2020
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Throwback to vanished age, Sassoon served his country in war and peace, and entertained the glitterati at his palatial mansions. He died too young.
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Anthony Eden,
David Lloyd George,
Douglas Haig,
Fred Glueckstein,
Gallipoli,
Gallipoli campaign,
John French,
Kenneth Clark,
Marthe Bibesco,
Philip Sassoon,
Philip Tilden,
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother,
Richard Tauber,
Robert Boothby,
Samuel Hoare,
Siegfried Sassoon,
Stanley Baldwin,
Winston S. Churchill,
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
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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,
How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So Lucky
13
Apr
2020
By JOHN H. MAURER
Historical close calls, during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-21, remind us of the role of illness and chance in the fate of nations and their leaders.
Clare Sheridan: “The nearest thing to a sister that Winston ever had.”
23
Mar
2020
By DAVID STAFFORD
He died in 1965 and Clare followed him five years later. Their relationship has been side-lined or ignored by many biographers more interested in politics than in Churchill’s private life. But the bust made by the “Obstreperous Anarchist” forever stands in the hallway of Chartwell. It is mute testimony to a family friendship that endured through tempestuous times.
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Clare Sheridan,
Dardanelles,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Felix Dzerzhinsky,
Freddie Guest,
Gallipoli,
George Slocombe,
Grigory Zinoviev,
Ian Hamilton,
Independent Labour Party,
Kemal Ataturk,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Leon Trotsky,
Leonie Leslie,
Lev Kamenev,
Moreton Frewen,
Vernon Kell,
Vladimir Lenin,
William Norman Ewer,
William Sheridan,
Winston S. Churchill,
1921: A Watershed Year, Brilliantly Recounted by David Stafford
18
Feb
2020
By WILLIAM J. SHEPHERD
Stafford’s description of this critical year is masterful. In 1921 the former “bold, bad man” of British national life rose above his reputation as a war-mongering opportunist. The picture is of a reflective and vulnerable man of character, strengthened by every reverse—a man of vision and, to a few observers, “a prime minister in the making.” Really good books about Churchill are scarce these days, and deserve full appreciation. This one belongs on any list of the top twenty specialized studies.
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Balfour Declartion,
Cairo Conference,
Chaim Weizmann,
Clare Sheridan,
Clementine Churchill,
David Lloyd George,
David Stafford,
Eddie Marsh,
Ernest Cassel,
F.E. Smith,
Gertrude Bell,
Herbert Lionel Vane-Tempest,
Iraq,
Irish Treaty,
Jordan,
King Faisal,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Marigold Churchill,
Max Beaverbrook,
Mesopotamia,
Palestine,
Singapore,
T.E. Lawrence,
Two-Power Standard,
Washington Naval Treaty,
Winston S. Churchill,
“Raucous Caucus Clamour”: Winston Churchill on the Referendum
17
Dec
2019
By MICHAEL RICHARDS
Churchill offers thoughtful ideas on when representative government may be supplemented by a national vote. Above all, he thought the referendum must be rare. Only eleven times in his long career was there a call for a referendum. Only six times did he support it.
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Archibald Sinclair,
Arthur Balfour,
Charles Coughlan,
Clement Attlee,
constitutionalism,
David Lloyd George,
Devolution,
F.E. Smith,
Free Trade,
George Curzon,
H.H. Asquith,
House of Lords,
Irish Home Rule,
Irish Treaty,
Jan Smuts,
Joseph Chamberlain,
Kevin Theakston,
Parliament Act 1911,
referendum,
Responsible Government,
Rhodesia,
Richard M. Langworth,
Stanley Baldwin,
Tariffs,
Ulster,
Winston S. Churchill,
Women Suffrage,
Churchill at War, Illustrated by Cigarette and Trade Cards
15
Oct
2019
By CYRIL MAZANSKY
The earliest cigarette cards trace their origins to the Crimean War of 1853-56, when smoking rose to the heights of popularity. Originally, cards were plain stiffeners in the cigarette packs. With advances in printing and lithography, it did not take long for the tobacco companies to recognize the marketing potential of illustrated cards.
Mannerheim, Churchill, and the Quandary of Finland in Two World Wars
18
Sep
2019
2
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Mannerheim stepped down as Commander-in-Chief in January 1945 and as Regent-President in March 1946, aged 78. No actions were taken against him by the West for having been Hitler’s ally for three years. Winston Churchill, and every other objective observer, recognized that he was the savior of his country. He acted at a time when Finland was intolerably squeezed between the two most evil and violent totalitarian dictatorships in history.
Abstracts: Vale and Scadding on Churchill’s Episodic Ailments, 1922-65
11
Sep
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
Following previous abstracts, Vale and Scadding now complete their survey of Churchill’s health through his death in 1965. The format of their earlier articles continues. They present the evidence (mainly from diaries and memoirs), offer a chronology based on the official biography, quote press reports, and extensively discuss causal factors. Since technical language is minimal, their articles are readable by non-physicians. The main text is accompanied by vignettes on the relevant people and places.
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.
Glasgow, 1919: “Churchill Rolled the Tanks” – What Really Happened
20
May
2019
3
By GORDON J. BARCLAY
Tanks never appeared at the famous Glasgow riot; troops killed or injured no one, and Churchill’s was a leading voice of moderation among British ministers.