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A Doctor’s Tale: Lord Moran and Churchill’s Medical History

Jan

2021

By JOHN H. MATHER, MD

How accurate were Churchill’s doctor’s diaries? Lord Moran was a skillful and devoted physician, less fastidious as a recorder of events.

Posted in: Explore, Personal Matters,

Tags: 616, Charles Wilson, Hastings Ismay, John Colville, John H. Mather, Lord Moran, Russell Brain, Thomas Dunhill, Winston S. Churchill, Yalta Conference,

Hearsay Doesn’t Count: The Truth About Churchill’s “Racist” Epithets”

Jul

2020

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Churchill's racial epithets were extremely rare. Most of the few that do exist come from only one source—which leads one to question how reliable it is.

Posted in: Churchill for Today, Truths and Heresies, Understanding Churchill,

Tags: Alfred Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden, D.F. Malan, Desmond Moreton, Dwight Eisenhower, H.L. Mencken, Jacky Fisher, Jan Smuts, John Dill, Lady Randolph Churchill, Leopold Amery, Lord Moran, Lord Randolph Churchill, Maurice Hankey, Montagu Porch, Mussolini, My African Journey, Thomas Birley, Tirthankar Roy, William F. Buckley Jr., William Manchester, Winston S. Churchill,

“A Few Words of My Own”: Thoughts on Completing the Official Biography

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.

Posted in: 2019, Books,

Tags: Clementine Churchill, Enigma, Lord Moran, Martin Gilbert, Merton College Oxford, Michael Wolff, Pamela Lytton, Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill,

How Winston Churchill Spent Christmas, Part 2: Sterner Days

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.”

Posted in: Churchill's Family, Explore,

Tags: 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,

Hamilton’s Churchill: An Obsessive Who Worsened a President’s Illness

Jul

2019

By WARREN F. KIMBALL

Why would Hamilton raise the inconsequential to the significant? With admirers like this, Churchill’s memory needs no enemies.

Posted in: 2019, Books,

Tags: Alan Brooke, Alex Danchev, Anzio, Arthur Bryant, D-Day, Daniel Todman, David Reynolds, Elliott Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Lend Lease, Leo Tolstoy, Lord Moran, Mackenzie King, Nigel Hamilton, Operation Overlord, Teheran Conference, Winston S. Churchill,

Abstracts: Historians Survey Sir Winston’s Health in Old Age

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.

Posted in: Personal Matters, Resources,

Tags: Anthony Eden, Anthony M. Daniels, Anthony Storr, Antoine Capet, Charles Wilson, Clementine Churchill, David Roberts, Emery Reves, Harold Macmillan, Henry "Chips" Channon, J. Allister Vale, Jane Portal, John W. Scadding, Lord Brain, Lord Moran, Mary SOames, R.A. Butler, Winston S. Churchill,

Abstracts: Drs. Vale and Scadding Consider Aspects of Churchill’s Health

Mar

2018

By ANTOINE CAPET

An enquiry into Churchill's health and illnesses. Mainly, his treatment was conventional: "One does not make therapeutic experiments on the Prime Minister."

Posted in: Personal Matters, Resources,

Tags: Allister Vale, Carthage, Lord Moran, Martin Gilbert,