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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.
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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,
In Defense of Graham Sutherland and his “Infamous” Churchill Portrait
03
Sep
2020
9
By DAVE TURRELL
Today, we need not flinch from the image. Sutherland saw a man behind the legend, reached deep, and gave us the man. The legend needed no portrait.
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Aneurin Bevan,
Anthony Montague Browne,
Charles Moran,
Churchill College,
Clementine Churchill,
Dave Turrell,
David McFall,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Georgy Malenkov,
Grace Hamblin,
Graham Sutherland,
Herbert Gunn,
Jennie Lee,
John Charmley,
King George VI,
Mary SOames,
Max Beaverbrook,
Omdurman,
Shane Leslie,
Somerset Maugham,
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,
Great Contemporaries: Alfred Duff Cooper
18
Aug
2019
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
"I have forfeited a great deal. I have given up an office that I loved, work in which I was deeply interested, and a staff of which any man might be proud. I have given up associations in that work with my colleagues with whom I have maintained for many years the most harmonious relations, not only as colleagues but as friends. I have given up the privilege of serving as lieutenant to a leader whom I still regard with the deepest admiration and affection. I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter; I have retained something which is to me of great value—I can still walk about the world with my head erect." - Duff Cooper, 1938
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Alfred Duff Cooper,
Appeasement,
Archibald Wavell,
Douglas Haig,
Harold Nicolson,
J.L. Garvin,
Lady Diana Cooper,
Leopold Amery,
Max Beaverbrook,
Max Reinhardt,
Munich Pact,
Neville Chamberlain,
Richard Law,
Robert Boothby,
Singapore,
Talleyrand,
The Other Club,
Violet Bonham Carter,
Walter Elliot,
Winston S. Churchill,
How did Churchill Cope with Stress and Anxiety? A Primer.
20
Mar
2019
3
Great Contemporaries: Brendan Bracken
01
Dec
2017
4
By RON CYNEWULF ROBBINS & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
There was no more enigmatic figure in Churchill’s life than Brendan Bracken, who cloaked his birth and upbringing with mystery while hinting broadly that he was the great man’s illegitimate son. It is well-authenticated that close friendship, not errant fatherhood, encompassed their relationship. But Churchill, with characteristic impishness, apparently never gave the direct lie to Bracken’s implied claim. This annoyed Churchill’s wife and peeved his son, Randolph, who spoke satirically of “my brother, the bastard.” To quell the noisome rumor Churchill quipped: “I have looked the matter up, but the dates don’t coincide.”