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Whatever Happened to Sir Winston’s Chartwell Library?
28
Apr
2022
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Thirty years ago, we made a day-long visit to the Chartwell library. We were booksellers, and had encountered copies of the books Sir Winston’s son had removed. Invariably they contained a small oval label reading: “From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill.” We were anxious to know their origins, and how they fitted into the original scheme of things at Chartwell’s library.
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,
Where France Stood in Churchill’s Geopolitical Landscape (I)
09
Dec
2016
By WILL MORRISEY
Churchill’s understanding of France, and its potential for good and ill, begins with his biography of Marlborough, redolent with his lifetime theme of resisting continental tyrants.