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The Todman Duology: Plus ça Change, The Churchill Narrative Survives
31
Dec
2020
By RAYMOND A. CALLAHAN
Scholarship accumulates and sources multiply, Todman writes. The perspective of Churchill’s memoirs persists—if sometimes heavily qualified.
The Churchillian Wisdom of Professor Paul Addison
28
Feb
2020
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Our grief and loss are deeply felt. Paul was a gentleman scholar: a man of strong convictions, who never let them interfere with his search for truth. Hagiography is fatal. Honesty matters. Those were his cardinal precepts.
Above all, he left a corpus of excellence from which young people will always learn things worth knowing. His work abides, and as Churchill said, a man never dies as long as he is remembered. All who love history will forever remember Paul Addison.
Churchill, Women’s Suffrage, and “Black Friday,” November 1910
07
Aug
2018
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Churchill was not philosophically hostile to the principle of women’s suffrage at any time in the 20th century. He voted for it as early as 1904. His hesitations in 1905-12 arose when militants tried to break up his speeches. He resisted certain measures at certain times for tactical reasons—unlike, say, Asquith, who in 1910-12 opposed the very principle. “Papa supported votes for women,” smiled his daughter Mary, “when he realized how many women would vote for him.”
Irish Matters: “Churchill’s Final View”
04
May
2016
9
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Irish self-determination is something Churchill is alleged to have opposed. The truth is quite different. Readers will do well to understand the nuances.