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Simon Heffer Reveals the Real “Chips” Channon: Diarist of an Ugly Age
10
Jun
2021
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No major canard is too preposterous for this mini-biography by Hanson.
07
Jun
2021
Ghost in the Attic (2): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
03
Jun
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
“This essay on importance of relations with Stalin in shaping the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship, is a brief historical gem.” —Nigel Lawson
Churchill’s Novel Savrola (Part 2)
31
May
2021
Ghost in the Attic (1): Churchill, the Soviets and the Special Relationship
27
May
2021
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Did Churchill turn somersaults over the Soviets? Yes and with good reason. We understand events better through good historians, and hindsight.
Templer, Kennedy, and the Origin of Churchill’s “Wrung like a Chicken”
24
May
2021
1
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Joseph Kennedy or the French generals? The origins of a famous oratorical flourish, on how Britain turned out to be one tough chicken.
Churchill, Eden, America and the Suez Crisis of 1956
23
May
2021
By ANDREW ROBERTS
If any one event ended imperial Britain, it was Suez, which also saw last significant intervention by Winston Churchill in world affairs.
Winston Churchill and the British Boxing Controversy of 1911
19
May
2021
120 Years On: Did They Really Kill a Boer at Witbank?
19
May
2021
By JOHN HULME
Young Winston 12 decades ago—and a speculation about just how rough his escape became at South Africa’s Witbank colliery.
What Good’s a Monarchy? Churchill’s Case for an Anachronism
12
Apr
2021
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
On Monarchy: “It is natural for Parliaments to talk and for the Crown to shine…. We are never likely to run short of Ministers who can talk.”
Churchill’s Steady Adherence to His 1946 “Iron Curtain” Speech in Fulton
01
Apr
2021
David Charlwood, “Churchill and Eden: Partners Through War and Peace”
31
Mar
2021
By WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD
Eden by Charlwood: “The morning had been golden; the noontime was bronze; and the evening lead. But all were solid, and each was polished until it shone after its fashion.”