Sir Winston Churchill MP
former PM
Biographies
Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire on 30 November 1874, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife, Jennie. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and embarked on a military career which took him to India and Africa. He also began to make a name for himself as […]
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National Sound Archive
The National Sound Archive at the British Library holds various recordings of key Liberal figures.
Related Journal Articles
Churchill’s attitude to Ireland
Review of Paul Bew, Churchill and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Churchill and Lloyd George: Liberal authors on the First World War?
An analysis of Winston Churchill’s and David Lloyd George’s volumes on the First World War
Boris’s Winston
Review of Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014)
Lloyd George and Churchill as war leaders
A comparison of the two great wartime leaders
Friends and allies
Review of Ian Hunter (ed.), Winston and Archie: The Letters of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston S. Churchill (Politico's, 2005).
Concise Churchill
Review of Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Lloyd George and Churchill
Review of Robert Lloyd-George, David & Winston: How a Friendship Changed History (John Murray, 2005).
‘And some have greatness thrust upon then’
Review of Roy Jenkins, Churchill (Macmillan, 2001).
Neville Chamberlain: Policy Wonk
Review of Graham Stewart, Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999).
Churchill, Clement Davies and the Ministry of Education
Examination of the offer of a cabinet position to the Liberal leader Clement Davies in October 1951.
Winston Churchill as a Liberal
Winston Churchill was one of the famous politicians to have held high office in the administrations of two different parties. The text of this article was first delivered as a toast to the University Club of Toronto and a remembrance of the ‘Other Club’ in 1995 by Liberal Senator Jerry S Grafstein QC.
Winston Churchill: Liberal or Tory?
Report of a conference fringe meeting, 9 March 2012, with Sir Alan Beith MP and Professor Martin Pugh, chair: Baroness Maddock.
The two great wartime leaders
Review of Richard Toye, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (Macmillan, 2007).
‘I am a Liberal as much as a Tory’: Winston Churchill and the memory of 1906
Examination of how Churchill frequently summoned up the memories of 1906 to bolster his own position in politics
Churchill reinterpreted
Review of Richard Holmes, In the Footsteps of Churchill (BBC Books, 2005).
Liberals cheer Mr Churchill
Speech: Winston Churchill at the National Liberal Club, 22 July 1943.
Events
Winston Churchill: Tory or Liberal?
“I am an English Liberal. I hate the Tory Party, their men, their words and their methods.” These were Winston Churchill’s own words in 1903. As a Liberal, Churchill held high government office and, along with Lloyd George, was regarded as one of the driving forces of Asquith’s reforming administration. Was Liberalism his true political […]
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