Churchill’s grandson Nicholas Soames warns Brexit will change Britain “beyond all recognition”
The Tory grandee says the EU “rose like a phoenix” from the ashes of war.
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Winston Churchill was a statesman, writer and the prime minister who led the United Kingdom to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative prime minister twice, from 1940 to 1945 (when he was defeated in the general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955. In his long political career beginning in 1901 Churchill, born in 1874, was for a time a Liberal MP and served as chancellor, home secretary and secretary of state for war. Find pieces from the archive, comment and analysis related to Churchill here.
Why are we asking which way Churchill would have voted in the EU referendum?
Summoning Tory ghosts, Toby Young’s school climbdown and Chatsworth’s shabby show.
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Churchill’s Secret is fine, I suppose – but I wonder why it was made
I couldn't fathom the purpose of this dollop of heritage television, so ivy-clad it'll soon be available on DVD from…
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Simon Schama’s The Face of Britain shows the portrait Churchill wanted destroyed
Without even looking at Sutherland’s portrait, Churchill decreed it “a remarkable example of modern art”, cue much sycophantic laughter from…
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Standing at Churchill’s bedside, a teacher’s first lesson and the joy of Santi Cazorla
I’ve just been round Chartwell again. It’s as wonderful as ever – the terraces, the gardens, the ground falling steeply away…
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An exercise in nostalgia – Jeremy Paxman’s Churchill: the Nation’s Farewell
Churchill: the Nation's Farewell and Modern Times: the Vikings Are Coming turn to life old and new.
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Winston Churchill in the New Statesman archive
A pre-war interview, “Should we hang Mr Churchill?” and how a wartime cabinet colleague fell under the Prime Minister's spell.
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Simon Heffer: Why it’s time to debunk the Churchill myth
Our unquestioning idolatry of Winston Churchill prevents a true understanding of his life and career.
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In this week’s magazine | The Churchill Myth
A first look at this week's issue.
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The Churchill Factor: “One man who made history” by another who just makes it up
Reading Johnson’s The Churchill Factor is like “being harangued for hours by Bertie Wooster” writes Richard J Evans.
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Squashed by two fat ladies, Churchill’s choice of oak and “Crinks” the lost Liberal
Notes by the former Gardeners’ Question Time chairman Stefan Buczacki.
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Winston Churchill interviewed in 1939: “The British people would rather go down fighting”
In January 1939, as Germany and Russia rearmed, Kingsley Martin, the editor of the New Statesman, spoke to the former…
ByShould we hang Mr Churchill or not?
In 1926, when Winston Churchill was chancellor, miners held a strike to demand better work conditions. Churchill’s response – sending…
ByWhat Cameron and Clegg could learn from Churchill and Lloyd George
The People’s Budget of 1909 introduced an array of unprecedented measures to tackle poverty and inequality. Its stated ambition was…
ByWhat Churchill really thought about first-past-the-post
The words that Cameron and John Reid ignored today.
ByWhy the cult of Churchill lingers on
The historical inaccuracies in The King's Speech are a sign of cynical populism
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