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Winston Churchill's first wartime broadcast
On 1 October 1939 Winston Churchill gave his first wartime broadcast, on the recently created BBC Home Service. Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered his assessment of the first ...
National Interest on MSN1mon
Debunking Tucker Carlson’s Darryl Cooper Interview
Most of all, his attacks on Sir Winston Churchill. The Timeline Cooper ... brought Churchill into his war cabinet as First ...
BBC10mon
Sir Winston Churchill: The greatest Briton?
Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace ... In 1911 he became First Lord of the Admiralty and oversaw rapid expansion in the naval arms race with Germany.
BBC4mon
1940: Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw mocks Churchill
The Altmark was a supply ship for the Graf Spee. Captain Vian of HMS Cossack was instructed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to persuade the Norwegians to escort the Altmark ...
Daily Mail28d
How Churchill's daughter-in-law, Pamela Harriman, became a sex-charged queen of seduction - whose adventures between the sheets helped defeat Hitler and change the course of ...
By 1997, the British-born aristocrat and daughter-in-law to Winston Churchill, had risen to serve as President Clinton’s handpicked ambassador to France, the first woman in that role.
The Australian16d
Bipolar disorder is crippling, but it has given the world moments of sheer brilliance
Taking charge of the British defence was not any General but Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, the civilian minister for the Royal Navy. Churchill, later to become one of Britain’s ...
The quirky and unexpected hobbies favoured by modern politicians
In September, an exhibition of Monet’s London paintings will open at the Courtauld Gallery, including one, Pont de Londres, ...
The National Interest27d
Winston Churchill and India: Setting the Record Straight
Winston Churchill’s relationship with ... As the eminent historian Lord Roberts explains, Churchill “fundamentally differed from other neo-Darwinians, especially the Fascist ones, is that ...
The Washington Post25d
Robert Harris returns, with the masterly historical novel ‘Precipice’
Dominating those meetings as the war heats up is the first lord of the admiralty, Winston Churchill, at the time a member of Asquith’s party, the Liberals. (A few years later, Churchill will ...
Patriots practice on Winston Churchill’s old stomping grounds in London
A London game is more than just a typical road trip for NFL teams. It’s a chance to learn about local history.
Artnet news10d
South of France, Cap d’Ail,
One of the most important statesmen in world history, Sir Winston Churchill also pursued the ... It was composed circa 1948, when Churchill visited his long-time political friend Lord Beaverbrook, who ...
The Washington Post1d
An immersive account of America’s fierce debate about joining World War II
But as the 2024 election approaches, the populist appeal of American isolationism is stronger than it has been in more than ...