Nigel West visited the National Churchill Libray and Center a discussion of his new book, Churchill’s Spy Files, about the wartime prime minister’s relationship with MI5, Britain’s domestic security service.
Washington, D.C. Since opening in 2016, The National Churchill Library and Center (NCLC) at The George Washington University (GW) has established itself as an important part of the GW community and the broader world of Churchill scholarship and studies. As the NCLC moves into its next stage, Michael F. Bishop has stepped down as Director of the NCLC and Executive Director of The International Churchill Society (ICS).
GW and ICS will commence a comprehensive international search for a suitable replacement to carry the NCLC through its next stage of growth and development and to maintain the ICS position as the leading Churchill member organization worldwide.
Opening remarks by Jennie Churchill for the ‘Churchill’s Shakespeare’ exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
My great grandfather first visited the United States in 1895, just before his twentieth birthday.
At that time, he did not like your press or your currency but he did love your hospitality.
That President was William McKinley.
Famously, Churchill is rightly credited with developing the modern special relationship between our two countries.
Given that he was himself the product of an Anglo-American special relationship this was not only a strategic necessity but a natural evolution.
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The Churchill Archive contains more than 800,000 pages of original documents produced during Sir Winston Churchill’s lifetime. These documents range from top-secret telegrams to photographs and newspaper reports, from private letters to annotated versions of speeches. This iconic collection is internationally recognised as a cultural treasure and has been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register.
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Author Jonathan Dudley recounts visiting Chartwell as a child in Winston, Churchill and Me – a memoir of childhood 1944-1950. Get your copy at Amazon.com here.
The much-anticipated film Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill will be officially released to theatres on 22 November 2017. Attendees of the 34th International Churchill Conference will be treated to an exclusive preview screening during the conference on 10-12 October 2017 in New York City.
Darkest Hour portrays the early first premiership of Winston Churchill in the spring of 1940. France and the low countries were collapsing and the British Empire was left on its own to face the Nazi threat. This exclusive screening will take place on the evening of the first day of the conference following a reception at the Essex House Hotel.
Get your copy of the The International Churchill Society’s The Churchill Companion: A Concise Guide to the Life & Times of Winston S. Churchill.
This handy, pocket guide was originally compiled by the late David Hatter, but the editing of this edition was completed by Finest Hour editor emeritus Richard Langworth CBE, with the able assistance of many Churchill experts*.
The Churchill Companion offers twenty-eight categories of ready-reference information on the life and times of Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) for students, scholars and researchers, together with Internet references for further reference.
The Churchill Companion begins with a 100-year Timeline of Churchill’s life from his birth in 1874 to the death of his wife Clementine in 1977. Subsequent chapters list Churchill’s books; recommended books about him; his BBC broadcasts from 1938 to 1945; dramatic productions in film and television; elections fought by Churchill; the family tree; leading articles in the journal Finest Hour; the 1965 funeral service; a glossary of Parliamentary and political terms; British governments, sovereigns and prime ministers; Churchill’s honors, orders, decorations and medals; his favorite hotels; his military commissions; a military glossary, leading Churchill myths; government offices held; British political parties; Churchill residences and holiday accommodations; Parliamentary, personal and private secretaries; the British nobility; World War II summit conferences; all Churchill’s race horses; his travel by sea; his travels in North America, his travels in World War II, and the Visitors Book at Chartwell.
For the first time, the international Churchill photo exhibition Churchill’s Finest Hour, 1940-45 will be on show in Portugal.
The exhibition is produced by Niels Bjerre from Copenhagen, Denmark. Bjerre has been interested in Churchill’s life since the early 1990´s. It was his visit to the Churchill War Rooms in London in 1987 gave him the inspiration to create the photo exhibition of the “Greatest Briton”.
‘Like many other countries which were occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War we Danes see Winston Churchill as the one who saved the free world. He succeeded in kindling the spirit of the British people and also everyone who wanted to take a stand against dictatorship! Here is this man who comes into history and gives the inspiration of leadership and charts the way for the people to go. I was also so lucky to know Churchill’s daughter Lady Soames (1922-2014) over many years. She always showed interest in what other “Churchillians” were doing around the world’, says Niels Bjerre.
Sen. John Danforth receives the Churchill Medal for Leadership. Photo by Bill Greenblatt, UPI.
On the 8th of June 2017, Dr. Benjamin Akande, President of Westminster College, presented the Winston Churchill Medal for Leadership to former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations Jack Danforth. The presentation was held at an evening dinner event at the Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri. Westminster College is the historic location of Winston Churchill’s famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech which was given in 1946. The speech is considered the beginning of the ‘Cold War’ between the Soviet Union and the West.
— Excerpt from Sen. John C. Danforth’s acceptance remarks.
HM Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ascot 2010 horse race meeting.
Sixty-five years on, we now know that the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth have in this Second Elizabethan Age enjoyed the greatest period of prosperity in their history and a much more peaceful time than during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
From her earliest days on the throne at age twenty-five, Her Majesty pledged faithfully to follow her late father’s example “of service to his Peoples and the preservation of Constitutional Government.” This she has done impeccably for six and a half decades. We saw it again only this May when, at ninety-one, Her Majesty travelled to Manchester to pay hospital visits to the victims of a terrorist attack.
HM Queen Elizabeth II’s actual date of birth is 21 April, but her official birthday is generally celebrated in the United Kingdom on the second Saturday in June and throughout the Commonwealth on various other dates.
The 91st birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II seems to be a good time to investigate what this remarkable woman means to Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the world, and why. For Chinese people, who have not had an hereditary Head of State since 1911, the whole concept of a crown and throne might seem absurdly anachronistic, but somehow it works for Britain and the fifteen other countries of which she is queen.
The fact that The Queen is in good health, and even as a nonagenarian carries out over three hundred public engagements per year, is remarkable. Her father King George VI died at the age of 56 but her mother was 101 when she died, and their daughter shows few signs of slowing down in the role. The commendable respect that the Chinese traditionally show to older and more experienced people is not always displayed in Britain, but it certainly is towards The Queen, who is universally admired, even by republicans who politically do not support the monarchy as an institution, such as the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.