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Oct 17, 2008 · The poem is remarkably accomplished for a fifteen-year-old and gives an early glimpse of Churchill’s command of language, his sense of history and his impish humour. It was published in The Harrovian, the Harrow School magazine, fifty years later on 10 December 1940, when the “Famous Old Harrovian” had become quite a celebrity.
Aug 30, 2021 · August 30, 2021. McKay (1880-1948) was born and raised in Jamaica. He emigrated to the United States in 1912 to attend college. He became active in radical politics and wrote “If We Must Die” in reaction to race riots that swept America during the 1919 “Red Scare.”
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Oct 9, 2023 · 4 February: John Strange Spencer Churchill born at Phoenix Park, Dublin. 10 April: Churchill family sets up house at 29 St. James’s Place, London. 1882 November: Enters St. George’s School, Ascot. 1884 Summer: Leaves St. George’s and is taught by the Misses Thomson in Brighton. 1885 1 April: Clementine Ogilvy Hozier born in London.
Feb 6, 2013 · Written in 1899 or 1900, when Churchill was a cornet – equivalent to today's second lieutenant – in the 4th Hussars, the 10-verse poem is a tribute to the Empire.
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In the film Stand-Up Guys, a character played by Al Pacino makes a thoughtful remark: “You really die twice. First when the last breath leaves your body, and second when the last person who knew you says your name.” That may be true generally, but it doesn’t apply to Winston Spencer Churchill. Almost half a century since his death, those who knew h...
His name elicits 40 to 50 million browser hits, because today the Internet is where people go. So much of it is so rarely checked that it easily confuses truth with fiction. Yet a recent survey of British schoolchildren revealed that nearly half thought Churchill was a mythical figure, like Sherlock Holmes. This says something about public educatio...
Churchill’s joking asides often give people entirely the wrong impression, causing them to draw false conclusions. Mainly this is because they are quoted out of context, the circumstances unexplained. The late William F. Buckley, Jr.offered an example: Working his way through disputatious bureaucracy from separatists in Delhi, Churchill exclaimed, ...
The real Churchill is a complicated subject, with a 50-year career and masses of documentation. Understanding him takes determination. Alas, a number of people today are determined to believe anything. From playwrights to pundits, politicians to polemicists, they can probably find more pure rubbish about Churchill on the Internet than in all critic...
Here’s a modest rule: Criticize and analyze him by all means. But get it right. Sir Winston recalled “a professor who in his declining hours was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, ‘Verify your quotations.’”9One can only wish Twitter and Facebook users would actually do that. One of the least appreciated periods of his li...
Churchill was unabashedly proud of his country’s history, and of the good Britain, America and the Commonwealth democracies, including India, had accomplished. But he was not sure about the future. A fair description of him would be “optimistic realist”—especially about mankind, the same imperfect being, he declared, presented by science with incre...
Reviewing a book of Churchill calumnies, most of them false or distorted, Peter Baker powerfully argued that Churchill deserves his monuments: None of our historical idols were as unvarnished as the memorials we build to them. The question is: What are they being honored for? Which contributions to history do we celebrate?…. Churchill has been vene...
The subject of those statues and memorials is the one of whom Sir Martin Gilbert wrote: Churchill was indeed a noble spirit, sustained in his long life by a faith in the capacity of man to live in peace, to seek prosperity, and to ward off threats and dangers by his own exertions. His love of country, his sense of fair play, his hopes for the human...
1 Winston S. Churchill (hereinafter WSC), “John Morley,” in Great Contemporaries(1937; London: Leo Cooper, 1990), 61-62. 2 WSC, House of Commons, 22 April 1943, in Richard M. Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself(New York: Rosetta, 2016), 297. 3 WSC, broadcast, London, 10 May 1942, in Churchill by Himself, 347. 4 WSC, The Grand Alliance(London: Cass...
Jul 9, 2020 · Churchill was nearing eighty years of age when a young boy came to his door with a gift of tropical fish. Energetically, the Prime Minister took up the hobby, establishing beautiful tanks at Chequers and Chartwell. Not long before he died, he was discovered alone, gazing into a fish tank. Undetected, a secretary heard him say softly to a Black ...
Jun 18, 2010 · By John F. Burns. June 17, 2010. CAMBRIDGE, England Historians have called it one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in English, and surely one of the greatest ever delivered by an Englishman ...
