Winston Churchill

From luxury liners to troopships: Roland Quinault examines the close relationship between the Cunard line and Winston Churchill.

Fifty years on from Winston Churchill’s death, Chris Wrigley surveys the literature available, highlighting key works and lesser-known titles.

The former prime minister made his final appearance at Parliament on 28 July 1964.

Drawing on letters and diaries written when her husband was a close associate of Sir Winston's, Lucy Masterman offers a portrait of him in his early Parliamentary years.

A continuation of Lucy Masterman’s recollections of Sir Winston Churchill as a member of the Liberal Governments before the First World War.

Churchill and Hitler painted scenes of the Western Front while in remarkably close proximity to one another.

As Home Secretary in 1911 Winston Churchill intervened in a debate about Britain’s role in a future European conflict. His observations were remarkably prescient and, had they been implemented, might have shortened the First World War, says Allan Mallinson.

Only ten years ago, Trieste seemed likely to become the Sarajevo of a Third World War. Here J. Garston, a military eye-witness, describes how, thanks to a combination of tact and firmness, an apparently impossible problem was for the time being solved.

Almost 50 years after his death, Churchill continues to fascinate historians, says Roland Quinault.

John Colville's personal appreciation of Sir Winston’s work and character