Winston Churchill

Churchill and Black Africa

Roland Quinault examines the career, speeches and writings of Churchill for evidence as to whether or not he was racist and patronizing to black peoples.

The Churchill Museum

Phil Reed, Director of the new Churchill Museum, gives a personal insight into the development of the new museum housed in the Cabinet War Rooms, which opens to the public this month.

Churchill the Historian

Winston Churchill wrote history with an eye to his eventual place in it, David Reynolds tells us. His idea of history also inspired his making of it.

Churchill's Faithful Chela

Charles Lysaght strips away some of the many mysteries surrounding Brendan Bracken, Churchill’s staunch but enigmatic supporter, and the founder of this magazine.

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The Most Ruinous Allied Policy of the Second World War

Thomas Fleming's comments on the many calls for 'unconditional surrender'.

Churchill becomes Prime Minister again

Churchill became PM for a second time on October 26th, 1951, only a month away from his 77th birthday.

Churchill's Radio Imposter?

Solving the mystery of the British Prime Minister's wartime recordings.

Low and Churchill

Timothy Benson analyses the evolution of the love-hate relationship between Britain's greatest cartoonist and the outstanding politician of the age.

Winston Churchill and the Wartime Coalition 1940-45

In examining British politics from 1940 to 1945, Kevin Jefferys explains why the man who was widely perceived as winning the war lost the 1945 election.

Churchill and the Revisionists

Andrew Roberts defends Britain's war hero against his detractors, in our Longman/History Today Awards Lecture.

In office May 1940 - July 1945, October 1951 – April 1955

In an initially turbulent career, Churchill, while home secretary (1910-11), used troops against striking miners, and he resigned as first lord of the admiralty after the failed Gallipoli landings. As chancellor of the exchequer (1924-29) he returned Britain to the gold standard. Becoming a staunch opponent of appeasement in the 1930s, Churchill entered the war cabinet in September 1939 and became prime minister in May 1940. He was an energetic, inspiring and imaginative leader, and both his oratory and cultivation of Anglo-American relations were vital to the war effort. Defeated in the general election of 1945 Churchill became prime minister again from 1951 to 1955, when he retired because of ill health. He was knighted in 1953.