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REVIEW: ‘The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy’
Alan Saltman, Chamberlain and Churchill: The Antagonists Who Saved Democracy (United States: WG Hobart Publishers, 2025). ‘Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill between them saved the country. Neither statesman would have achieved our salvation without the other,’ Conservative MP Patrick Donner once commented. With this new study, Alan Saltman explores the relationship between Chamberlain and Churchill…
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REVIEW: ‘Churchill’s D-Day’
Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood, Churchill’s D-Day: The Inside Story (London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 2024). Stripping back the layers of hindsight, Richard Dannatt and Allen Packwood provide a fascinating insight into Winston Churchill’s vital role in the planning, preparations, and execution of D-Day, 6 June 1944, codenamed Operation Overlord. Much of the modern history produced…
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REVIEW: ‘Churchill’s Citadel’
Katherine Carter, Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm (London: Yale University Press, 2024) RRP: £20.00. Despite the many studies on the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill, Katherine Carter demonstrates with this fascinating new book that there is still much to explore about the life of Britain’s greatest statesman. In this…
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Officially Dr Clark!!
Dr Elliot Clark writes, ‘I am thrilled to announce that I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the viva voce examination and passed with no corrections. ‘Embarking on my academic journey as an undergraduate student seven years ago I never thought I would achieve what I have today. This success is widely thanks to the…
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REVIEW: ‘Churchill as Home Secretary’
Charles Stephenson, Churchill as Home Secretary: Suffragettes, Strikes and Social Reform 1910-1911 (Great Britain: Pen and Sword History, 2023). RRP: £25.00 In the extensive and vast study of Sir Winston Churchill, Churchill’s contribution as Home Secretary has been largely overlooked by historians. In this recently released study, Charles Stephenson delves into this lesser-known aspect of…
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Clementine Churchill: In the Battle for Victory
This is a section of the talk presented by Elliot Clark for the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre on May 18th 2023. The event was hosted by Dr Bethany Gaunt. In Britain’s hour of need, Winston Churchill became the nation’s wartime Prime Minister on May 10th, 1940, with his wife Clementine’s role also now intensifying.…
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REVIEW: ‘The Women Behind The Few’
Sarah-Louise Miller, The Women Behind The Few: The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence during the Second World War (London: Biteback Publishing, 2023). RRP: £25.00. In a speech to the House of Commons on August 20th 1940, Winston Churchill famously said “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so…
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A Week in the Archives
Walking into an archive can only be described as descending on an Aladdin’s Cave of primary material with each file containing hidden stories from the past. For my recent research trip, I went to both the Churchill Archives Centre and Cambridge University Library. Although this was not my first research trip, each time I visit…
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REVIEW: ‘No Peace With Hitler’
Alan I. Saltman, No Peace with Hitler: Why Churchill chose to fight WWII alone rather than negotiate with Germany (United States: WG Hobart Publishers, 2022). RRP: $35.99 On 10 May 1940, Winston Churchill became Britain’s Wartime Prime Minister writing that, ‘…all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this…
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Mary Soames: 100 years since Birth
Former Prime Minister, David Cameron, remarked that Lady Mary Soames (née Churchill) was ‘an eyewitness to some of the most important moments in our recent history.’ This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mary Soames. Born on September 15th, 1922, Mary was the fifth and youngest daughter of Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Sir…
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