FW: This may be of interest to some of your membersDear all,
Sorry – I thought I was sending my previous message to Allen Packwood only !
With all due apologies for wasting your time,
A. Capet
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
Imperial Son
‘Churchill and Empire,’ by Lawrence James
By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
AUG. 15, 2014
Photo
Churchill in 1910. Credit Photograph from Hulton Archive/Getty Images
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill,” Ronald Reagan said in his first Inaugural
Address, “I did not take the oath I’ve
Dear Mr Heydel,
Many thanks - very informative.
Even better - the BBC website has a video of Emma Soames showing and commenting upon the Fishpond mentioned by David Coombs in the
Radio 4 programme :
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29528472
Two long newspaper articles on Emma
List Members might be interested to learn that the Guest Speaker at the London Conference in 2012, the Mayor of London, Boris
Johnson, has written a book on Churchill, to be released next week :
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston
The free Life of the Day provided by OUP for this Thursday is on :
Churchill, Arabella Spencer [Bella] (1949-2007), festival and charity founder
Accessible for a week on
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html
..
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor Emeritus of
Many thanks for the NPR link.
Any foundation for the Minister-and-Guardsman story in the NPR interview ? Or another of
those spurious Churchill quotations ?
A.C.
From: Chris Dunford
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 4:34 PM
To: churchillchat@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [ChurchillChat]
A new biography of WSC appeared in German two months ago :
Kielinger, Thomas. Winston Churchill : Der späte Held. Eine Biographie. München
: Beck, 2014.
Another Churchill book out this month:
Wilfred Attenborough. Churchill and the 'Black Dog' of Depression : Reassessing the Biographical Evidence of Psychological
Disorder
ISBN 9781137462299
Dear Ms Finnegan,
Thanks for your support - sending information to the List on new Churchill books is very much like sending messages in a bottle
from a raft at sea . . . One never knows whether they will be read - let alone considered as welcome!
There is of course nothing uncommon in this
Dear all,
Another new book - this time, fortunately, a scholarly one with a section on
Churchill as historian :
Brundage, Anthony and Richard Cosgrove. British Historians and National Identity : From Hume to Churchill. London: Pickering
Chatto Publishers, November 2014. 272 pp. Hardback 978-
Dear John,
Fascinating as a piece of social and political history in itself - Many thanks,
though I find it extremely “user-unfriendly” because of the navigation skills
required if one wants to obtain a legible text !
The Arts Newpaper has a photo which I had never seen before :
Prime
Dear Mr Tolppanen,
Very interesting ! And therefore very useful !
Can you send the List a monthly reminder, so that we do not forget to look at
the updates, if any ?
You mention the Mary Soames sale in your entry for 14 December - the staggering
results are on :
Winston Churchill and his War on Poverty
Henry George School of Social Science
Thursday, February 19, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
New York, NY
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winston-churchill-and-his-war-on-poverty-tickets-15609395121
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British
The Oxford DNB currently offers free access to Paul Addison's magnificent entry on WSC and shorter ones of some members of his
family and circle :
http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/shelves/churchill/
The new Churchill Central website also has copious free material on him :
Subscribers might be interested in the article by Andrew Roberts in today's
Sunday Tekegraph :
The death of Winston Churchill was the day the Empire died
Winston Churchill’s funeral 50 years ago gave rise to unprecedented scenes of public mourning - and the conviction that Britain
would never
Good news :
Step by Step / While England Slept,
until now only available second-hand at a high price, has just been reprinted
(£14.99) :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/While-England-Slept-Bloomsbury-Revelations/dp/1474223532/ref=sr_1_3?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1424111877sr=1-3keywords=while+england+slept
England Slept is
the US edition of Arms and the Covenant. This book is Step by Step or at least
it matches the text in the look inside edition.
Tom
Sent from my iPad
On Feb 16, 2015, at 12:22 PM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
churchillchat@googlegroups.com wrote:
Good
For those who watched J. Paxman's BBC programme last night : comments in The
Guardian :
Winston Churchill defended as Paxman calls him ‘ruthless egotist’
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/20/winston-churchill-anniversary-jeremy-paxman
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of
The Daily Mail website (among many others, no doubt), gives a video of D. Cameron's speech at Westminster on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of Churchill's funeral yesterday :
.
Brad
https://winstonchurchillblog.wordpress.com/
https://churchillinnorthamerica.wordpress.com/
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:09 AM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
churchillchat@googlegroups.com wrote:
The Daily Mail website (among many others, no doubt), gives a video of D. Cameron's speech
Dear Rafal,
Many thanks for the link - which I duly followed.
I was intrigued by the allusion to WSC's descendants :
Flowers were laid on the memorial stone commemorating Sir Winston Churchill in the Nave by John Winston Churchill,
great-great-grandson; Iona Pite, great-great-granddaughter;
A very interesting piece on the BBC website on The 10 greatest controversies of
Winston Churchill's career :
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767?ns_mchannel=emailns_source=inxmail_newsletterns_campaign=bbcnewsmagazine_news__ns_linkname=nans_fee=0
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor
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churchillchat@googlegroups.com wrote:
Dear Rafal,
Many thanks for the link - which I duly followed.
I was intrigued by the allusion
How wartime Britain planned to give the US a copy of Magna Carta (with
Churchill's approval) :
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/wartime-britain-planned-us-copy-of-magna-carta
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
-3349
http://christophermbell.ca
On 2015-01-23 9:05 AM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat wrote:
A very interesting piece on the BBC website on The 10 greatest controversies of
Winston Churchill's career :
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29701767?ns_mchannel=emailns_source
Hear ! Hear !
I first thought it was a joke, but it works !
The search facility - by definition not available on the paper version which I
have - will be invaluable.
Let us hope we will shortly have the Companions as well - even more useful for
research !
With warmest thanks for letting us
Dear all,
Yes - in spite of the countless books on Churchill, Churchill's Bestiary
remains to be written . . .
Best,
A.C.
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914' Section
Dear Terry,
No harm done in anglicising Adolf - except that the custom among historians is to anglicise the (first) names of kings, emperors
and popes : perhaps too great an honour for that man.
On a more serious note :
I was struck when recently reading the late Sir Martin's masterpiece, _
. But the gentleman was afraid--even after more
than several decades!
Now I'll have to re-read 'In Search of Churchill' again!
(Ms.) Pat Finnegan
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:01 PM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
churchillchat@googlegroups.com wrote:
Dear Ms Finnegan,
When you write the stories
from my Samsung Galaxy.
Original message
From: 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
Date:07/18/2015 6:03 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: churchillchat@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Re: secret informants in 'In Search of Churchill'
Dear Ms Finnegan,
Thanks to the excellent index
/filmnews.film
Source 7 is William Manchester's The Last Lion, p. 193. I'm away from home and books, but this is apparently the Henry Pelling
reference, and perhaps someone can let us know what it says.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:49 PM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
churchillchat@googlegroups.com
Churchillians who collect editions of his books in all languages may be interested in the first ever French translation (of the
abridged edtion) published earlier this year :
La Guerre du Fleuve : Un récit de la reconquête du Soudan
http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/?GCOI=22510100067930
Free exhibition :
Public and Private: Winston Churchill in Photographs
NPG London, 27 October 2015 - 5 June 2016
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2015/public-and-private-winston-churchill-in-photographs.php?dm_i=ZL4,3R1KH,5CK57L,DI6IQ,1
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of
An international conference held on September 23rd through to September 25th,
2015, at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and at the Invalides War
Museum. The conference is organised by Paris-Sorbonne in association with the
Musée de l’Armée and the Charles de Gaulle Foundation, which
New BBC video :
Sir Winston Churchill archive gets UN protection :
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34984124
With all best wishes to all,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914'
Just seen on the H-Net :
Performance on "The Inimitable Winston Churchill" by Elliot Engel
Joel Lane Museum House
Friday, February 12, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EST)
Raleigh, NC
Dear All,
May I tap your expert knowledge once more ?
I am curently writing a Dictionnaire Churchill for a French publisher.
Earlier today, I was working on the Sandhurst entry, and found a discrepancy
in WSC's rank when he left.
In vol 1 of the OB, Randolph writes :
He passed out 20th in
Dear Don,
As I said to Dr Mather, I cannot at the moment lay my hands on my copy of
Douglas Russell's book.
Could you please tell us the substance of his conclusions ? Who is right -
father or son ?
Best wishes,
A.C.
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offers new
Winston Churchill 'would not become Prime Minister today because his
speaking style would be mocked'
Romola Garai, who stars in new ITV drama about the politician, says his
eccentricities would rule him out in the modern era
To read this Life of the Day complete with a picture of the subject,
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Dear Neil,
Many thanks for this.
Maisky was indeed a fascinating, complex character, with a no less
complicated later life, as magnificently explained in the notes and
introductory texts of Professor Gorodetsky's superb edition of the Diaries.
Interested Churchillians might like to have a
Dear All,
A review of interest was released today on the H-War network (Michigan State
University) :
Simon Read. Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War
Correspondent. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015. 328 pp. $26.99 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-306-82381-7.
Reviewed by Edmund Potter
Dear Cita - and dear all,
“a gold-headed malacca cane from King Edward" OB 2, p.274
With all best wishes,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal
Dear Rafal,
Many thanks - Mary Soames mentions the back garden as one of the features of
the property which so pleased the family, but I had never seen any
photographs of it.
Is the author of the article, Penny Churchill, any relation ?
By the way, S. Buczacki says in Churchill & Chartwell
Dear All,
There are more details on HPG in S. Buczacki’s excellent _Churchill &
Chartwell_ :
No. 27 was bought for £7,000 in August 1946 (p.257) - he has no figures for
No.28, bought the year before
Best wishes to all,
A.C.
==
From: Dave Turrell
Sent: Saturday, February 11,
Dear all,
Renewed thanks for this "old" photograph and for clearing the question of
the "inaccuracy". I was puzzled, finding nothing wrong with the plaque - I
had not thought about the No. 27 / 28 ambiguity !
By the way, the estate agents' site has more photographs of the garden, and
a very
e of interest:
http://christophermbell.ca/blog/churchill-and-life-other-planets-just-discovered
Chris
On 2017-02-16 12:56 PM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat wrote:
In The Guardian today :
"Churchill essay on the possibility of alien life discovered in US
college"
https://www.thegu
Dear Cita,
Whatever the story they will put forward, at least the actor playing
Churchill looks like him - more than can be said of John Lithgow.
Still, nobdy can beat the Albert Finney-Vanessa Redgrave pair in my opinion.
Best,
A.C.
===
From: Cita Stelzer
Sent: Tuesday, February
Dear Richard,
This plaque deserves to be better known. I for one had never heard of it.
When one reads it, it comes as no suprise that Churchill should have had great
respect for Kemal.
Best,
A.C.
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821
List members - whether they understand French or not* - might be interested
in this two-hour-long programme broadcast on French TV last week and
available free on line :
http://www.france2.fr/emissions/secrets-d-histoire/videos/churchill_le_lion_au_coeur_tendre_23-08-2016_1253309
*There are
Dear Lee,
Do you mean Gambon ? I saw a not very good programme with him as Churchill
on British TV in the spring.
Gambon is also well known in GB for his role as Maigret . . .
My favourite Churchill remains Albert Finney - and Vanessa Redgrave was by
far the best Clementine ever, in the
Just heard on French radio that the new “fiver” (five-pound note) with the
effigy of Churchill is legal tender as of today in the UK.
With all best wishes,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
ards, Doug Russell p.s. I even
have a time-worn copy of Monsieur L' Aspirant de Marine Horatio Hornblower
(Librairie Gallimard, 1953)
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Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:31 AM
To: churchillchat@googlegr
Dear All,
I am continuing with the writing of my Dictionnaire Churchill for a Paris
publisher.
Dealing with his readings, I am puzzled by what he writes in The Grand
Alliance (end of Chapter 23, “My meeting with Roosevelt” [Reprint Soc. ed,
p. 343]):
“…Lyttleton…had given me _Captain
Dear All,
Mystery solved !
Thanks to our FH editor and other correspondents : it is now clear that
there was an omnibus edition with the title _Captain Hornblower, R.N._
published before 1941.
Therefore WSC would have been able to read all three Hornblower books in
succcession.
Once
Dear All,
Another "canard" ?
I can only find
"No hour in life is wasted that is spent in the saddle"
in Michael Paterson : Churchill - His Military Life p. 73.
But the book has no footnotes.
Any reliable attribution ?
Nothing of value on the Web, apparently.
With all best wishes,
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CHURCHILL AND THE DARDANELLES
464pp. Oxford University Press. £25 (US $34.95).
Illustration from The Dardanelles: Colour sketches from Gallipoli, 1916, by
Norman Wilkinson
©Norman Wilkinson/The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library
Churchill’s albatross
ERIC GROVE
Dear all,
Reading Jonathan Black's Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the
Present Day (London : Bloomsbury, 2017), I came across the reproduction in
black and white of a watercolour that I had never seen before - and I love
it:
Henry Mayo Bateman, Winston Churchill à la Picasso c.
Dear Rafal,
Many thanks for this link.
The chair of the Royal Society of Literature is singularly ignorant of the
care that Churchill took over punctuation in his books.
Best wishes to all,
Antoine Capet,
Professeur émérite à l'institut d'études anglophones
Université de Rouen
76821
The Independent today has an obituary with a list of the films in which he
played Churchill :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-hardy-actor-a7880481.html
With all best wishes to all,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
Just heard that a new "Churchill film" is due to be shown in French cinemas
from 31 May :
"Churchill", directed by Jonathan Teplitzky with Brian Cox as Churchill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiNCnEZz2w
Any previews in other parts of the world ? Any early comments ?
A.C.
Antoine Capet,
Alex von Tunzelmann, the scriptwriter of the recently released _Churchill_,
explains her approach in The Guardian :
New Churchill book :
Author: Black, Jonathan, 1969-
Title: Winston Churchill in British art, 1900 to the present day : the titan
with many faces.
Place: London Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Date: 2017 Length: xxiii,
287 p. ISBN: 9781472592392 (hbk.)
Best wishes to all,
Professor
Dear John (and in fact, Dear All),
What an excellent idea !
We could begin by using the present Chat List until we find a more formal
home (Finest Hour site ? Hillsdale Churchill site ? Washington site ? - all
are welcome to volunteer !)
For a start, I can announce (for those who fancy the
Dear Richard,
I believe that the website was a temporary one, in 2015, now extinct, on the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death in 1965.
Google gives a false lead :
Bloomsbury Publishing - The Publishers Association
Lee Pollock, who is on vacation, with WiFi problems which bar his access to
the Chat, asked me to broadcast the following message :
The Churchill Central website was indeed created by Bloomsbury Publishing
(which as most of you know has been republishing many of Churchill's works
in print and
Dear John,
I entirely agree that the date was a poor choice.
I am / was in no way involved in the organisation - as a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society, I simply received the information earlier today
and forwarded it to the List.
The Royal Historical Society is not involved, either.
Stoll Lecture 2017: Churchill
"We are excited to announce that the topic of this inaugural lecture is Sir
Winston Churchill and we are delighted to have The Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas
Soames MP speaking about his grandfather. Sir Nicholas will provide both a
historical and personal perspective on
Message from Lee Pollock :
The www.winstonchurchill.org website is the right place to post Churchill
events and creating some alternative would be dilutive. It has by far the
largest global audience, especially now that Churchill Central has been
merged into it. (Note that if you go to
Dear All,
A colleague writes :
I finding it very difficult to trace an origin for the phrase "Action This
Day," employed by the Churchill ministry during WWII. Although I have found
non-Churchillian origins for a great number of wartime things credited to
him, I can't find anything about
Dear All,
If some of you happen to be in Paris or go there before 30 November, I
warmly recommend a play on Churchill and de Gaulle on the eve of the
Normandy Landings :
MEILLEURS ALLIÉS
http://www.theatremontparnasse.com/meilleurs-allies/
With all best wishes,
Professor Antoine CAPET,
Dear All,
Seen today on The Guardian's page on yesterday's Royal Wedding :
Inside St George’s Hall, where the Queen was hosting a lunchtime reception,
there was Pol Roger Brut Reserve non-vintage champagne and a selection of
wines for [. . .] weddings guests to enjoy with canapés and bowl
Dear All,
Seen on the BBC site today :
Austria to shut seven 'political' mosques and expel imams
. . . Some mosques are suspected of having links to Turkish nationalists. In
April images emerged showing children in Turkish army uniforms re-enacting
the World War One Battle of Gallipoli. . .
Dear All,
An American friend has just sent me photocopies of
Cigar Aficionado, vol. 26 no. 4 (June 2018)
Theme Issue : Churchill (with Gary Oldman on the cover)
Lee Pollock is among the contributors.
I thought some of you in the USA might be interested in getting a copy
($6.95).
With all
Dear All,
Today's Guardian has a long article which alludes to _Darkest Hour_ :
Antony Beevor: the greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear
Dear Richard,
Simply magnificent ! You must find a way of including that in your next book,
otherwise it will be lost – which would be a great pity !
A.C.
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
Paris-Match, the well-known French illustrated weekly (originally founded in
imitation of _Life_) has just published a special 100-page fully-illustrated
album without advertisements on Churchill, on the occasion of the release in
France of the film, _Darkest Hour_.
It has several superb
Dear All,
I am glad to announce that my Dictionary has appeared at last - this
Thursday.
Publisher's site :
http://www.editions-perrin.fr/livre/churchill/9782262065355
Amazon UK gives the first pages, notably with Randolph's Preface and the
detailed Table :
A substantial critique of the film in the context of past Churchill movies
and series appeared last Thursday in the New York Review of Books :
"A Star Is Born" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
JANUARY 18, 2018 ISSUE
Excerpts :
. . .
[...]
This year’s cinematic incarnations aren’t bad by those
- published today
Congratulations, Antoine!
Wishing you every success.
Best,
Rafal
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To: churchillchat@googlegroups.com
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Churchill : Le Dictionnaire - pub
Dear all,
A not-very-good article in the Guardian today :
"Winston Churchill's eccentric working habits revealed in rare papers"
Dear John,
I view of the controversy surrounding Lord Moran's "diaries", will Tania
Crasnianski's “Winston Churchill and his Doctor, Lord Moran” be published in
full somewhere ?
With all best wishes,
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
In yesterday's (London) Observer :
Gary Oldman: will Churchill prove to be his finest hour?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/31/gary-oldman-will-churchill-prove-to-be-his-finest-hour?utm_source=esp_medium=Email_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories_term=258815=5885693=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Dear All,
Announced by History Press for release at the end of this month:
-Napier, Stephen. Churchill : Military Genius or Menace? Stroud: History
Press, 2018.
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/churchill/9780750986847/
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor
Dear All,
Yesterday's _Daily Mirror_ ran a story on the President's forthcoming visit
to Blenheim Palace :
Donald Trump visits Blenheim Palace - what is it and why will he love its
link to Churchill?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-visits-blenheim-palace-12865491
With
Sorry, but I cannot imagine even a "liberal" newspaper publishing "opinion
pieces that are not in accord with its own editorial positions".
This Indian official's text is venomous - and the paper knew it and
deliberately published it regardless.
"They hate us", your President correctly
Dear All,
Complementing the review which appeared last year in FH, another was
published a few days ago by the Michigan War Studies Group (Eastern Michigan
University) :
Churchill and the Dardanelles
By Christopher M. Bell
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. xiv, 439. ISBN
Dear Sandy,
See Finest Hour 178, p.46-47, for a review of the book version by Raymond
Callaghan, which concludes :
"it will not be of a very great help to serious students of Churchill's
finest years.
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British Studies
Dear All,
John Keegan's _Winston Churchill: A Life_ has just been published in France
(in French translation) - N°1 this morning in Amazon.Fr sales for books on
the history of the UK :
Dear All,
I read somewhere (I do not remember where) that Churchill did not like
detective novels.
Does one know why ?
In a letter to Clementine of 17 August 1944, he praises _Berlin Hotel_ by
Vicky Baum. Not a 'detective novel' properly speaking, but not far from the
genre.
With all
Seen today :
Astronaut Scott Kelly apologises after quoting Winston Churchill on Twitter
https://www.indy100.com/article/astronaut-scott-kelly-winston-churchill-quote-twitter-8575146
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821
Forthcoming exhibition at the Folger Library :
Churchill's Shakespeare
https://www.folger.edu/exhibitions/churchills-shakespeare?utm_source=wordfly_medium=email_campaign=WhatsOnOctober2018_content=version_A=7660
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British
A long text by a Dundee University scholar on Churchill's legacy in the UK :
Why Churchill still matters
The power of the past and the postponement of the future
https://www.eurozine.com/churchill-still-matters/
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British
Churchill & Brexit again in today's Observer :
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/09/david-lammy-brexit-is-a-betrayal
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor emeritus of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914'
Dear Brad,
Excellent ! Many thanks.
"Churchill was the only one of his four Prime Ministers he called by his
Christian name" : I did not know !
(I will add that in the English version of my Dictionnaire under George VI's
entry . . .)
With all best wishes,
Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Professor
Dear All,
Interesting reference to Churchill and June 1940 by the former Conservative
minister Michael Heseltine :
As I told marchers at last Saturday’s demonstration in London, I dismiss
with contempt the image of us as an island wrapped in a union jack, glorying
in the famous phrase that
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