Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane , Joseph Conrad , Lloyd George , and Winston Churchill .

The name reflects a panic about national absence of efficiency, a panic aroused by experience in the Second South African War. The club lasted for about five years, meeting at a tavern and numbering among...

AU looked on the election of the post-war socialist government (26 July 1945) as a personal betrayal of the war leader Churchill . As years passed she became increasingly Conservative, yet she was...

UT later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up. Ernest Troubridge, who came from a distinguished naval family, was a friend of the Taylor family and a widower in...

Through these social engagements, KCT came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey , for instance, she probably met Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill ...

The head of the United States Office of War Information called for this movie to be immediately and widely released. Roosevelt , already an admirer of the book, joined in the rapturous reception of the...

Living in London, CSJ became by 1899 secretary to Lady Randolph Churchill and her son Winston . She was at this point also beginning work on her first novel.

It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. It is a time, not quite peace and not quite war, between two armistice celebrations...

Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards.

UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party : Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and...

Her first assignment for this paper was on the celebration of Winston Churchill 's seventieth birthday. Her primary work for it was as a science editor, in which capacity she wrote articles on the ethics...

ER was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour idol Aneurin Bevan for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill . She accused...

This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl , Winston Churchill , David Lloyd George , Robert Cecil

In Spring 1936, ER had published a letter in the Manchester Guardian on the reality, and consequent dangers, of German rearmament and the failings of the Treaty of Versailles. This letter prompted a private...

During ER 's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee (whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused...