Sir Winston Leonard Spencer 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...

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...

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...

Later assessments of LOC 's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position a reactionary form of social purity which sought to remove...

In an episode that became famous in suffragette annals,DM thwarted extreme security measures in order to confront Home Secretary Winston Churchill on the matter of female suffrage at the Empire Hall in Southport.

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...

Her best-known journalism remains her lucid, sensitive reports on the political and physical violence inflicted by the Second World War on Britons' daily lives, but she continued her letters from London until 1984, by which...

Votes for Women carried a piece by BH (originally intended as a letter to the Times) defending male suffrage supporters against attack by Winston Churchill .

David Leavitt writes of the paired novels A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (with an intriguing echo of Churchill on last-ditch military resistance which is aimed at drawing out the importance of...

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...

EMM dedicated this book to her daughter, Edris. It has no paratext; and makes no mention of the fact that its protagonist, one of our civilian soldier boys, is modelled on the author's son Edward Lovell Moore

EMM 's early treatment of the Great War is enthusiastic: The greatest epic of history had begun.The heart of England beat high as of old, to go forth and avenge a violated country...

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

PB edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin : Our New Order—or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Anthony Eden , Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

AB here pays her acknowledgements to Turkish friends and officials as well as English institutions, and also to Winston Churchill 's The Aftermath (1929, last volume of The World Crisis, 1923-9), which she calls...