Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Standard Name: Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Used Form: Winston Churchill
Used Form: Sir Winston Churchill

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politics Laura Ormiston Chant
Later assessments of LOC 's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position
’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press.
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a reactionary form of social purity
’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press.
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which sought to remove...
politics Dora Marsden
In an episode that became famous in suffragette annals,
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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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.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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politics Alison Uttley
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,
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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yet she was...
politics Beatrice Webb
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...
politics Lady Margaret Sackville
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...
Occupation Barbara Cartland
She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook , and by his friends Winston Churchill , F. E. Smith
Occupation Barbara Cartland
BC shared her brothers' strong endorsement of Britain's active role in the Second World War (all three were acquaintanced with Winston Churchill ). She threw herself into war work. Welfare Officers were charged with everything...
Occupation Christopher St John
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.
Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago.
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Literary Setting Muriel Spark
It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.
Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan.
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It is a time, not quite peace and not quite war, between two armistice celebrations...
Literary responses Jan Struther
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Eleanor Rathbone
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
Intertextuality and Influence John Galsworthy
The production directly affected government policy: Winston Churchill (then Home Secretary) saw the play, and in a conversation with JG agreed to apply the punishment of solitary confinement more sparingly, and for shorter periods.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Maya Angelou
On the glamorous idea of touring with a show in Europe, MA writes that her images of London came from Dickens and Winston Churchill , her images of Paris from Guy de Maupassant , and...
Friends, Associates Mary Cholmondeley
According to Percy Lubbock , MC and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed...
Friends, Associates Flora Shaw
Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable.
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27 May-3 June 1940: About 340,000 retreating British, French...

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27 May-3 June 1940

About 340,000 retreating British, French and Belgian soldiers were safely evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk on the French coast.

4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...

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4 June 1940

Winston Churchill made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons .

16 June 1940: Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis,...

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16 June 1940

Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis , Churchill offered the temporary government of France under Paul Reynaud an indissoluble union of Britain and France, in which every British subject would become...

18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.

8 August-31 October 1940: The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern...

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8 August-31 October 1940

The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern England between the German Luftwaffe and the English Royal Air Force Fighter Command .

11 September 1940: Four days after an invasion scare, and with...

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11 September 1940

Four days after an invasion scare, and with the moon on the wane, Churchill broadcast to the British people that if Germany invaded, it would do so in the next two weeks.

14 August 1941: American President F. D. Roosevelt and British...

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14 August 1941

American President F. D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill published the Atlantic Charter, pledging preservation of world freedom.

24 August 1941: Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a broadcast...

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24 August 1941

Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a broadcast speech containing the first public reference to the ongoing holocaust in German-held territories.

6 November 1941: In a memorandum on manpower, Winston Churchill...

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6 November 1941

In a memorandum on manpower, Winston Churchill urged that the existing power to channel women into the industrial labour force be used with greater intensity.

30 May 1942: A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked...

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30 May 1942

A thousand Royal Air Force bombers attacked Cologne in the first of a series of thousand-bomber raids.

21 June 1942: Rommel captured Tobruk from British forces...

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21 June 1942

Rommel captured Tobruk from British forces after fierce house-to-house fighting.

15 April 1943: Prime Minister Winston Churchill first learned...

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15 April 1943

Prime Minister Winston Churchill first learned of the German trials of long-range rocket-driven (V-2) missiles.

28 November-1 December 1943: At the Tehran Conference, the Big Three—Churchill,...

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28 November-1 December 1943

At the Tehran Conference, the Big ThreeChurchill , Roosevelt , and Stalin —met to discuss Allied strategy.

4-11 February 1945: At the Yalta Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt,...

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4-11 February 1945

At the Yalta Conference, Stalin , Roosevelt , and Churchill decided on principles that would shape the world after the end of the Second World War.

16 February 1945: Lady Denman resigned as Honorary Director...

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16 February 1945

Lady Denman resigned as Honorary Director to protest the exclusion of Women's Land Army members from demobilisation benefits extended to members of other war services.

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