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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Friends, Associates Alice Meynell
Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...
Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
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
Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
EMM 's early treatment of the Great War is enthusiastic: The greatest epic of history had begun.
Moore, Edith Mary. Teddy R.N.D. Hodder and Stoughton.
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The heart of England beat high as of old, to go forth and avenge a violated country...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jan Morris
This time the story begins with Kitchener 's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill , presented as the last imperialist. In it JM appeals to her own...
Publishing Mollie Panter-Downes
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...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
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...
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
Textual Production Eleanor Rathbone
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...
Reception Eleanor Rathbone
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...
Textual Production Dora Russell
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...
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...
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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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...
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 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...

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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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