Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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

Connections

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Violence Mary Gawthorpe
MG , who was involved with Dora Marsden in impeding Winston Churchill 's election rallies in Southport, received grave internal injuries when she was struck by one of the stewards.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge.
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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Phyllis Bottome
In this novel, which is written in the form of a diary, PB reiterates her praise for Churchill . Her narrator asserts that Churchill is England! and also refers to Roosevelt as that man of...
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Ann Bridge
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...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Features Rebecca West
Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane , Joseph Conrad , Lloyd George , and Winston Churchill .
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.
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Reception Sybille Bedford
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...
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...
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...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
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 .
Willis, Chris. Beatrice Harraden—Suffragette Writer. http://replay.web.archive.org/20071209111819/http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/Harraden.htm.
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...

Timeline

30 November 1874: Winston Churchill, British statesman and...

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30 November 1874

Winston Churchill , British statesman and war leader, was born in Blenheim Palace at Woodstock, where his mother was attending a dance.

20 October 1909: Helen Alexander Archdale, a leading Scottish...

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20 October 1909

Helen Alexander Archdale , a leading Scottish WSPU member, with Adela Pankhurst and three others, went on hunger strike in prison after arrest for causing a disturbance in Dundee at a meeting featuring Winston Churchill .

18 November 1910: A Women's Social and Political Union deputation...

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18 November 1910

A Women's Social and Political Union deputation protesting against Government inaction on the Conciliation Bill was attacked by police at the House of Commons and 119 were arrested; the day became known as Black Friday.

25 April-19 December 1915: The Gallipoli Campaign was fought by Britain...

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25 April-19 December 1915

The Gallipoli Campaign was fought by Britain and its allies to secure the passage of ships through the Dardanelles; since Turkey had allied itself with Germany, the intention was to attack Constantinople.

February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...

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February 1916

Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.

1919: The Liberator, a Black US journal, first...

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1919

The Liberator, a Black US journal, first published If We Must Die, a poem of furious defiance by Claude McKay , an immigrant from Jamaica.

June 1920: The British Communist Party was founded—in...

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June 1920

The British Communist Party was founded—in a year when socialism was militant in Britain, and when Churchill sent tanks against Communists in Glasgow as well as in Poland.

Later 1922: Thirty-one women candidates sought office...

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Later 1922

Thirty-one women candidates sought office during the general election campaign, but none were elected to parliament except the sitting members Lady Astor and Margaret Wintringham .

1923: The first six volumes of Winston Churchill's...

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1923

The first six volumes of Winston Churchill 's The World Crisis 1911-1918 were published.

6 November 1924: Winston Churchill, having been re-elected...

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6 November 1924

Winston Churchill , having been re-elected to parliament, and was appointed to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...

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26 May 1926

The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords .

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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By October 1926

The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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as her biographer puts it.

25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .

10 May 1940: Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain...

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10 May 1940

Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister, heading a Coalition government which was designed to submerge party differences in the joint effort to defeat Hitler.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

Texts

Schama, Simon, and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. “Foreword”. We shall fight on the beaches, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer et al. Our New Order—or Hitler’s?. Editor Bottome, Phyllis, Penguin, 1943.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, and Simon Schama. We shall fight on the beaches. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963. Editor James, Robert Rhodes, Chelsea House in association with R. R. Bowker, 1974.