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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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.
197
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...
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.
qtd. in
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
149

Timeline

May 1945: In what has become known as the Nuremberg...

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May 1945

In what has become known as the Nuremberg trials, leaders from the Allied countries (particularly the Big Four: Churchill , De Gaulle , Stalin , and Truman , who had succeeded to Roosevelt the...

8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

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8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
223, 226-7
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
529, 533
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
825-7
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
378

30 June 1945: Campaigning in the first post-war general...

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30 June 1945

Campaigning in the first post-war general election, Winston Churchill publicly stated support for the principle of equality for women in industry.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
35
, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15.
402
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, 8 vols.
7197-8

17 July-2 August 1945: The Potsdam Conference convened to plan the...

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17 July-2 August 1945

The Potsdam Conference convened to plan the Allied occupation of Germany and the enactment of principles agreed on at the Yalta Conference.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
235
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
830, 836-41

26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...

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26 July 1945

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison , Ernest Bevin , Hugh Dalton , and Sir...

26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...

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26 July 1945

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison , Ernest Bevin , Hugh Dalton , and Sir...

5 March 1946: Winston Churchill made a famous speech in...

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5 March 1946

Winston Churchill made a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he described an iron curtain coming down across Europe, dividing the east from the west.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
32
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
252
Nairn, Tom. “Where’s the omelette?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 20, 23 Oct. 2008, pp. 19-20.
19
Ascherson, Neal. “Wedgism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 14, 23 July 2009, pp. 13-15.
13

Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...

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Late 1951

Winston Churchill 's Conservative government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.
Roberts, Clayton, and David Roberts. A History of England: 1688 to the Present. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
820
Mount, Ferdinand. “The Doctrine of Unripe Time”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006, pp. 28-30.
28

Late 1951: Florence Horsbrugh was appointed Minister...

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Late 1951

Florence Horsbrugh was appointed Minister of Education without a seat in cabinet by Winston Churchill ; it was the first time an Education Minister . . . [had been] excluded from the Cabinet in twenty...

26 October 1951: At the general election the postwar reforming...

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26 October 1951

At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill

10 December 1953: Former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill...

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10 December 1953

Former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill of Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation,. Nobel E-Museum.

1954: Painter Graham Sutherland completed his painting...

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1954

Painter Graham Sutherland completed his painting of Sir Winston Churchill , which caused a furore by its unflinching rendering of old age.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
408

December 1954: Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, intervened...

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December 1954

Winston Churchill , as Prime Minister, intervened to block a planned BBC programme (with a woman producer) about the prospect of the H-bomb and the effects of fallout.
Travis, Alan. “Churchill gagged BBC on H-bomb”. The Guardian, 20 Aug. 1999, p. 6.
6

6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...

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6 April 1955

Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party , following Churchill 's resignation.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
36
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 408

30 January 1965: A state funeral was held in London for Sir...

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30 January 1965

A state funeral was held in London for Sir Winston Churchill , who had died on 24 January.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
423

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