Join ICS Executive Director Justin Reash and Chartwell Property Curator Katherine Carter as they discuss the key role Churchill's family home plays in keeping his legacy alive.

 
Katherine Carter (MA, MRHistS, FRSA) is the Property Curator at Chartwell, National Trust, the former home of Sir Winston Churchill. Chartwell was the Churchills’ primary residence from 1924 until Winston’s death in 1965. For more than forty years his home was his sanctuary as well as his factory. It was the site of his phenomenal political and literary output, the inspiration for his paintbrush and the place so dear to him that he often remarked that ‘a day away from Chartwell is a day wasted’.

Join NCLC Program Director Justin Reash with for a new installment of the Churchill Leadership Series with Lord Boateng, Chair of the Trustees of the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust.

 
Lord Boateng served as Member of Parliament for Brent South from 1987 to 2005 and became the United Kingdom’s first black cabinet minister when he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2002. He then served as High Commissioner to South Africa from 2005 to 2009 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2010.

George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator gives the Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture on "Churchillian Realism" plus a series of other events to commemorate this important anniversary. 

George F Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America". He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

Allister Vale is Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist and Toxicologist at City Hospital, Birmingham and holds an honorary chair in the University of Birmingham. He is a former Censor of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded the President’s Medal. He has been elected President of professional societies in the UK, Europe and the US.

Emma Soames (born 9th September 1949) is a British editor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Soames was educated at three independent schools: at Laverock School in Oxted in Surrey, followed by Hamilton House School in Kent (both in South East England), followed by Queen's College (from 1965-66) in Harley Street in Central London.

Soames was a long-serving editor of the Telegraph magazine. She is now the editor-at-large of Saga magazine. Her brother is Nicholas Soames who was a Conservative minister of defence under Sir John Major.

Rachel Trethewey read History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for student journalism. She has an MA in Victorian Studies and a PhD in English from Exeter University.

During her career in journalism, Rachel wrote features for the Daily Express and Daily Mail and reviewed historical books for the Independent. She was Education correspondent at Westcountry Television. The Churchill Girls is Rachel’s fourth book. She lives in Devon.

Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 2014, where she wrote her dissertation on the origins of modern counterintelligence practices. After graduating, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. The Daughters of Yalta is her first book

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Arie M. Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Prior to his arrival at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. He was a G.L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a participant in the National History Center’s International Decolonization Seminar, and recipient of the Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a was Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.

His current book research project, tentatively entitled Dreamers of the Third Empire/Temple, examines ties between Zionist and British imperial thinkers in interwar years and to uncover alternative, neglected federalist political schemes for the future of the region that were circulating at the time.

Dr Rob Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War (CCW) research centre at Oxford University and a Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Rob’s research interests are how we conceive of armed conflicts and he has specialised on military and strategic thought, and the history of conflicts in South West Asia (‘The Middle East’). He is the author of a number of books on strategy and operations. He published Lawrence of Arabia on War (2020) to trace the evolution of T.E. Lawrence’s thinking and hitherto he wrote The Great War and the Middle East: A Strategic Study on its context. He is the co-editor of a collection with a similar title (2019) and wrote an article for Middle Eastern Studies entitled The de Bunsen Committee and a revision of the ‘conspiracy’ of Sykes–Picot available here. He is the author of The Iraq Revolt, 1920 in John Wilson, (ed), British Army Campaign Guide to the Forgotten Fronts of The First World War (London, 2017) and the forthcoming Air Power and United States’ Iraq Wars in Dennis Showalter and Kaushik Roy, (eds.) Warfare in Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has written on more recent conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.

Dr Liora Lukitz , a H.F. Guggenheim research fellow at the CMES, Harvard also developed a program for the study of the Middle East through technology at Braude and Afeka Colleges of High Engineering in Israel. She is the author of A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and The Making of Modern Iraq (2006) and, recently, of Certainties and Uncertainties in Gertrude Bell’s Many Lives. 

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He has published nineteen books, and is an expert on the life, career and reputation of Winston Churchill. In 2007 he won the Times Higher Education Young Academic Author of the Year Award for his book Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness. His most recent monograph, Winston Churchill: A Life in the News (OUP, 2020) explores his journalism, his media image (and his efforts to control it), and the reception of news about him by ordinary readers and viewers. This builds on the approach Richard used in The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches (OUP, 2013) which showed that Churchill’s oratory generated much more controversy and criticism than legend suggests. Richard has often appeared on TV and radio and has written for publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Felix Klos is an American/Dutch historian, political scientist and author. Klos was educated at the University of Oxford, Lincoln college and Middlebury College Vt. His academic work has focused on European integration. During his studies he served as a Legislative Intern in the United States Senate and an International Office Intern for the progressive Dutch Liberal Democratic Party D66.

Klos is the author of Churchill on Europe: The Untold Story of Churchill's European Project (London, IB Tauris, June 2016) and Winston Churchill - Father of Europe (Amsterdam, 2016, Hollands Diep). In addition to the books Klos published a number of newspaper and magazine articles regarding Churchill's European legacy in the perspective of the UK EU referendum in June 2016.

This event is co-sponsored by the George Washington University School of Political Management.

Paul Ryan was the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. In office from October 2015 to January 2019, he was the youngest speaker in nearly 150 years.

During his tenure as Speaker, Ryan spearheaded efforts to reform our nation’s tax code, rebuild our national defense, expand domestic energy production, combat the opioid epidemic, reform our criminal justice system, and promote economic opportunity.

In 2019, Ryan launched the American Idea Foundation, a non-partisan, not for profit organization that expands economic opportunity by partnering with local organizations and academics to advance evidence-based public policies.

Mark Blitz, who received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena; Conserving Liberty; Plato’s Political Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life; and Heidegger’s “Being and Time” and the Possibility of Political Philosophy; and is co-editor (with William Kristol) of Educating the Prince. He served during the Reagan administration as Associate Director of the United States Information Agency, where he was the senior United States official in charge of educational and cultural programs abroad, and as a senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been Vice President of the Hudson Institute and has taught political philosophy at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Dobbs is an active member of the House of Lords, author of the original House of Cards and an authority on Winston Churchill.

He’s long had a ringside seat on history. He was with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she took her first steps into Downing Street, and was with John Major 18 years later when he was kicked out. He’s been variously described as ‘Westminster’s baby faced hitman’ and ‘a man who in Latin America would have been shot’.

He is a five-time Emmy award nominee, winner of multiple literary awards and the recipient of the International Churchill Society’s prestigious Blenheim Award for his novels and wide scholarship about Winston. A reviewer for The Times described one of his Churchill novels as being ‘the most compelling account of that great parliamentary occasion that I have ever read,’ while a member of the Churchill family says ‘he fills in the bits in between the history’.

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Winston Churchill became Prime Minister for the first time on May 10, 1940 and said, "I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial."

Erik Larson, author of the best-selling book that chronicles this moment The Splendid and the Vile, joins ICS Executive Director Justin Reash to go deeper into this remarkable day and the events that led to his ascension to the premiership.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is known all over the globe for his many accomplishments: world champion bodybuilder, Hollywood action hero, successful businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, best-selling author, and California's 38th Governor.

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