January 1, 1970

Professor Vernon Bogdanor’s lecture, ‘The Legacy of Winston Churchill’, was delivered at Gresham College, London, on 22 January 2015, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death. Will Churchill be regarded as pointing the way to the future or as a grandiose final chord, the prelude to the collapse of British power? Bogdanor argues that, while he may seem remote from us today, he remains at the heart of the debate on Britain’s role in the world:

‘Some argue we are too fixated on 1940 and too hide-bound with the past. I do not agree. I think we can all take pride in what our grandparents did in ensuring that Europe did not fall under the permanent rule of perhaps the worst tyranny that it had ever known … The truth is, in Britain, everybody today walks taller because of Churchill, and I think that is the fundamental reason why we should all pay him tribute on the 50^th anniversary of his death.’

Vernon Bogdanor, from ‘The Legacy of Winston Churchill’, Gresham College, 22 January 2015.

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