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Statue of Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones in Nám?stí W Churchilla (Winston Churchill Square), behind the main train station in Prague, Czech Republic copyright: Niels Bjerre...

This document from the Churchill Archives is Churchill’s commission as a 2nd Lieutenant It is signed by Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, Secretary of State for War in the 1892–95 Liberal government...

In October 1911, Churchill – still an ambitious relatively young minister – was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty with full charge of the Navy. Deteriorating relations between France and Germany and the rapid expansion of the German Navy had prompted great anxiety in Britain and Churchill was determined to ensure Britain’s maintenance of its naval supremacy over Germany. He felt that Britain should be in ‘constant and instant readiness for war’. Thanks to Churchill’s energy and persistence, the fleet was indeed ready when war came. In a peculiar twist of fate, when Churchill the anti-appeaser returned to office following his famous ‘wilderness years’ in September 1939, it was to be as First Lord of the Admiralty again (and he would be Prime Minister within eight months, fighting another war).

At the start of the twentieth century, there was great variety in the types of food that was available to the rich and the poor. Malnutrition was common amongst poorer families, while elaborate dining was commonplace for the wealthy. This all changed after First World War and, by the Second World War, the food that we ate had changed forever.

In May 1926 the Trades Union Congress called a national stoppage – or general strike – in support of the miners who were being asked to work longer hours for less...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth For better or worse, it was Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill who chaired the 1921 Cairo Conference which created the Middle East borders we still know today What...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

In 1909, when the House of Lords rejected Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, Churchill responded by attacking the peers for their pursuit of class interests He became president of the Budget League...