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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...

In January 1911 Churchill provoked further controversy as a result of his decision to personally oversee the police’s attempts to capture a group of Latvian anarchists, led by ‘Peter the Painter’,...

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...

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He also loved Monaco From 1945, he regularly visited Monte-Carlo and stayed at the Hotel de Paris for year-end festivities In the 1960s, he stayed here on the invitation of his...

V H Mottram’s (1932) gives recipes to help families economise: For the “really poor”, ingredients include white and brown bread, suet white flour, rice, tapioca, sago, potatoes, dates, currants and figs. For the “merely poor”: butter, parsnips, raisins, milk, sweet biscuits, some pork and beef. Those on a ‘moderate income’ could turn to (1937), with twelve menus for breakfasts, luncheons and dinners for all four seasons. Recipes included salmon mayonnaise, roast fowl, asparagus with cream sauce, oysters , fillets of Beef a la St Aubyn, roast partridge and all kinds of fish – fresh, saltwater and shellfish.