Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) and Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) discuss Winston Churchill’s relationship with the classics They explore the effects of learning Latin in school and reading...

[T]he shorter words of a language are usually the more ancient ... Their meaning is more ingrained in the national character and they appeal with greater force to simple understanding.

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John Grierson narrates WHAuden’s poem, ‘This is the Night Mail’ https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/zmciuKsBOi0 copyright: Film Poems...

To sit at one’s table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen – that is true happiness.

It’s not often remembered that Churchill was a writer of fiction – Savrola is easily forgotten – but he did write various counterfactual history – or fantasy – stories Read...

A page from the galley proofs The Second World War, Vol VI (about the race to Berlin), heavily annotated with rewriting, deletions, substitutions Churchill had to get every word and phrase...

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

The train was romanticised in countless works of art These include the poem ‘This is the Night Mail’ by WH Auden, which demonstrates that the rail network was not only used...