Aamerica’s National Churchill Museum Announces New Acquisition Fulton, MO—America’s National Churchill Museum (ANCM) at Westminster College has announced the acquisition of a historically significant...

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns When I get I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns When I get...

The Marie of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Jean-Francois Dieterich, does the honors SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRAT, FRANCE—On June 16 the International Churchill Society and the village of...

Finest Hour 183, First Quarter 2019 Page 16 By Fred Glueckstein Fred Glueckstein is author of Churchill and Colonist II (2014) Watching Winston Churchill was no easy task The use...

Finest Hour 183, First Quarter 2019 Page 44 Review by David Freeman David Cannadine, ed, Churchill: The Statesman as Artist, Bloomsbury, 2018, 172 pages, £25/$30 ISBN 978–1472945211 Writing in his...

Finest Hour 178, Fall 2018 Page 36 Timothy Riley is Sandra L and Monroe E Trout Director and Chief Curator of the National Churchill Museum “Both my wife and I stand in need...

At the birthday celebrations at Westminster Hall in November 1954, Churchill was presented with a portrait by Graham Sutherland, commissioned by past and present members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It was Sutherland’s practice to prepare detailed sketches, almost completely finished works, often close-ups of the heads of his sitters. Apparently Churchill had asked Sutherland at the outset, ‘How are you going to paint me? As a cherub, or the Bulldog?’ Sutherland is said to have replied: ‘It depends on what you show me, sir.’ He later told Beaverbrook that ‘Consistently ... he showed me the Bull Dog’. Churchill loathed the finished portrait (he later said it was ‘malignant’), perhaps because it conveyed all too accurately the frailties of old age, although when presented with it on his birthday, he carefully described it as ‘a remarkable example of modern art’. It was later, controversially, destroyed on the orders of Clementine. Churchill made his last major speech in the House of Commons on 1 March 1955 – a carefully prepared, and passionate, speech, in which he suggested that the power of nuclear weapons might lead to peace through deterrence. For a full transcript of his final speech, ‘Never Despair’, click .

Finest Hour 177, Summer 2017 Page 58 The estate of film legend Vivien Leigh (below left) will go under the hammer this summer at Sotheby’s in London The auction brings to light...

Finest Hour 177, Summer 2017 Page 44 By Timothy Riley Within weeks after his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty in the aftermath of the disastrous Dardanelles campaign in 1915, a despondent...