Churchill gave his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech in 1946 These events took place at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury and the National Churchill Mus...
This picture … is about as presentable as anything I can produce. It shows the beautiful panorama of the snow-capped Atlas mountains in Marrakech. This is the view I persuaded your predecessor [Roosevelt] to see before he left North Africa after the Casablanca Conference [in 1943].
copyright: Churchill Heritage Ltd, with kind permission of Anthea Morton-Saner, on behalf of Churchill Heritage Ltd...
A collection of audio clips in which historian Sir David Cannadine looks at points of interest within the life of Sir Winston Churchill’s life which haven’t been frequently documented...
Introduced by Richard M Langworth The hobby Churchill began in 1915, as a diversion from his despair over the Dardanelles disaster, became his constant companion for over forty years But how good...
In Morocco, he patronised the country’s grandest hotel – La Mamounia in Marrakesh: ‘it is the most lovely spot in the world’, Churchill apparently told Roosevelt During his ‘Wilderness Years’ when...
Recognition in his final years...
A documentary made in 1964 about his life as a painter, ‘The other world of Winston Churchill’, was based on Churchill’s Painting as a Pastime It includes footage of Churchill painting,...
Churchill took up painting in 1915 at the age of forty after his sudden fall from office over the disastrous Dardanelles campaign. He hoped it would provide a distraction, and he threw himself into it wholeheartedly.
Hall conceived and arranged the first exhibition devoted solely to Churchill’s paintings and it opened in Kansas City where Truman pronounced them ‘Damn good’ The exhibition, to which Churchill had somewhat reluctantly...
