Here Churchill inspects a ‘Tommy gun’ during his visit to Hartlepool on 31 July 1940 to inspect costal defence positions (you can see from his engagement card for July, opposite, that...

It has been claimed that an actor read Churchill’s wartime speeches over the radio (when, it was said, Churchill refused to repeat them, having already given the speeches in the House...

No It’s been suggested that some of the famous recordings (not those on this site) aren’t actually the work of Churchill at all, but of an actor mimicking his voice Although...

Coventry, an industrial city in the West Midlands, produced nearly a quarter of all British aircraft and was bombed repeatedly throughout 1940 There were seventeen small raids on the city between...

Did Churchill let Coventry burn rather than reveal his knowledge of German Codes? It’s been claimed that Churchill knew of the imminent attack several days before but held back the information...

Follow the links below to listen to the recordings Churchill made of these iconic speeches Most of these key speeches of 1940, with the exception of 18 June’s speech, were given...

Review of The Man Within by Dr Warren Dockter...

Sport also played an important role after the Second World War and, under Ludwig Guttman’s care, paralysed patients at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury were using sport as part of...

Originally published in six volumes in the US, with the ensuing English edition making corrections and adding a few maps, The Second World War was Churchill’s account of the War from...