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...
World War II saw the rationing re-introduced to Britain and, as the war progressed, food shortages became even more severe. Shortages in this period saw creative inventions such as carrot jam and also lead to spam becoming an iconic wartime symbol.
See Churchill making his speech, and receiving a standing ovation from his audience, at County Hall here https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/cRBGfYVOELk copyright: British Pathé...
Film footage of the Churchill’s enjoying a rare family holiday in the 1940s, possibly in Marrakech, during the Second World War https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/jf62-rocFd4 copyright: British Pathé...
The day after France fell to the Germans, Churchill made perhaps his finest speech of this period – commonly known now by its most famous phrase, ‘This was their Finest Hour’...
On 19 September 1940, Churchill ‘visits Defences’, ‘typifying Britain’s iron determination to destroy the blight of Nazidom’ – and Churchill’s ‘unflinching and inspiring energy makes him John Bull No 1’...
‘The First Ten Weeks of the War’, 12 November 1939 https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/XWqf4wxam14 copyright: British Pathé...
British Pathe film clip of ‘Some Chicken! Some Neck!’, 30 December 1941 Churchill made a brief trip to Canada to attend a meeting of the Canadian War Cabinet on 29 December,...
Churchill makes his speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946 British Pathe label this speech as having been made in 1945 and while this clip doesn’t include the famous...
‘From Washington to Gibraltar, and Gibraltar to Tunis our dynamic Prime Minister travels the globe’ Here you can see the British Pathe newsreel report of Churchill’s arrival in Tunisia on...
