copyright: Churchill Archives...

Churchill making the famous United Europe speech in 1946 copyright: Churchill Archives Centre, Broadwater Collection...

Winston Churchill makes his VE Day radio broadcast from 10 Downing Street, 8 May 1945 copyright: IWM H 41846...

William Bourke Cockran (1854–1923), the New York Democrat and noted political orator who almost certainly influenced Churchill in the early days Bourke Cockran was his mother’s lover and Churchill stayed in...

copyright: Churchill War Rooms (Private loan)...

Here is the final page of his speaking notes for the ‘Finest Hour’, which he used when he made his speech and broadcast on 18 June You’ll see that it is...

Churchill’s article, ‘When I dried up’, describing the incident in 1904, written and published much later when he was a more confident speaker (12 May 1934) copyright: Churchill Archives Centre...

First page from his article on the art of public speaking, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric’ copyright: Churchill Archives Centre...

Churchill about to broadcast to the nation on the afternoon of 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day copyright: IWM (H 41843)...