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Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Churchill was a great orator. While he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, it’s for his wartime speeches – ‘never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’ – that he is now justly remembered. Whether warning of the dangers of fascism, rallying the British nation against attack or wrestling with the problems of the Cold War, ‘he mobilised the English language and sent it into battle’. Today, the English-Speaking Union, founded in 1918, brings together and empowers people of different languages and cultures to gain the skills and confidence in communicating to others in order to reach their full potential. Churchill was the Chairman of the ESU from 1921 to 1925. The Churchill Lecture, which Ronald Reagan, Dr Henry Kissinger and HRH The Princess Royal have all given in the past, has been a prestigious event in their annual programme.

Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) and Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) discuss Winston Churchill’s notorious ‘Gestapo Speech’ in the context of the 1945 General Election https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/lM54hRMxzCc?list=PLVRJoyIOeaRK4eDDCZ_GOgIAXWOcRtmf- copyright:...

A page from Churchill’s typewritten speech notes (set out in his usual ‘psalm’ style, to aid delivery) with the famous ‘this was their finest hour’ line (other phrases were very slightly...

No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.

They [the dictators] are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them.

This is a list of collections of his speeches The title of the original book appears first, followed by its date of first publication and then the date range of the...

Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) and Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) discuss the speech which Winston Churchill gave in the aftermath of the sinking of the French Fleet on...