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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...

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...

…this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

An unusual clip of Churchill making an informal speech to an enormous crowd outside Bradford Town Hall in 1942, during the Second World War, seemingly without notes and including one of...

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...

Now… we have a new experience. We have victory – a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years men will still say 'This was their finest hour'.

While in India with his regiment in the late 1890s, Churchill had read voraciously; making up for his lack of university education, he devoured works by Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin –...