Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 39 Review by Warren F Kimball Kaarel Piirimäe, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Baltic Question: Allied Relations during the Second World War, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xvi...

Finest Hour 162, Spring 2014 Page 55 29TH INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL CONFERENCE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, 12 OCTOBER 2012 By Warren F Kimball ABSTRACT Canadians valued their...

Finest Hour 156, Autumn 2012 Page 42 Market Impacts: Financial  Aspects of the Special Relationship By Irwin Stelzer Dr Stelzer is an American economist living in...

Accompanied by his eighteen-year-old son Randolph , his brother Jack and his nephew, Churchill’s touring party set off across Canada After a railway trip from Quebec to Vancouver, they crossed the...

Invented by Dr James Naismith in 1891, the original game of basketball was played at the YMCA International Training School with a football and two peach baskets nailed ten feet off...

In America it was a similar story Voting was largely confined to wealthy men until 1870 when the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution declared ‘the right of citizens of the...

In the United States, Nelson Jackson and his friend, Sewall Crocker were the first to cross the country in an automobile The trip in 1903 lasted sixty three days – many...

This cultural sea change in Britain and around the world is epitomised by the music of the time While British popular culture tended to be heavily influenced by North America, British...

In January 1932 A.M. Spofforth of Minnesota wrote to Winston Churchill to wish him a speedy recovery from his road accident and to advise him to ‘leave out the cricket terms’ from his lectures as ‘they understand only baseball here’.