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’.

Sonia Purnell, author of First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill, discusses the political influence and importance of Clementine Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt in her lecture at the Winston...

Whilst football continued to grow in Britain, across the Atlantic a very different type of football, or gridiron, was becoming increasingly popular Taking rugby as its inspiration, American football developed during the...

The Beatles off to America (1964) https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/813e8Lw_ceI copyright: British Pathé...

Card from A M Spofforth, St Paul, Minnesota, to Churchill, wishing his speedy recovery following road accident, and advising him to cut our cricketing terms from his lectures “as they understand...

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Churchill and Truman on the rear platform of a special Baltimore & Ohio train en route for Fulton, Missouri copyright: By Abbie Rowe, 1905-1967, Photographer (NARA record: 8451352) (US National...

“It is always, I think, true to say that one of the main foundations of the British sense of humor is understatement” – Winston Churchill © Mary Evans PictureLibrary...

Finest Hour 176, Spring 2017 Page 51 Review by Michael McMenamin Susan Elia MacNeal, Mrs Roosevelt’s Confidante, Bantam, 2015, 352 pages, $16 ISBN 978–0804178709 Portrayal *** Worth Reading *** Mrs Roosevelt’s Confidante is the...