Coventry, an industrial city in the West Midlands, produced nearly a quarter of all British aircraft and was bombed repeatedly throughout 1940 There were seventeen small raids on the city between...

Churchill’s desire to play a more important role in the war – and in politics – came a step closer when David Lloyd George toppled Asquith to become Prime Minister of a coalition government in December 1916. By July 1917, his old Liberal ally and mentor was confident enough to take the risk of reintroducing Churchill – now largely exonerated of sole blame for the Dardanelles – into Government. Lloyd George appointed Churchill Minister of Munitions, putting him in charge of forging the weapons of war.

World War II saw the rationing re-introduced to Britain and, as the war progressed, food shortages became even more severe. Shortages in this period saw creative inventions such as carrot jam and also lead to spam becoming an iconic wartime symbol.

Churchill on the deck of ‘HMS Prince of Wales’, after the Atlantic Meeting, August 1941 He had made the outward journey across the Atlantic, travelling at high speed on board this...

Top copy of typescript speaking notes laid out ‘psalm style’, annotated with changes in black ink by Churchill, showing the page from the speech with ‘Never in the field of human...

Churchill talks by wireless telephone from the turret of a Churchill Mk 1 tank during a demonstration at the Vauxhall plant at Luton, England, on 23 May 1941 He’s wearing the...

Churchill in the uniform of the South African Light Horse unit, 1900 copyright: Reproduced from The Broadwater Collection with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of...

I am happy here … I always get on with soldiers. I do not certainly regret the step I took … I know that I am doing the right thing out here … Do you know I am quite young again?

These guarantees were not worth the paper they were written on, or the breath that uttered them. What is the position now? The CZ [Czech] Republic is being broken up before our eyes. Their gold is being stolen by the Nazis. The Nazi system is to blot out every form of internal freedom.