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 –...

All his life Churchill had a speech impediment which didn’t help matters either He couldn’t pronounce his ‘s’s’ properly; not an obvious advantage for someone wishing to make their mark in...

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...

The most definitive collection of his speeches is Winston S Churchill: His Complete Speeches (eight volumes – and a total of nine thousand pages!) There are shorter, more accessible collections: the...

Here Churchill reports to ‘the Sirdar’ (Sir Herbert Kitchener) saying ‘Dervish army, strength unchanged’, telling him that there aren’t any hostile forces within three miles of the camp Churchill was one...

It has been claimed that an actor read Churchill’s wartime speeches over the radio (when, it was said, Churchill refused to repeat them, having already given the speeches in the House...

Letter from Mary Soames to her father, 8 June 1964, seven months before his death...

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Follow the links below to listen to the recordings Churchill made of these iconic speeches Most of these key speeches of 1940, with the exception of 18 June’s speech, were given...