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Winston Churchill   1874-1965

 

 

 

 

Winston Churchill

sitting for Graham Sutherland, 1954

 

Graham Sutherland

was one such friend.

 

Juda documented the painting

Sutherland made of Churchill,

which was later destroyed

 

Britain's first supermodels – in pictures

Elsbeth Juda fled the Nazis

and began a new life in London

– as a fashion photographer.

She went on to shoot everyone

from Barbara Goalen,

the first supermodel,

to Winston Churchill and Peter Blake

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Wed 28 Mar 2018    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/mar/28/
elsbeth-juda-britain-fashion-photographer-first-supermodels-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(L-R) Richard Nixon and WInston Churchill.

 

Location: Washington, DC, US

 

Date taken: 1954

 

Photographer: George Skadding

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/78bdd7d02c530999.html- broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Churchill campaigning in 1951

in British general election which he won.

 

Location: United Kingdom

 

Date taken: November 5, 1951

 

Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/09a3a97fdd040ebe.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prime Minister Winston Churchill (L)

listening to his son Randolph speak

during an election tour.

 

Location: United Kingdom

 

Date taken: July 1945

 

Photographer: Ian Smith

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/3a552f206abd4591.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The prime minister with his chiefs of staff

in the garden of 10 Downing Street, London, May 1945.

 

Left to right:

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal (Royal Air Force),

Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke (British Army),

Winston Churchill

and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham (Royal Navy)

 

The Blitz: rare colour photographs – in pictures

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Friday 10 July 2015    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/10/
the-blitz-rare-colour-photographs-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Churchill speaking

at the Albert Hall in London, 1944,

at an American Thanksgiving Celebration

 

The Churchill Centre

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/Churchill%20and%20Lincoln%20photo-landscape.jpg

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1050

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A mixed crowd listening to a speaker arguing the case

for a second front in Europe in support of the Russian effort

in Trafalgar Square.

 

Location: London, United Kingdom

 

Date taken: 1942

 

Photographer: David E. Scherman

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/b1b8d86cedf47b4b.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle’:

Winston Churchill rallies the nation in May 1940.

 

Photograph: IWM via Getty Images

 

Winston Churchill makes a fine movie star.

If only we had a leader to match him in real life today

 

Britain’s wartime leader is played

by Gary Oldman in the film Darkest Hour,

following portrayals by John Lithgow and Brian Cox.

 

His enduring legend is a rebuke to current world politicians,

says the Observer’s chief political columnist

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Sun 7 Jan 2018    08.00 GMT

Last modified on Wed 21 Mar 2018    23.49 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/
winston-churchill-darkest-hour-andrew-rawnsley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A resolute Churchill, April 1939

 

Photograph: Associated Press

 

The Case Against Winston Churchill

NYT

Published Oct. 26, 2021

Updated Oct. 29, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/
books/review/geoffrey-wheatcroft-churchills-shadow.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winston Churchill.

 

Location: United Kingdom

 

Date taken: 1939

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/99005620fd10fa2c.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty,

at Vickers shipbuilders in Barrow-in-Furness, 1915

 

An archive of more than 10,000 photographs

capturing everyday life in England’s north-west

has been saved for the future,

and is now being made available to the public

in the Sankey Photography Archive.

 

From 1885 to the 1970s

thousands of photographs were taken

by the Barrow-in-Furness-based father and son

Edward and Raymond Sankey,

who captured a wide range of subjects,

 

Shipping, leisure and the great outdoors:

90 years of life in England’s north-west – in pictures

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Fri 9 Feb 2024    08.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/09/
archive-photos-capture-life-in-england-north-west

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

British statesman and prime minister

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

as a young man.

 

Date taken: 1903

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/5775cf9af0befe82.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mansell Collection

The former Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill,

with her sons John (L) and Winston.

 

Location: United Kingdom

 

Date taken: 1885

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/0f6c2acdcc310c3c.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winston Churchill    1874-1965

 

Prime Minister    1940-1945 and 1951-1955

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/winston-churchill

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-newhome.html

https://archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/09/
archive-photos-capture-life-in-england-north-west

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/
arts/design/churchill-art-paintings-fans.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/
1082620323/the-splendid-and-the-vile-dives-deep-into-winston-churchills-year-during-the-bli

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/
books/review/geoffrey-wheatcroft-churchills-shadow.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/17/
why-cant-britain-handle-the-truth-about-winston-churchill

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/
books/review/the-splendid-and-the-vile-erik-larson.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/
books/review/alan-allport-britain-at-bay.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/
books/review/the-churchill-myths-stephen-fielding-bill-schwarz-richard-toye-
winston-churchill-a-life-in-the-news.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/
156720829/winston-churchills-way-with-words

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/
860853013/how-winston-churchill-pulled-britain-through-the-early-years-of-wwii

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/
860939404/winston-churchill-fearless-leadership-in-crisis

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/
ve-day-churchill-feared-de-gaulle-would-declare-victory-early

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/
823830284/how-winston-churchill-pulled-britain-through-the-early-years-of-wwii

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/02/
811133671/erik-larsons-latest-book-focuses-on-winston-churchill-during-the-blitz

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/
807027681/churchills-first-year-as-prime-minister-is-electric-in-the-splendid-and-the-vile

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/
books/review/andrew-roberts-churchill-winston-biography.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/
winston-churchill-darkest-hour-andrew-rawnsley

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/
564871284/darkest-hour-in-a-world-at-war-a-war-of-words

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/23/
565935388/darkest-hour-is-a-grand-ham-fisted-showpiece-for-gary-oldman-s-churchill

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/26/
544447697/how-the-boer-war-helped-winston-churchill-become-the-hero-of-the-empire

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/europe/
winston-churchill-aliens.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/
winston-churchill-essay-alien-life-discovered-us-college-are-we-alone-in-the-universe

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/01/
472459579/hitler-couldnt-defeat-churchill-but-champagne-nearly-did

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/30/
winston-churchills-funeral-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/07/
state-schools-tristram-hunt-churchill-education

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/
winston-churchill-jospeh-stalin-night-drinking

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/15/
young-titan-churchill-shelden-review

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/oct/26/
nazi-shooting-nuremberg-international-justice

 

https://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/
156720829/winston-churchills-way-with-words

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/
arts/design/churchill-the-power-of-words-at-the-morgan-library.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/07/
britains-empire-richard-gott-review

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/02/
churchills-history-mary-lovell-review

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8234000/8234106.stm

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/churchill-europe-second-world-war

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/14/churchill-bunker-richard-holmes-review

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspeeches3

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Britain's relationship with America    10 October 1951

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1951/oct/10/
uk.past

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943

 

India

 

The 1943 famine in Bengal

(...)

killed up to 3 million people

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24 August 1941

 

Pact with America:

Churchill's speech

after the Atlantic conference

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 20, 1940

 

Battle of Britain

 

Winston Churchill's speech

 

 

Never in the field of human conflict

was so much owed by so many to so few

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/world/europe/
henry-lafont-french-pilot-in-battle-of-britain-dies-at-91.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4257084.stm 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/
battle-of-britain 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1940/aug/21/
secondworldwar.germany 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/
Story/0,,128255,00.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/
stories/september/15/newsid_3521000/3521611.stm - 15 September 1940

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Short History

Of The Dardanelles Campaign

 

Imperial War Museums

 

By Nigel Steel,

Principal Historian

 

 

A narrow

60-mile-long strip of water

that divides Europe from Asia,

the Dardanelles has been of great

strategic significance

for centuries.

 

Carefully secured

by international treaty,

it was the closing

of the Dardanelles

that eventually brought

the Ottoman Empire

into the war

as a German ally

at the end of October 1914.

 

By late 1914,

movement

on the Western Front

had ground to a halt.

 

Some Allied leaders

suggested

opening new fronts

to break the deadlock,

shorten the war

and avoid heavier loss of life.

 

Soon after the start

of the new year,

Great Britain and France

attempted to force

the Dardanelles

and attack Constantinople

(now Istanbul),

the capital

of the Ottoman Empire.

 

Many in Britain,

notably the First Lord

of the Admiralty,

Winston Churchill,

believed that

knocking the Ottomans

out of the war

would undermine Germany.

 

They theorised

that as a result of this attack,

Britain and France

would be able to help

their weakest partner, Russia;

 

that the Suez Canal

and Britain’s

Middle Eastern oil interests

would be secured;

 

and that undecided

Balkan states,

including

Bulgaria and Greece,

would join the Allied side.

 

It was an exciting

and alluring proposition.

 

But it was based

on the mistaken belief

that the Ottomans were weak

and could easily be overcome.

 

On 19 February 1915,

British and French ships

began a naval assault

on the Dardanelles.

 

The fighting culminated

in a heavy setback

for the Allies

on 18 March

due to large losses

from Turkish mines.

 

Military landings

on the Gallipoli peninsula

followed on 25 April.

 

Contained

by the Ottoman defenders,

a new assault began

on 6 August.

 

Each fresh attempt

was defeated,

and by mid-January 1916,

all Allied troops

had been evacuated

and the attack

on the Dardanelles

abandoned.

 

For the Ottomans,

it was a major achievement.

 

The Allies succeeded

only in attrition,

killing thousands

of Ottoman soldiers.

 

Even this exacted a high price;

total casualties for the campaign

were more than half a million.

 

The Dardanelles campaign

remains one

of the First World War’s

most controversial episodes.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/
a-short-history-of-the-dardanelles-campaign

added 27 April 2015

 

 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/
a-short-history-of-the-dardanelles-campaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1898

 

Sudan

 

Omdurman battle

 

 

In 1898,

(...)

a whole panoply of British officers

(including Winston Churchill)

who would later fight in Europe

were on hand for a battle

at Omdurman, in Sudan.

 

The 50,000 Sudanese they faced

were armed only

with spears, swords

and antiquated rifles.

 

In a few hours,

the six Maxim machine guns

of the far smaller

Anglo-Egyptian force

fired half a million bullets,

leaving nearly

11,000 Sudanese dead

and some 16,000 wounded,

many fatally.

 

The battle determine

the outcome of a war

in less than a day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
opinion/adam-hochschild-why-world-war-i-was-such-a-blood-bath.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
opinion/adam-hochschild-why-world-war-i-was-such-a-blood-bath.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/
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https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/
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A lost heritage:

Nazi pictures reveal full devastation wreaked by allied bombers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/10/
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https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg 

 

 

 

 

enemy propaganda

National Archives

publish wartime propaganda in online gallery - 13 June 2012

Hundreds of images of war art including posters

and a portrait of the future queen are released online

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Category:War_art_in_The_National_Archives_%28United_Kingdom%29 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/13/
national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery

 

 

 

 

Ministry of Food Posters

A new exhibition

at London's Imperial War Museum (Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)

pays tribute to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness

in the face of wartime – and peacetime – food rationing.

Here is some of the eye-catching British Government propaganda

used on the 'Kitchen Front' during that time.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html 

 

 

 

 

The following posters were all used during the Second World War

to encourage austerity and stoicism on Britain's home front.

They form part of an exhibition at the Museum of Brands in London

entitled Make Do and Mend

(www.museumofbrands.com ;

020 79080880;

2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).

The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html 

 

 

 

 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/08/second-world-war

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/10/second-world-war

Second World War > Aftermath
https://www.theguardian.com/
theguardian/second-world-war/2009/sep/11/all

 

 

 

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