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History > UK, British empire, England
Early 21st century, 20th century
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 G Wed 28 Mar 2018 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/mar/28/
(L-R) Richard Nixon and WInston Churchill.
Location: Washington, DC, US
Date taken: 1954
Photograph: George Skadding
Life Images
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Churchill campaigning in 1951 in British general election which he won.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: November 5, 1951
Photograph: 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
Photograph: 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 G Friday 10 July 2015 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/10/
Monster, you make us suffer!,
Oskar Garvens, occupied Belgium, c1939-1945.
Garvens drew Nazi propaganda during the war. This undated poster, produced for occupied Belgium, blames Churchill for the lack of food supplies getting through to the people of German-occupied Europe.
Photograph: Courtesy of the IWM
We shall satirise him on the beaches… Churchill through the eyes of cartoonists – in pictures
In one wartime image, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in another, a gun-toting gangster.
Later, he appears old and dejected, overdue for retirement.
The cartoons, on show in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, show a multitude of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in different countries and at different times, from 1909 onwards.
“There was never a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “Some of the depictions were heavily critical and even grotesque”, while others “depict his determined nature and portray him as a British figurehead”.
Clements hopes the exhibition will “add another layer to our visitors’ understanding of this complex individual” and show “how satirical cartoons played a part in shaping perceptions of Churchill during his lifetime and beyond”.
Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman is at the Imperial War Museum, London from Friday to 23 February 2025 G Sat 23 Nov 2024 18.00 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/23/
Japanese propaganda leaflet, c1944. known as Dentans.
Japan dropped thousands of them on Indian troops.
The cartoons discouraged Indians from fighting for Britain.
Photograph: National Army Museum/Out of Copyright
We shall satirise him on the beaches… Churchill through the eyes of cartoonists – in pictures
In one wartime image, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in another, a gun-toting gangster.
Later, he appears old and dejected, overdue for retirement.
The cartoons, on show in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, show a multitude of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in different countries and at different times, from 1909 onwards.
“There was never a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “Some of the depictions were heavily critical and even grotesque”, while others “depict his determined nature and portray him as a British figurehead”.
Clements hopes the exhibition will “add another layer to our visitors’ understanding of this complex individual” and show “how satirical cartoons played a part in shaping perceptions of Churchill during his lifetime and beyond”.
Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman is at the Imperial War Museum, London from Friday to 23 February 2025 G Sat 23 Nov 2024 18.00 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/23/
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
Photograph; David E. Scherman
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/b1b8d86cedf47b4b.html - broken link
Ralph Soupault for Le Petit Parisien, France, 18 November 1942.
In November 1942, allied forces invaded French North Africa.
French cartoonist Ralph Soupault, loyal to the Nazi occupation regime, shows the allied leaders behaving like gangsters in north Africa.
Photograph: Ralph Soupault/Alamy
We shall satirise him on the beaches… Churchill through the eyes of cartoonists – in pictures
In one wartime image, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in another, a gun-toting gangster.
Later, he appears old and dejected, overdue for retirement.
The cartoons, on show in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, show a multitude of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in different countries and at different times, from 1909 onwards.
“There was never a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “Some of the depictions were heavily critical and even grotesque”, while others “depict his determined nature and portray him as a British figurehead”.
Clements hopes the exhibition will “add another layer to our visitors’ understanding of this complex individual” and show “how satirical cartoons played a part in shaping perceptions of Churchill during his lifetime and beyond”.
Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman is at the Imperial War Museum, London from Friday to 23 February 2025 G Sat 23 Nov 2024 18.00 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/23/
Ernest H Shepard for Punch, UK, 1 January 1941.
Shepard’s symbolic cartoon was used in Punch’s first issue of 1941.
It depicts Churchill as Saint George having just slain a dragon, representing German threats against Britain in 1940.
Photograph: © Punch Limited/TopFoto
We shall satirise him on the beaches… Churchill through the eyes of cartoonists – in pictures
In one wartime image, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in another, a gun-toting gangster.
Later, he appears old and dejected, overdue for retirement.
The cartoons, on show in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, show a multitude of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in different countries and at different times, from 1909 onwards.
“There was never a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “Some of the depictions were heavily critical and even grotesque”, while others “depict his determined nature and portray him as a British figurehead”.
Clements hopes the exhibition will “add another layer to our visitors’ understanding of this complex individual” and show “how satirical cartoons played a part in shaping perceptions of Churchill during his lifetime and beyond”.
Churchill in Cartoons: Satirising a Statesman is at the Imperial War Museum, London from Friday to 23 February 2025 G Sat 23 Nov 2024 18.00 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/23/
‘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 G 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/
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/
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 G Fri 9 Feb 2024 08.00 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/09/
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/nov/23/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/31/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/09/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/
https://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/02/
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/07/
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/22/
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/23/
https://www.npr.org/2017/09/26/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/europe/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/15/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/30/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/07/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/23/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/15/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2012/oct/26/
https://www.npr.org/2012/07/14/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/07/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/02/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/
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/
1943
India
The 1943 famine in Bengal (...) killed up to 3 million people
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/
24 August 1941
Pact with America: Churchill's speech after the Atlantic conference
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
August 20, 1940
Battle of Britain
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Few
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4257084.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1940/aug/21/
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/
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/ added 27 April 2015
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
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