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Richard M. Langworth CBE, signing books in Nashville, Tennessee circa 2017
In Memoriam: Richard M. Langworth CBE (1941–2025)

In Memoriam: Richard M. Langworth CBE (1941–2025)

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It is with incal­cu­la­ble sad­ness that we announce the pass­ing of Richard M. Lang­worth CBE, who died peace­ful­ly in the ear­ly morn­ing hours of Feb­ru­ary 20th, 2025, at the age of 83.

Sum­ma­riz­ing the life of a man who accom­plished so much and pos­i­tive­ly affect­ed so many is an impos­si­ble task. For­tu­nate­ly, he doc­u­ment­ed much of it him­self — 726 blog posts remain as a tes­ta­ment to his pas­sion for his­to­ry, auto­mo­biles, and the endur­ing lega­cy of Sir Win­ston S. Churchill. His work extend­ed beyond this site with dozens of books, writ­ten or edit­ed, and hun­dreds of pub­lished mag­a­zine and jour­nal arti­cles.…

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Life
“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.” Proving his point, this is what one sees from his Dining Room window, looking across the garden out over the Weald of Kent. (Photo by Gareth Williams, Creative Commons)
Q&A: Churchill’s Philosophy of Life and Living

Q&A: Churchill’s Philosophy of Life and Living

“What was Churchill’s Phi­los­o­phy of Life and Liv­ing?” was first pub­lished by the Hills­dale Col­lege Churchill Project. For the orig­i­nal arti­cle with end­notes, click here. To sub­scribe to free week­ly arti­cles from Hills­dale-Churchill, click here and scroll to bot­tom. Enter your email in the box “Stay in touch with us.” No adver­tis­ing: Your iden­ti­ty remains a rid­dle wrapped in a mys­tery inside an enigma.

Q: On life and living

If I want to under­stand Sir Win­ston Churchill’s phi­los­o­phy of life and liv­ing, what books would you rec­om­mend? —B.A., via email

A: Lengthy sources

At first your ques­tion remind­ed us of the old fra­ter­ni­ty ini­ti­a­tion tech­nique: ask­ing pledges an unan­swer­able ques­tion.…

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alcohol
Wendy Reves, hosting the Churchills at La Pausa, the Cap Martin home of his agent Emery Reves, 1957. (Photo presented to the author by Mrs. Reves)
Updates: Was Churchill an Alcoholic? Spirits, Pipes, Cigarettes

Updates: Was Churchill an Alcoholic? Spirits, Pipes, Cigarettes

In eary youth, Churchill found whisky repugnant. Then, in Sudan in 1899, “there was nothing to drink, apart from tea, except either tepid water or tepid water with lime juice or tepid water with whisky. Faced with these alternatives I ‘grasped the larger hope’.… Wishing to fit myself for active service conditions I overcame the ordinary weaknesses of the flesh. By the end of those five days I had completely overcome my repugnance to the taste of whisky.”

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half-breed
Churchill and Butler were rarely photographed together. Here they are with WSC’s last Cabinet, 1955: L-R Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Winston, Leader of the House of Lords the Marquess of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Exchequer R.A. Butler, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Philip Cunliffe-Lister. (HMSO, Crown copyright expired)
When Rab Called Churchill a “Half-Breed American”

When Rab Called Churchill a “Half-Breed American”

“Rab said he thought that the good clean tradition of English politics, that of Pitt as opposed to Fox, had been sold to the greatest adventurer of modern political history.... He believed this sudden coup of Winston and his rabble was a serious disaster and an unnecessary one: the “pass had been sold” by Mr. C[hamberlain], Lord Halifax and Oliver Stanley. They had weakly surrendered to a half-breed American whose main support was that of inefficient but talkative people of a similar type...” —Jock Colville, May 1940

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