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Hillsdale UK Cruise & Churchill Tours, May 31-June16

28 September 2018 Comments 0 Comments

Last Call: almost sold out Fewer than 60 cabins remain on the Churchill cruise of a lifetime. Many of our old Churchillian friends are coming, and this truly will be an event you will never forget. CLICK HERE for complete descriptions of the voyage (June 1-31) plus optional pre- and post-cruise Churchill events (May 31-June 1, June 13-16). I cannot answer questions about bookings, cabins and availability. Please contact Global Tracks, who I know from experience are very professional: (877) 242-6397, email hillsdalecollegecruise.com. A cruise to remember

The Hillsdale College Cruise in June 2019 is a spectacular journey around Britain.…

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Movies and Churchill: Hillsdale College, Michigan, 24-28 March 2019

6 August 2018 Comments 2 Comments

Movies at Hillsdale

In 1927, Winston Churchill wrote to his wife Clementine, “I am becoming a film fan.” He installed projection equipment for movies at Chequers, the country home of British prime ministers, in 1943, and at his family home Chartwell in 1946.

“Churchill and the Movies” is the final event by Hillsdale’s Center for Constructive Alternatives in the 2018-19 academic year. It explores two movies regarded as Churchill’s favorites and two biographical movies in historical context. My lecture addresses Henry V with Laurence Olivier. We will discuss Churchill’s understanding of Shakespeare, and application of the lessons of The Bard’s plays.…

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chicken — Addressing the Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941. (Wikimedia Commons)

Churchill +144: Perspective of History, Ottawa, 30 November 2018

3 August 2018 Comments 0 Comments

Posted by the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa.

Ottawa, Nov 30—

Richard M. Langworth CBE, spoke to the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa. The venue was Earnscliffe, the Residence of the British High Commissioner. The subject was “Winston Churchill, 144 Years On: The Perspective of History.ˮ

Langworth is a leading writers on Sir Winston. In 1968 he founded the Churchill Study Unit and its journal, Finest Hour. In 1982 he resurrected the journal from inactivity and edited it for thirty-five years. Five years ago he joined Hillsdale College (in Hillsdale, Michigan) as Senior Fellow for the Churchill Project, an endowed, permanent center of Churchill Studies in North America.…

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Churchill Myth and Reality at Nashville, Oct. 14th

21 July 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Nashville, Tenn., October 2017

The Churchill Society of Tennessee held its autumn banquet program in Nashville on the evening of Saturday October 14th. Our guest speaker, Richard M. Langworth, CBE discussed “Winston Churchill: Current Contentions.” Some 200 members and friends attended.

Residing in Moultonborough, New Hampshire and Eleuthera, Bahamas, Langworth is a writer and publisher of works on Winston S. Churchill and automotive history. His newest book is Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said (McFarland, August).

Churchill Works

Langworth is also author or editor of A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, Churchill in His Own Words, Churchill By Himself and nine other books about Churchill.…

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Hillsdale Churchill Conference, February 2017

17 March 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Hillsdale Churchill Conference

Balmy temperatures and a record turnout of 700 marked our event featuring Nigel Farage as keynote speaker at Hillsdale College‘s Churchill Conference and Dinner, held in conjunction with the “The Art of Winston Churchill: An Exhibition at Hillsdale College.” Like most Hillsdale educational events, there were no registration fees or meal charges, all of which are pre-funded. The paintings, organized by the National Churchill Museum, Fulton, were on display from January through March.)

Videos of all presentations are posted. Click here.

Nigel Farage built the UK Independence Party from a fringe group to the point where it dominated UK elections for the European Parliament and was a key force in Britain’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union.…

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Triumph in Texas, 7 October 2016

24 September 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Tanglewood Resort, Texas

Vintage Triumph Register 2016 Convention, Friday 7 October 2016.

Guest speaker: Richard Langworth

Location: Tanglewood Resort,Pottsboro, Texas.

Triumph Memories

Synopsis: Reflections on fifty years of messing about with Triumphs: “I’d never say this if I were not among friends, but Ferraris bore me. Just unaffordable excellence. My fun derives from funky vintage British cars.”

Speaker: Richard Langworth has been an automotive writer since 1969. After a freelance article in Automobile Quarterly, he joined AQ as associate and later senior editor. In 1975 he left to freelance. He has since written or co-authored more than fifty books and 2000 articles on automotive history. Richard…

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Churchill @ Vancouver, 26 July 2015

4 July 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Vancouver

The Churchill Society of British Columbia presents “An Evening with Churchill,” Tuesday 26 July 2016.

Location: Bar Three, The Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.

Time: Wine & cheese starts at 5:00 pm, Program from 5:50 – 7:00 pm.

Cost: $25 each for a member of the Society. $35 each for a non-member. $40 for a member accompanied by a spouse, partner or family member. (Includes one ticket per attendee for a glass of wine or beer, or two soft drinks. Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar.)

Dress: Business attire.

Please inform Administrator April Accola of your attendance by email or register online at our website.…

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Churchill @ Hillsdale CCA, 4-7 Oct. 2015

9 October 2015 Comments 0 Comments

I was pleased to be part of a program with Timothy Robert Hardy, the most inimitable and genuine actor to ever play the role of Winston Churchill; and Minnie Churchill, Sir Winston's granddaughter-in-law, an expert on Churchill's oil paintings. We were joined in presentations by two outstanding scholars, Andrew Roberts and John Maurer. CCA events are open to Hillsdale students, faculty and members of the College's President's Club.

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Nye — Churchill broadcasting on VE-Day, 8 May 1945. On national health he earlier told Lord Moran: “The doctors aren’t going to dictate to the country, they tried that with Lloyd George.” (Imperial War Museum, public domain)

Churchill’s Leadership, Denver 20-21 April 2015

20 November 2014 Comments 1 Comment

This year marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Churchill becoming prime minister in 1940, and the fiftieth anniversary of his death in 1965. This Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar drew leading historians and thinkers to examine Churchill’s extraordinary statesmanship and the lessons that may be drawn from his example today.

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Boris Says the Strangest Things

17 November 2014 Comments 4 Comments

Boris Johnson, whose book, The Churchill Factor, is feted widely, speaks his mind with a smile. Like Mr. Obama, he’s a chap I’d like to share a pint with at the local.

But fame and likability don’t a Churchill scholar make. And in that department, Boris Johnson needs some help.

His remarks are quoted from a November 14th speech at the Yale Club in New York City.

Boris Fact-checks

1) Lend-Lease, Roosevelt’s World War II “loan” of $50 billion worth of war materiel to the Allies, “screwed” the British.

I queried Professor Warren Kimball of Rutgers University, editor of the Churchill-Roosevelt Correspondence and several books on World War II, who wrote:

The U.S.…

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