Eddie Marsh Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Churchill’s Christmas, 1882-1947: Halcyon and Sterner Days

24 December 2019 Comments 0 Comments

“Churchill’s Christmas” is excerpted from a two-part article for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the complete text with footnotes, please click here.

To Churchillian colleagues, and most of all those who have encouraged and supported our Churchill work at Hillsdale College so many years: thank-you for being our friends.

Washington, 24 December 1941

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter… Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.…

Churchill By Himself: Errata and Future Editions

24 February 2019 Comments 3 Comments

Churchill by Himself

…is the only Churchill quotations book with each entry referenced with a date and source. There’s even an appendix on incorrect quotations (called “Red Herrings”), stating why they are not Churchill’s. By Himself is also the only Churchill quote book that has undergone repeated reviews to produce a text as close to Churchill’s original words as possible. Fortunately, it’s been continuously in print for over ten years, making constant revision possible.

Just before the first publication in 2008, we found that a transcriber had made many errors in copying out quotations.…

Churchill as Thucydides

18 July 2012 Comments 3 Comments

As a post-doc at Tübingen University (Germany) I am currently working on a paper about Sir Winston Churchill’s appreciation of Thucydides: did he possess a personal copy of the ancient historian’s History of the Peloponnesian War? I would be very grateful for any help. —O.S., Germany

I don’t know if Churchill had a copy of Thucydides’ History of the Pelopponnesian War at Chartwell (you might check with the house manager there). But if you are asking if Churchill read and appreciated the works of the great Greek historian, he certainly did. What’s more, the writings of Churchill were often compared to those of Thucydides.…