Randolph S. Churchill Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Catherine Zoë Spencer Churchill, 1968-2022: A Remembrance

15 July 2022 Comments 0 Comments

Catherine’s particular interest was Sir Winston’s paintings. She had studied art history at the British Institute in Florence, worked in the Victorian paintings department of Sotheby’s and the Director’s Office of the National Arts Collection, now the Art Fund. She brought these credentials to the research and cataloguing of Churchill's art.

Old Victory’s Pride (Extended Review): “Churchill & Son” by Josh Ireland

10 April 2021 Comments 1 Comment

"Randolph, Hope and Glory": Writing his father's biography was his chance at redemption, “to create a lasting record of his love and devotion to the man he had loved more than any other person he had ever known. In the process of telling the story of his father’s life, he belatedly gave meaning to his own.”

“Winston S. Churchill”: The Triumphant Story of the Official Biography

19 October 2020 Comments 0 Comments

This history of the Official Biography was first published in Finest Hour 190, Fourth Quarter 2020

“We go back a long way,” Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn recently reminded me. “I knew Dal Newfield.” He realized that would invoke a fond memory. A few still remember the man responsible for where some of us are today.

Dalton Newfield was a Sacramento army veteran who had admired Winston Churchill since he saw him live during World War II. In 1970, I shrank away from Finest Hour after the first eleven issues. I was clearing the decks for an automotive writing career in New York City.…