By Ashley Jackson Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College Oxford This article is the unabridged...

Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 45 Leslie Hossack, Charting Churchill: An Architectural Biography of Sir Winston Churchill, 2016, CAD $19649 Available exclusively online at wwwchartingchurchillcom Review by Stefan Buczacki Professor Stefan Buczacki is...

Finest Hour 175, Winter 2017 Page 26 “A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted” — Winston S Churchill By Edwina Sandys Edwina Sandys is a painter and sculptor A granddaughter of...

Finest Hour 175, Winter 2017 Page 50 By Stefan Buczacki A common trap that people fall into is to refer to Winston Churchill’s beloved country estate in Kent as “ Chartwell...

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

In the later years of his life, when it became known he liked animals, he was given them as presents: among the more exotic gifts were kangaroos, a platypus (which arrived...

Like many Victorian children, the young Churchill was an avid lepidopterist, collecting and pinning specimens from the fields around his prep school in the 1880s At the age of six, he...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...