Churchill helped found Churchill College in 1960 at the University of Cambridge It was established by Royal Charter and has been part of the University ever since Churchill’s aim in founding the...

When Winston Churchill was born in 1874, W E Forster’s Education Act, which is widely regarded as the beginning of modern mass education in this country, had only been on the...

Churchill was MP for a constituency in Essex (Epping, from 1924–45; later called Woodford, 1945–65) Believing that the country needed to ‘increase our resources of higher education’ as it moved into...

At Banstead Manor, one of his childhood homes, Churchill played ‘soldiers’ with his brother, building a ‘Den’ (a log fort) surrounded by a moat and with a drawbridge, defended with a...

Songs are a key part of life and tradition at Harrow and are sung every term and as a whole School ‘Churchill Songs’, a key event in the school’s calendar, is...

Churchill College, Cambridge, the national and Commonwealth memorial to Churchill Opened in 1960, it is home to the Churchill Archives Centre, which holds the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and almost 600...

His entry into Sandhurst in 1893 was delayed when he fell off a bridge near his aunt’s house into a tree, during a game of ‘chase’, and was laid up in...

His ‘conduct’ was ‘exceedingly bad’, according to his headmaster; he couldn’t ‘be trusted to behave himself anywhere’ Churchill was always independent-minded and challenging, and had a natural tendency to...

Some have said that dyslexia may have been the cause of Churchill’s difficulties at school but in fact he himself probably played up his low grades in his autobiography, My Early...