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...

Churchill was a keen bricklayer and, when his skills became known, was invited by a local branch official to join the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers’, an offer he promptly...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Although not often thought of as a sportsman, Churchill was a fine fencer in his schooldays, becoming English Public Schools Champion at fencing during his time at Harrow School...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

He enjoyed whiskey (Johnnie Walker, both Red and Black Labels), Hine cognac and, most famously perhaps, Pol Roger champagne In 1915 he painted ‘Bottlescape’ in homage to his favourite...

Here is Churchill’s wine and spirit account from March 1908, from Randolph Payne &Co This is a quarterly bill for wines and spirits totalling £163 19s 2d (including arrears of £135...