In 1909, when the House of Lords rejected Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, Churchill responded by attacking the peers for their pursuit of class interests He became president of the Budget League...

Churchill wrote to Eisenhower in the final days of office (the letter is dated ‘April’; he resigned on 5 April) saying that he hoped he might still be able to ‘serve’...

Churchill had always maintained that he would not be “henpecked” into a decision on Votes for Women This was one of the main controversies to dog his tenure as Home Secretary...

Against mounting pressure from the government, parliament and the establishment for the king to abdicate, Churchill sided with the king, hoping perhaps that the king would give up his intentions, that...

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When read today with the luxury of hindsight, his comments on the Soviet Union seem comparatively moderate and restrained, but the war was only just over and this was not a...

Another incident was to prove similarly controversial and dogged Churchill not just through his tenure as Home Secretary but for many years after In November 1910, rioting and looting broke out during...

In January 1911 Churchill provoked further controversy as a result of his decision to personally oversee the police’s attempts to capture a group of Latvian anarchists, led by ‘Peter the Painter’,...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...