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26 Jan 2022: Government and Civil Service reaction to Churchill's interventions on rearmament. Maurice Hankey discusses the "Winston problem", March 1937.

2 Feb 2022: Churchill was jubilant, remarking when he heard the news of Pearl Harbor: “So we have won after all!”.

11 Feb 2022: When he was writing "The World Crisis", Churchill asked Haig to comment on the drafts of the chapter dealing with the events of 1917-18.

26 Jan 2022: Lindemann clashes with the Air Defence Research Committee. Letter from Professor Sir Henry Tizard to Professor Lindemann, 18 June 1936.

25 Jan 2022: Churchill warns of German rearmament. Extracts from text of Churchill's speech in the House of Commons, 19 March 1935.

27 Jan 2022: In Oct 1938, shortly after the Munich crisis, Churchill received this letter from a leading Liberal politician asking about military strength.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill looks back at the death in 1936 of Ralph Wigram, one of Churchill's most important sources of information from within Whitehall.

28 Jan 2022: Some on the left distrust Churchill's motives for his stand against appeasement, G F Hudson writes to Patrick Gordon-Walker.

11 Feb 2022: Haig and his critics: compare a memo by Lord French to the War Cabinet in 1917 and Maurice Hankey’s diary entries from 1917-1918.

14 Feb 2022: Challenge the view of Churchill in the 1930s as a “Great Man”, and consider the political figures Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.

22 Feb 2022: An exhibition, on display 2018-2019, to mark the centenary of the 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act.

11 Feb 2022: Key words, terms, and names included in The Churchill Era educational resource may be checked in this glossary.

11 Feb 2022: Compare three documents from 1908-1909 relating to the naval race between Germany and Britain, and answer questions about the documents.

14 Feb 2022: The Oxford by-election gathered international interest. The news magazine Picture Post commented:. ... The centre of Oxford is dominated by its ancient university, where dons (university teachers) and students would read the latest newspaper reports and

11 Feb 2022: As the twentieth century dawned, for the first time Britain's naval power was challenged, by the strong new empire of Germany.

14 Feb 2022: What was Churchill's reputation in the 1930s? General opinion of Churchill was much less favourable than it was of Baldwin or Chamberlain.

14 Feb 2022: In 1934 the League of Nations Union Ilford organised a local referendum on the League, Locarno treaties, disarmament and the arms trade.

28 Oct 2022: This exercise focuses on a report to London by Hugh Watson, Naval Attaché (naval expert) at the British Embassy in Berlin, 12 March 1913.

19 Jul 2022: Recordings of talks from the Keeping and Making Diaries conference, held over 3 days at Churchill College in March-April 2022.

21 Dec 2022: Speaking on the news, Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre said:. ... As the reaction to this news shows, there is huge research interest in her as a political figure and in the events of her life and premiership, and the material