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

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.

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

8 Feb 2022: Our collections include records of women’s political work as politicians, suffrage campaigners, civil servants and ‘incorporated wives’.

14 Feb 2022: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Churchill’s impact. Churchill’s impact. As a backbench MP – i.e. a Member of Parliament but not in the Cabinet and holding no official position – Churchill had

11 Feb 2022: Analyse extracts from the text of Churchill's speech on resigning from the Government, House of Commons, 15 November 1915.

2 Feb 2022: How serious was the German naval threat to Great Britain before 1914? Look at the data given in the tables to answer this question.

14 Feb 2022: A full list of our archive collections which can be filtered by category, searched by keyword, or browsed alphabetically.

14 Feb 2022: Appeasement and public opinion. This part of unit two looks at how historians can work out what people in Britain thought of appeasement.

14 Feb 2022: How fairly was Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig judged by contemporaries? Take a look through key First World War events.

11 Feb 2022: What does this extract from the journals of Lord Esher reveal about General Haig and the Battle of the Somme?

14 Feb 2022: In the absence of regular opinion polls (and those are by no means always reliable) historians often look to newspapers. 

14 Feb 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to Churchill, rearmament and appeasement, then return to this page to complete the tasks.

11 Feb 2022: Extracts from text of Winston Churchill's speech on resigning from the Government, House of Commons, 15 November 1915.

11 Feb 2022: Note from Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) to Admiral Fisher (First Sea Lord), 8 April 1915.

14 Feb 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to appeasement and public opinion, and use the documents to complete the tasks on this page.

11 Feb 2022: Memorandum for Cabinet by Winston Churchill defending his Dardanelles policy, 15 August 1915. From the Churchill Papers.

11 Feb 2022: Letter from Churchill to Bonar Law (leader of the Conservative Party), 21 May 1915, justifying his role as First Lord of the Admiralty.

14 Feb 2022: Extract from the Daily Mail, 29 Oct 1938, “Oxford crystallises the true sentiments of the British people” about the Oxford City by-election.

14 Feb 2022: Reply from Quintin Hogg to Elizabeth Whitley, Oct 1938, responding to her letter about his election address and support for Chamberlain.

11 Feb 2022: Letter from Admiral Fisher (First Sea Lord) to Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), 5 April 1915, relating to the Dardanelles campaign.

11 Feb 2022: April 18. News of loss of submarine in Dardanelles. This reminds me that Lord Fisher told me he had protested against sending our new submarines to Dardanelles.

14 Feb 2022: It made headline news at the time: Churchill called the vote “abject, squalid, shameless” and “nauseating”, and it is even said to have misled Hitler into thinking the British had lost

14 Feb 2022: Quintin Hogg's election address, October 1938 (with his own crossings-out) for the Oxford City by-election.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Jimmy Langle, October 1938, congratulating Hogg on winning the Oxford City by-election

11 Feb 2022: On 9 Feb 1912 Churchill, newly appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty, made a public speech in Glasgow about the naval race.

14 Feb 2022: Extract from the Daily Mirror, 27 Oct 1938, “Will Oxford dare to annoy Hitler” about the Oxford City by-election.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Arthur Pillans Laurie, October 1938, about the Munich crisis, Czechoslovakia and appeasement

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Sir Denys Page, Professor of Greek, 31 Oct 1938, who saw the result of the Oxford by-election announced in Munich.

11 Feb 2022: Information sent to Rear-Admiral John de Robeck (formerly Naval Commander at the Dardanelles) by the Naval Intelligence Division, 1917.

14 Feb 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to Churchill, rearmament and appeasement, then return to this page to complete the tasks.

11 Feb 2022: Exercise in interpreting the data on the outcome of the naval race between Britain and Germany leading up to the First World War.

14 Feb 2022: Churchill's reply to Hankey, 21 Oct 1937, after Churchill had sent Hankey information about German rearmament which he had obtained illicitly.