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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.

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

14 Feb 2022: A D Lindsay's election address, October 1938, for the Oxford City by-election. Focusing on appeasement, peace, and the League of Nations.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Elizabeth Whitley, Oct 1938, responding to his address for the Oxford City by-election and support for Chamberlain

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

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.

20 Jan 2022: the news of their engagement, timing it for maximum political advantage.

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.

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.

21 Dec 2022: An introduction to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, including a complete list of classes and custodial history.

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

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

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.

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.