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National Trust faces backlash for linking Winston Churchill’s home to slavery and colonialism Oliver Dowden said National Trust’s view of Winston Churchill was a surprise He called on the Trust to focus its efforts on ‘preserving and protecting’ heritage The Trust had published an audit that claimed 93 properties had slavery links By Vanessa Allen … Read more
Winston Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’ Christine Granville gets a blue plaque at hotel where she was stabbed to death by a stalker Christine Granville was one of the most effective special agents to serve Britain The wartime spy is believed to have inspired Ian Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd Only 14% of over 950 English Heritage Blue Plaques … Read more
Teenager, 18, is charged with defacing Winston Churchill’s Westminster statue branding the wartime leader ‘a racist’ Benjamin Clark, 18, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on October 9 He was arrested after Churchill’s plinth was yesterday daubed with yellow paint A slogan branding the wartime leader ‘a racist’ was sprayed on the stone plinth Scotland … Read more
Winston Churchill’s rousing speeches inspired a nation and played a key role in Britain’s morale during the dark early days of the Second World War. It was a time when the country was almost at its knees, with men dying and morale sinking. But Churchill’s defiant and powerful words allowed ordinary Britons, soldiers, sailors and … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Churchill’s grandson Nicholas Soames splits from his second wife By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:01 BST, 9 August 2020 | Updated: 00:14 BST, 9 August 2020 After 27 years of marriage, I’m sad to report that Sir Nicholas Soames and his wife … Read more
An affectionate letter from Sir Winston Churchill to his first great love has come to light. The future wartime prime minister was a 22-year-old junior officer when he met Pamela Bulwer-Lytton (nee Plowden), Countess of Lytton, in India in 1896. He was instantly infatuated, and told his mother in a letter on October 26, 1896 … Read more
Don’t pull down Winston Churchill’s statue: 140,000 Mail on Sunday readers demand the government blocks attempts to remove the wartime PM’s monument More than 140,000 readers have already signed the petition to secure the statue Churchill monument boarded up with metal sheets after being spray painted ** We call on the PM to publicly guarantee … Read more
Police and counter-protesters form a defensive ring around uncovered Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square as Black Lives Matter campaigners take to London’s streets for a fourth weekend Officers are guarding Sir Winston Churchill’s statue after the plinth was defaced during a BLM demonstration An estimated 600 people have gathered in Hyde Park today before … Read more
The move to board up the monument of Sir Winston Churchill has been compared by one Tory peer to the ‘fascist days of Islamic State’ in Syria. Tory Lord Marlesford said the targeting of statues amid fears of a clash between Black Lives Matters activists and far-right groups in the capital gave way to raising the … Read more
Winston Churchill’s picture mysteriously vanishes from Google’s list of British Prime Ministers amid furious row over statue of wartime leader Wartime leader’s picture has vanished from Google’s list of British leaders Clement Attlee and Neville Chamberlain’s images still show without issues Black Lives Matter protesters have called for his monument to be removed By Luke … Read more