Winston Churchill

The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the ‘Tory’ group in parliament which emerged in the last quarter of the 17th century and, led by Lord Bolingbroke (pictured) and Robert Harley, held power during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

A brief history of the Conservative Party

(Image by Paul Hewitt – Battlefield Design)

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D-Day in numbers: 5 infographics that show the big picture

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

Winston Churchill making the famed ‘V’ for Victory sign. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Winston Churchill

David Reynolds talks to the History Extra podcast. (Illustration by Hugh Cowling)

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Letters from World War Two leaders

Blenheim Palace in a c1880 print from ‘A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume I, William Mackenzie, London. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

10 things you might not know about Blenheim Palace – ‘the real Downton Abbey’

1949: Clementine with husband Winston Churchill at Epsom racecourse for the Derby. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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6 surprising facts about Clementine Churchill

Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in WWI. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Churchill’s navy

French government officials at an inaugural tour to mark the completion of the main structural work on the Eiffel Tower, c1889. (Time Life Pictures/Pix Inc./The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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10 historical events that happened in March

Contrasting biographies of iconic leader Winston Churchill show how perceptions of historical figures change with the passing of time, says David Cannadine. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Why Churchill’s reputation is still on the line

Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Did Churchill’s postwar speeches save the world?

The president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt and his staff gathered together in New York to find a solution to the economic crisis. 1935. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Icons: the game changers of the 20th century

Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt exchanged almost 700 messages during the Second World War. (Illustration by Hugh Cowling for BBC History Magazine)

Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt: the big three’s war of words

Sir Winston Churchill leaves his London home for Chartwell, Kent. (Photo by PA-Images)

A new life of Churchill

Winston Churchill pictured in July 1964, a few months before his 90th birthday – a milestone that he marked with tears. The prime minister would cry at everything from suffering pets and march-pasts to dying friends and poetry recitals. (Picture by PA Images)

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Churchill: The ‘cry-baby’ war hero