• ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’  Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle.

    Sixties Room Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Free lecture by Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London. British history is often seen as being, as David Cannadine once put it, ‘In Churchill’s Shadow.’  It is, therefore, revealing to put Churchill alongside de Gaulle because de Gaulle is the one politician in a democratic country to have enjoyed a stature comparable […]

  • The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective

    Churchill College Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom

    On 15 November 1985 the governments of the United Kingdom and of Ireland signed an Agreement – with the status of an international treaty – which stipulated that Dublin would have a consultative role in the administration of Northern Ireland. This marked the most important constitutional and diplomatic development in Anglo-Irish relations since Partition in […]

  • Geopolitical Risk: Learning from the Past – Shaping the Future. 

    Møller Institute Storey's Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    A Churchill Archives Conference  “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and the world, but no one paid any attention.”  In Fulton, Missouri […]

  • ‘Operation Catapult’: A discussion of a new book by Bill Whiteside about the sinking of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940

    Jock Colville Hall Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    The author will be in conversation with Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. The Associated Press called the Royal Navy’s July 1940 attack on the French fleet “the strangest of all naval actions in the world’s history,” and said Winston Churchill’s ensuing speech to the House of Commons was “like no other ever […]