Winston Churchill: A beginner's guide
Churchill places
Blenheim Palace
www.blenheimpalace.com/
index.htm
The birthplace of Winston Churchill.
Churchill, soldier and journalist
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/tol_archive/article2833772.ece
Article by Eamon Dyas, Times group records manager, about Churchill's
unusual experiences as a young soldier doubling as a reporter in Cuba,
India and the Sudan.
Chartwell
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/
w-visits/w-findaplace/w-chartwell/
The house where Churchill and his family lived from 1922 to 1965,
the year of his death at the age of 90. The estate is now owned by the
National Trust.
Cabinet War Rooms
www.iwm.org.uk/cabinet/index.htm
The underground complex – now part of the Imperial War Museum – in
central London where Churchill spent much of World War II.
Winston Churchill in Madeira
www.madeira-island.com/features/churchill/
A rather bizarrely written account of Churchill's visits to the Portuguese
island – the last two being 50 years apart. Includes quotations from 'Mr
Keegan's Elopement', a short story that the future prime minister wrote
on the island.
USS Winston Churchill commissioned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1212911.stm
BBC News story about the commissioning of the first ship in the US
Navy to be named after a foreign leader.
