Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Winston Spencer Churchill’
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After one of the worst outrages in modern British history, Winston Churchill stood up in the House of Commons to label the Amritsar Massacre an act of terrorism.
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When it opened in 1901, the Uganda Railway still wasn’t in Uganda, and Westminster’s MPs were still debating whether or not to build it.
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As a last, desperate throw of the dice in the Great War, the Germans detonated an unusual kind of weapon in St Petersburg.
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The heroic and charismatic statesman’s last journey was replete with echoes of his extraordinary life.