"out and then when Churchill was appointed Prime Minister. After the war ended in 1945, Churchill was busy, first writing his history of that conflict and then as Prime Minister again between 1951 and 1955, and so it was not until the late 1950s, when Churchill was in his early eighties, that he was able to finish the work. The later volumes were completed when Churchill was over eighty. A full one-third of the last volume was devoted to the military minutiae of the American Civil War. Social history, the agricultural revolution, and the industrial revolution hardly get a mention."
"systems and structures of profit and greed"". In 2017 he was one of three recipients awarded the Seán MacBride Peace Prize ""for his tireless commitment to peace, his strong critiques to U.S. foreign policy, and his anti-imperialism"". Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called ""the father of modern linguistics"", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of"
"Winston Churchill as historian The British statesman Winston Churchill was a prolific writer throughout his life, and many of his works were historical. His better-known historical works include: """", ""The World Crisis"" (a history of World War I), ""The Second World War"", and ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"". Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for ""his mastery of historical and biographical description"". Churchill was an exponent of the view that the British and American people had a unique greatness and destiny and that all British history should be seen as progress towards fulfilling that destiny."
"gender and politics, ""The Isle of Pines"". In 1680 he published ""Plato Redivivus"", a political dialogue arguing that the growing number of property owners in England necessitated a wider distribution of political power. Henry Neville (writer) Henry Neville (1620–1694) was an English politician, author and satirist, best remembered for his tale of shipwreck and dystopia, ""The Isle of Pines"" published in 1668. In 1651, he was elected to the English Council of State, where he played a part in foreign policy. Later, he was in opposition to Oliver Cromwell, against whom he wrote some political pamphlets. Neville was born in"
"Empire emerging victorious in the French invasion of Russia in 1811 and in an invasion of England in 1814, later unifying the world under Bonaparte's rule. In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story ""P.'s Correspondence"", published in 1845. It recounts the tale of a man who is considered ""a madman"" due to his perceptions of a different 1845, a reality in which long-dead famous people, such as the poets Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, the actor Edmund Kean, the British politician George Canning, and even Napoleon Bonaparte,"
"Walter Olson argued for the pre-eminence of Macaulay as a British classical liberal. Thomas Babington Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His ""The History of England"" was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century. Macaulay"
"major work was the four-volume work ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"" (1956–58). In 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"". Churchill was almost always well paid as an author and, for most of his life, writing was his main source of income. He produced a huge portfolio of written work; the journalist and historian Paul Johnson estimates that Churchill wrote an estimated eight to ten million words in more than forty books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles,"
"the word’. An avid Conservative, he was a significant figure in the intellectual and political history of his party between the World Wars. In April–May 1917 he was a member of the Balfour Mission, intended to promote cooperation between the US and UK during World War I. Geoffrey G. Butler Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler (15 August 1887 - 2 May 1929) was an English historian, academic and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, 1923–1929. Butler was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse and"
"as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irishman so honoured. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize: these works include ""The Tower"" (1928) and ""The Winding Stair and Other Poems"" (1929). In addition to W. B. Yeats other important early modernist poets were the American poets T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and"
"in a book he co-authored with Brenda James, ""The Truth Will Out"" (2005), which hypothesizes that Sir Henry Neville (c.1562-1615), an Elizabethan Member of Parliament and Ambassador to France, was the real author of Shakespeare’s works. He blogs at https://nevilleandshakespeare.wordpress.com/ William Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein (born August 12, 1946) is a historian and author. His best-known work, ""Men of Property: The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution"", charts the rise of the 'super rich', a class he sees as expanding exponentially. Rubinstein was born in New York City, and educated at Swarthmore College and Johns Hopkins University in"
"Law"". He taught European History at Columbia from 1893 to 1897 while also working in the tobacco business. After retiring from business in 1903, he devoted his time to extensive research in British archives, and wrote three highly regarded and influential books on the British-American colonial period. In 1913 he was the first Loubat Prize recipient for ""The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660"", one of those books. His work ""The English Speaking Peoples"", was published in 1917. He stressed the successful workings of the commercial dimensions of the British Empire and was part of the ""Imperial School"" which"
"was disabled by a stroke, ending his public career. Despite never becoming Prime Minister, he was one of the most important British politicians of his day, as well as a renowned orator and municipal reformer. Historian David Nicholls notes that his personality was not attractive: he was arrogant and ruthless and much hated. He never succeeded in his grand ambitions. However, he was a highly proficient grassroots organizer of democratic instincts, and played the central role in winning the Second Boer War. He is most famous for setting the agenda of British colonial, foreign, tariff and municipal policies, and for"
"Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called ""the father of modern linguistics"", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and laureate professor at the University of Arizona, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism. Born"
"Polydore Vergil Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (""c."" 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the ""Proverbiorum libellus"" (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; ""De inventoribus rerum"" (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the ""Anglica Historia"" (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the ""Father of English History"". Vergil is sometimes referred"
"Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, ethics, and general philosophy. Though on rational grounds a champion of absolutism for the sovereign, Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of"
"""Anglica Historia"""". Polydore Vergil Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (""c."" 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the ""Proverbiorum libellus"" (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; ""De inventoribus rerum"" (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the ""Anglica Historia"" (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England. He has been dubbed the ""Father of English History"". Vergil is"
"his ""History of the English-Speaking Peoples"" his belief in Richard's guilt of the murder of the princes, adding, ""It will take many ingenious books to raise the issue to the dignity of a historical controversy"", probably referring to Tey's novel, published seven years earlier. The papers of Sir Alan Lascelles contain a reference to his conversation with Churchill about the book. In 2012, Peter Hitchens wrote that ""The Daughter of Time"" was ""one of the most important books ever written"". There have been two radio adaptations broadcast. First in 1952 (scriptwriter not credited) and on 25 December 1982 on BBC"
"awards include: Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian and poet. Conquest was most notable for his influential works of non-fiction including ""The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s"" (1968). He was a longtime research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He wrote more than a dozen books on the Soviet Union. Conquest was born on 15 July 1917 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, to an American father, Robert Folger Wescott Conquest, and an English mother, Rosamund Alys Acworth. His father served in an American Ambulance Field Service unit with"
"in 1878. The short-lived organization was established to lobby for restrictions on Chinese immigration during the 1878 election. Shakespeare’s politics were popular in the Victoria of his day. He was elected mayor in 1882. He was also elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament that year, defeating former B.C. Premier Amor De Cosmos in the Victoria district. Shakespeare was re-elected in 1887 but resigned his seat only three months later to become Postmaster for Victoria. Noah Shakespeare Noah Shakespeare (January 26, 1839 – May 13, 1921) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia noted for his involvement in the anti-Chinese"
"the first British Empire"" (2008); Piers Brendon, ""The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997"" (2008), and Phillip J. Smith, ""The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire: Mercantilism, Diplomacy and the Colonies"" (2015). There were also large-scale popular histories, such as those by Winston Churchill, ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"" (4 vol. 1956–58) and Arthur Bryant, ""The History of Britain and the British Peoples"" (3 vols. 1984–90). Obviously from their titles a number of writers have been inspired by the famous ""The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"" (6 vols 1776–1781) by Edward"
"""The Waste Land,"") and James Joyce. Below are a partial list of honours and awards received by T.S. Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour. These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date. Source: T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and ""one of the twentieth century's major poets"". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age"
"""A great leap in the dark,"" uttered in his final conscious moments. His body was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics"
"a prolific writer, often under the pen name ""Winston S. Churchill"", with the American novelist of the same name to avoid confusion between their works. His output included a novel, two biographies, three volumes of memoirs, and several histories. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 ""for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values"". Two of his most famous works, published after his first premiership brought his international fame to new heights, were his six-volume memoir ""The Second World War"" and ""A History of the English-Speaking"
"Thomas Dunn English Thomas Dunn English (June 29, 1819 – April 1, 1902) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a published author and songwriter, who had a bitter ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe. Along with Waitman T. Barbe and Danske Dandridge, English was considered a major West Virginia poet of late 19th-century. English was born in Philadelphia on June 29, 1819. He attended the Friends Academy in Burlington, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania"
"well versed in many fields of human knowledge to be called the ""Oracle of the century""; the philosopher Tommaso Campanella; the Cardinal Mazarin, a statesman, diplomat, and prime minister under Lous XIV; the imperial field marshal and statesman Prince Eugene of Savoy; the political philosopher Giambattista Vico; the noted jurist Cesare Beccaria; Giuseppe Mazzini, the leading spirit of the ""Risorgimento""; Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, its prime statesman; and Giuseppe Garibaldi, its foremost soldier and man of action. Notable intellectual and political leaders of more recent times include the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1907, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta; the sociologist"
"Thomas Babington Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His ""The History of England"" was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century. Macaulay served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the"
"4-8 cent, in the Champion of Liberty series. Kossuth Road in Cambridge, Ontario Canada was named in Kossuth's honor. Lajos Kossuth Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, Slovak: Ľudovít Košút, archaically English: Louis Kossuth) 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49. With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of Kingdom of Hungary. As the most influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of"
"MP Enoch Powell's famous Rivers of Blood speech made in 1968, in which he warns of the dangers of mass immigration. Powell's subsequent surge in popularity is often seen as a contributing factor in the Conservative party's surprise victory in the 1970 general election. Powell was heavily influential on prominent Brexiteer Nigel Farage, who lists the politician as one of his political heroes. It has been argued that the result was caused by differential voting patterns among younger and older people. According to Opinium, 64% of eligible people aged 18–24 voted, whereas 90% of eligible individuals over 65 voted. It"
"criminals for doing human things that we really need."" In ""Politics and the English Language,"" George Orwell quotes a paragraph from Goodman's essay ""The Political Meaning of Some Recent Revisions of Freud"" in ""politics"" as an example of bad English. The paragraph, says Orwell, ""if one takes an uncharitable attitude towards it, is simply meaningless."" In October 2011, a biographical documentary film ""Paul Goodman Changed My Life"" by Jonathan Lee was released. Paul Goodman Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic, and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social"
"Edward Channing Edward Perkins Channing (June 15, 1856 – January 7, 1931) was an American historian and an author of a monumental ""History of the United States"" in six volumes, for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. His thorough research in printed sources and judicious judgments made the book a standard reference for scholars for decades. Channing taught at Harvard 1883–1929 and trained many PhD's who became professors at major universities. Edward Channing was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the fifth child of Ellen Kilshaw Fuller (1820–56), a sister of Margaret Fuller, and William Ellery Channing (1818–1901), the"
"of Winston Churchill's ""History of the English-Speaking Peoples"". Churchill had begun to work on this massive work during his ""wilderness years"", in 1932, and it was in proof by the time he re-entered the Cabinet in September 1939, at which point he had to lay it aside. In 1953, once again Prime Minister, he returned to the ""History"", uncertain whether it was in a publishable state. His close friend Bracken advised him to take on Hodge as an editorial assistant, the introductions were made, and Hodge soon found himself leading a team of historians advising Churchill on necessary revisions. His"
"1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular ""Oxford History of the American People"" (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook ""The Growth of the American Republic"" (1930) with Henry Steele Commager. Over the course of his distinguished career, Morison received eleven honorary doctoral degrees, and garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall"
"Christopher Hibbert Christopher Hibbert (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert) MC (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008), was an English author, historian and biographer. He has been called ""a pearl of biographers"" (""New Statesman"") and ""probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific"" (""The Times""). Hibbert was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including ""The Story of England"", ""Disraeli"", ""Edward VII"", ""George IV"", ""The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici"", and ""Cavaliers and Roundheads"". In 1924 Arthur Raymond Hibbert was born in Enderby,"