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Themes • Key questions on Churchill: discussion, debate and historical controversy • Was Churchill a great orator? • The Sources

The Sources

Source no	Document reference	Date	Caption
1	➜ CHAR 8/13/1-13	1897	An unpublished pamphlet by Churchill called ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric’
2	➜ CHAR 2/21/1	July 1897	A newspaper report of Churchill’s first speech made to a meeting of the Primrose League in Bath
3	➜ CHAR 1/29/6	February 1901	Letter to Churchill from George Buckle, Editor of The Times, regarding problems with the reporting of Churchill’s maiden speech
4	➜ CHAR 21/12	January 1909	A newspaper report from The Times reporting Churchill’s speech to Liberal Party members in Birmingham
5	➜ CHAR 2/253/59-61	April 1936	Letter from Lord Cranborne to Churchill relating to a speech by Churchill on the Abyssinia crisis
6	➜ CHAR 9/150/A-B	January 1941	Two newspaper reports on an impromptu speech made by Churchill to the workers of Clydeside, Glasgow
7	➜ CHUR 2/226	March 1946	Telegrams from members of the American public to Churchill about his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech at Fulton Missouri
8	➜ CHUR 5/51A-C	June 1953	Speech notes for Churchill’s radio broadcast made immediately before the coronation broadcast of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953