POL 499: Senior Seminar [Winston Churchill]: Further Research

A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created by someone who lived through the event/time period. 

A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event.

Examples of secondary sources include:

• A journal/magazine article which interprets or reviews previous findings 
• A history textbook 
• A book about the effects of WWI 
• To obtain better results, searching using "Winston Churchill" AND "topic", with the  "topic" representing the idea, person, subject you are interested in.

Time line of some events, with books listed that cover that topic

Mines Act 1908, which provided for an 8-hour day in all mines

Trades Boards Act 1909 which established the first minimum wage system

Labour Exchanges Act 1909 setting up offices to help unemployed people find work.

National Insurance Act 1911 providing sickness and unemployment benefits.

•   Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden

The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill 1919-1940

1915 Gallipoli campaign, Naval Attack on Turkey

• The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure [Kindle Edition] by Dan Van Der Vat

 1919 Substantially reduced the RAF as Secretary of State for Air

 1922 He was in charge of drawing the map of much of the Middle East - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7526#sthash.fJJJL0HI.dpuf

Iraq, Turkey, Greece.... the Kurds..... Modern Day Middle East

•  Book: Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East by Warren Dockter
• Article: Winston Churchill and the Islamic World by Warren Dockter
• Book: Churchill’s Folly: How Churchill Created Modern Day Iraq by Christopher Catherwood 2004

1925  as Chancellor of the Exchequer he took Britain back on to the gold standard at the pre-war fix of $4.86 to the pound.

• The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill by John Maynard Keynes (ARTICLE). Excerpt of main points can be found online. Link to excerpt provided, above.
• Churchill by Keith Robbins

1929 he began his “wilderness years”, and adopted resistance to Indian self-government as one of his main causes. Could have gotten involved and rallied the British public much earlier if he had mended fences with his “Frenemies”? (Eden coalition)

• Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist by Lawrence James
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years by Martin Gilbert
• Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940. by William Manchester

1932 - opposed those who advocated giving Germany the right to military parity with France,

 Wrote The Gathering Storm (call # D743 .C47 v.1), and tried to warn of Hitler’s intent.

1936 Churchill was passed over for the post of Minister for Co-ordination of Defence; could he have obtained that post and accelerated Britiain’s military defense preparations?

Norway After Germany had occupied Norway and most of the German navy had been sunk or severely damaged, the British and French navies withdrew, rendering moot the lost ships, planes and men and allowing Germany use of a very long coast to sink the allied ships with submarines and planes, to attack the USSR from northern Finland and to bomb Scotland.

Year by Year: 1936 (Films on Demand)

1939 Poland over-run by Germany. Allies do not come to assistance.

•  No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II by  Kenneth K. Koskodan

1939 Chamberlain appointed Churchill to the Cabinet as the First Lord of the Admiralty

• Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M. Bell
• Year by Year: 1939 (Films on Demand)

1940 (July 3) Operation Catapult: Sinking of French Fleet.

1940 Battle of Dunkirk Churchill “ It was a colossal military disaster..wars are not won by evacuations”

•  Winston's War [Kindle Edition] by Max Hastings
• Blood, Sweat and Tears  by Winston Churchill (ebook) 1949
• Year by Year: 1940 (Films on Demand)

1941 Churchill again pleads with the US: "give us the tools."

• The United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and New Zealand declare war on Japan.
• ULTRA cryptography program launched

1942 World War II: Exeter becomes the first city bombed

• Citizens of London: American who stood with Britain in its Finest, Darkest Hour by Lynne Olson
• Churchill's Bunker: The Cabinet War Rooms and the Culture of Secrecy in Wartime London, by Richard Holmes

1943 Construction of prototype Mark I Colossus computer, the world's first totally electronic programmable computing device, at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, to assist in cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park, is completed