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March 28, 2015

Finest Hour 131, Summer 2006

Page 38

By Andrew Roberts

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On 12 November, 1940, in praise of the recently deceased Neville Chamberlain, Churchill said: “History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.”

What he was talking about—the practice of history—is what I would like to talk to you about today: how various writers have tried to affect Churchill’s reputation, including in the massive new medium of cyberspace.

It should be recognised that all history is to a certain extent revisionist: that is not necessarily a negative thing. Revising what has been thought by previous generations is what history is about. Churchill’s reputation has gone through several phases from the 1950s, when it was largely hagiographic, to the 1990s, when a new, aggressive, carping tone appeared.

The British Library lists thousands of books with Churchill’s name in the title, but it is largely the case that his reputation has remained to an astonishing degree unaffected. He has become an international icon, whose reputation no new information or novel historical analysis will alter.

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Churchill: Forty Years On

When asked what aspects of Churchill’s life needed more study, Martin would answer – Churchill’s humanitarian and domestic policies.  So on this, the 7^th anniversary of Martin’s death, here is some of what he wrote in that vein:

 

Areas of Churchill’s humanity emerge repeatedly in his story.  As Home Secretary he did his utmost to urge clemency in capital murder cases, and drastically reduced solitary confinement in Britain’s prisons.  He also improved conditions for prisoners.  Recalling his own time as a prisoner in South Africa, he told a friend, about the prisoners who had become his responsibility:  “They must have food for thought – plenty of books – that’s what I missed most – except of course the chance of breaking bounds and getting out of the damned place – and I suppose I mustn’t give them that!”  As a result of Churchill’s efforts, libraries made their first appearance in Britain’s prisons.

When Churchill entered the Home Office in 1910, more than five thousand young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one were imprisoned each year. He acted at once to change this.  Under his new rules, no young person could be sent to prison “unless he is incorrigible or has comm