Andrew Roberts, biographer and military historian, currently Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, is hosting a breakfast event at Skyscape.

Churchill: Walking with Destiny, is being published in October in the UK and November in the USA. Since the last major biography of him, forty-one sets of papers have been deposited at the Churchill Archives in Cambridge, and Her Majesty The Queen has graciously allowed me to be the first Churchill biographer to read her late father King George VI’s diary records of Churchill’s weekly audiences with him during the Second World War. I discovered the verbatim reports of the War Cabinet meetings over which he presided, which had never been used by any historian before, and I have worked on Churchill’s children’s papers by kind permission of his family, some of which are closed to other researchers. So there is a lot more to say about Churchill.

When: Tuesday, October 29 at 9am

Where: Skyscape – 928 8th Ave

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