News From the Front
WISHING YOU THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS!
We share with you a wartime Christmas gift from Clementine Churchill to her youngest child, Mary, who spent Christmas 1943 apart from her family, in London, manning a Hyde Park anti-aircraft battery as an officer in the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
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HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE RETURNS TODAY! IN HONOR OF WINSTON CHURCHILL’S 150TH BIRTHDAY!
We are delighted to invite you once again for HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE, one of our oldest traditions here at Chartwell Booksellers, featuring, as ever, VINCE GIORDANO & HIS NIGHTHAWKS.
SATURDAY~DECEMBER 21~3:00-6:00PM here in our lobby at Park Avenue Plaza. Come and Dance!
CELEBRATE CHURCHILL’s 150TH BIRTHDAY WITH OUR NEW CATALOGUE
Saturday, November 30, was Winston Churchill’s 150th Birthday. Celebrate with us, as we have for so many years, by enjoying our new catalogue of Churchilliana; just out.
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JOIN US NOV. 26 @ 1:00 PM FOR A READING BY CELIA IMRIE OF HER NEW NOVEL, “MEET ME AT RAINBOW CORNER.”
Celebrate Winston Churchill’s 150th Birthday with us and British film star Celia Imrie, reading from her captivating new novel, MEET ME AT RAINBOW CORNER; a London-during-the-Blitz-page-turner centered on a Piccadilly social club for U.S. troops called Rainbow Corner. Cake and champagne will be served!
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REMINDER: JOIN US THIS MONDAY, NOV. 18 @ 1:00 PM FOR KATHERINE CARTER READING FROM HER NEW BOOK, “CHURCHILL’S CITADEL.”
Celebrate Winston Churchill’s 150th Birthday with us and our friend Katherine Carter, curator of the house and collections at Chartwell (Manor), as she reads from her new book: “CHURCHILL’S CITADEL: Chartwell and The Gatherings Before the Storm.” Cake and champagne will be served!
Read More »~NOVEMBER IS WINSTON CHURCHILL’S 150TH BIRTHDAY~
Join us for two special lunchtime Churchill Birthday events in our lobby at Park Avenue Plaza. Cake & Champagne will be served.
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OCTOBER AND “MY EARLY LIFE”
October is the anniversary month of MY EARLY LIFE’s publication. Released on October 20, 1930, MY EARLY LIFE remains the most delightfully readable of Winston Churchill’s books, his only volume of personal memoirs, and a testament to Churchill’s greatest personal attribute: Resiliency.
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BANNED BOOKS WEEK & WINSTON CHURCHILL
In honor of Banned Books Week, we are again donating one dollar from every sale we make this week to PEN America in support of their Banned Books Week fight for the freedom to read whatever you (and your children) want to read.
Join us in Churchillian resistance to Nazi-like censorship.
SEPTEMBER BRINGS CHARTWELL
September is the month in which Winston Churchill purchased Chartwell. First shown the derelict Chartwell Manor in July 1921, Churchill instantly fell in love with its magnificent views overlooking the Weald of Kent. When the house failed to sell at auction, Churchill pounced. Five days after his daughter Mary was born, on September 24, 1922, his new offer was accepted. The rest is Churchillian history… and, ultimately, our history too.
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AUGUST AND “THE FEW”
August will always be the month of “The Few,” perhaps Winston Churchill’s most eloquent speech of inspiration, delivered on August 20th 1940 to the House of Commons extolling victory in “The Battle of Britain.” One can find “The Few” in many different corners of Chartwell Booksellers.
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JULY AND OUR LIBERTY RESTORED
This 4th of July weekend brings the restoration of our liberty here at Chartwell Booksellers, as a years-long lobby construction/obstruction project has ended. Come visit us in July and we will welcome you once again, freely, and without obstructions.
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A PAINTING RETURNS IN JUNE
It’s no secret that Winston Churchill detested the portrait of him infamously painted by artist Graham Sutherland in honor of Churchill’s 80th Birthday in 1954. Sutherland painted a number of studies of Churchill as he labored toward this final portrait. One of them was auctioned at Sotheby’s this month.
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