Winston Churchill: 50 years after his death the myth lives on
Churchill. (Getty)
When Sir Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965, there was a national outpouring of grief and nostalgia for a man who led old Britain against the Nazis so a new one could be reconstructed in its ruins, free from the tyranny of European fascism.
Churchill’s death marked a moment of passing from the old world to the new; a loosening from Edwardian stiffness to the social liberation of the 1960s.
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