The Intimate Secrets Inside The Home Of Winston Churchill | Historic Britain | Absolute History

Alan Titchmarsh and the team go behind the scenes at Sir Winston Churchill's former country house, Chartwell, in the Weald of Kent.
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  • @amandabrown4269
    @amandabrown4269 Жыл бұрын

    He was a dear friend of General Eisenhower. Churchill got him into painting as a way to relax. Ike painted all the way up to his heart failure.

  • @phmwu7368

    @phmwu7368

    Жыл бұрын

    Booktip: 2020 hardcover " Winston Churchill: Painting on the French Riviera " (208 pages - ‎ Unicorn Publishing)

  • @nanabutner

    @nanabutner

    Жыл бұрын

    Churchill use to go to Madeira Island, Portugal to paint. Câmara de Lobos has a resturant where he often went.

  • @dbach1025

    @dbach1025

    Жыл бұрын

    Awesome.

  • @carolweaver3269
    @carolweaver3269 Жыл бұрын

    "His purpose, his destiny, gave him the courage" Love that!

  • @dilihopa
    @dilihopa Жыл бұрын

    My parents survived the London Blitz. Their stories are still in my memory. Much loss and sadness.

  • @albertcross4275
    @albertcross4275 Жыл бұрын

    The greatest man of the 20th century, possibly one of the top ten of all time. Without him Germany would have ruled the World. 🌍🌎🗺️

  • @catherinescott8394

    @catherinescott8394

    Жыл бұрын

    The greatest leader in the 20th century. I visited his grave in 2006 and felt a strength as though he was present. I lay flowers at his grave four times each year, January 24th, the date he left us; May 8th VE Day in Europe, November 8th, Remembrance Day and November 30th his birthday. May he always be remembered as the man who saved democracy and freedom to the world.

  • @alanle1471
    @alanle1471 Жыл бұрын

    The most iconic British Statesman of the twentieth century.

  • @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631

    @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631

    Жыл бұрын

    Correction: he was and still is the greatest british statesman of all times.

  • @jonfranklin4583
    @jonfranklin4583 Жыл бұрын

    You said he was one of the most important British people of the 20th century, I would disagree. Sir Winston Churchill was the most single important person in the world in the 20th century. No one man besides him could have done what he did. Our president Roosevelt was a political animal who, though a former naval officer, went the way the political winds took him but Churchill was able, through their shared naval history and friendship, to convince him that the US must step into the fight. Churchill knew when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor he was safe because he knew he could convince Roosevelt of the need of helping Europe, and most importantly, Britain before committing full resources to the war in the Pacific. Without this steadfast knowledge and conviction of the overall picture, the world would be a far different and darker place. Winston Churchill was one of the finest minds regardless of what century and I believe he will be looked upon in the future as one of the great leaders of mankind.

  • @holly7869

    @holly7869

    6 ай бұрын

    Amen

  • @neilcampbell148

    @neilcampbell148

    5 ай бұрын

    Churchill was one of the greatest leaders, soeakers and writers in the history of mankind.

  • @neilcampbell148

    @neilcampbell148

    5 ай бұрын

    speakers

  • @Fairlight53

    @Fairlight53

    4 ай бұрын

    Well said. I agree Winston Churchill saved the World with his sheer determination.

  • @evitasdad
    @evitasdad Жыл бұрын

    Chartwell is a delightful place to visit, you could imagine it was such a wonderful place in which to live and work.

  • @nigeldewallens1115
    @nigeldewallens1115 Жыл бұрын

    My mum was in the WRAF and she had three other friends that stayed together! They all worked in a department, called SIRO'S it Stood for Special Intelligence Reporting Office! They had to report on at first, the V1's and then the V2's thy used to use a special hotline that went to His office but it was mostly Duncan Sands that answered the phone but mum told me there were times that she knew the phone had been picked up but no one responded and I know my mum wonders who she had reported to? My mum died in 2019 aged 95! To say he was a great leader is a kind of understatement frankly! Great Britain thankfully had the right man at the tight time!

  • @albertcross4275

    @albertcross4275

    Жыл бұрын

    Amazing, thank you, you should be so proud of your mother. 😊😊😊❤️❤️😊

  • @nigeldewallens1115

    @nigeldewallens1115

    Жыл бұрын

    @@albertcross4275 Sorry I did not reply sooner! Thank you kindly for that comment! My mum also used to do plating and used to hear all the pilots talking too! My mum did tell me the following re the V1's I do not know how this was don ok! they used to somehow get info back to the enemy that they had fallen much further south I it would make them send them further North but the Nazis sound realised that!!

  • @colleenkerr4152
    @colleenkerr4152 Жыл бұрын

    Asarn a a child of the '60s, my parents taught me about Churchill. He intriguesnme. So courageous. So determined. He speaks to my Canadian Irish stubburniss. JUST DO IT!! I want to learn more about him!

  • @dragoon6016
    @dragoon6016 Жыл бұрын

    Just magnificent. Thank you...

  • @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631
    @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631 Жыл бұрын

    By my standard mr. Churchill was the greatest statesman of all times.

  • @williamgorden6390
    @williamgorden6390 Жыл бұрын

    I love these videos! An absolute treat -- thank you!

  • @ericmalone3213
    @ericmalone3213 Жыл бұрын

    This documentary has left out the enormous quantities of champagne & brandy that Churchill consumed every day. He had a remarkable capacity for work and drink.

  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT Жыл бұрын

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THANK YOU! An Honest & Rare History Documentary about one of the most Fascinating Figures in all of Human History, Sir Winston Churchill - which didn't try to Character Assassinate him from the very beginning, in fact not at all, and is true to who he really was! Delightful to watch, so again; -Thank you, Absolute History! After having studied Winston my entire adult life, Chartwell is at the very top of my Bucket List of places to visit in the UK! And this episode just wet the whistle even more! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇳🇴👍

  • @user-md8jy4zz1p
    @user-md8jy4zz1pАй бұрын

    Thank you for the documentary relating to Winston Churchill. I now see another on the screen, spoken by Alan Titchmarsh, a firm favourite ❤️. Tears come easily when Winston Churchill is mentioned..

  • @robertristinge4385
    @robertristinge4385 Жыл бұрын

    Right man at the right time.

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 Жыл бұрын

    What I see missing from his study is his famous stand-up desk/podium. In his autobiography he describes his speech-writing as pacing up and down the room as said above but also stopping here and there at his standing desk-he never sat down.

  • @priestessthea
    @priestessthea Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this priceless, incomparable documentary. Absolutely brilliant!

  • @scottscottsdale7868
    @scottscottsdale7868 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love this video. Learning this I did not know. Thank you so much.

  • @gyrogeargoose
    @gyrogeargoose Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I enjoyed that very much. Bravo!

  • @lynnhuddleston3199
    @lynnhuddleston3199 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

  • @baylorsailor
    @baylorsailor Жыл бұрын

    I think it's even more fascinating that the cartoonist Ralph Barton's signature was just under Charlie Chaplin's in that registry book. He was a very famous cartoonist until he committed suicide before his 40th birthday. He knew everyone who was anyone in the 1920s. Unfortunately he's become a forgotten person in history. His signature is rare indeed.

  • @rickriddle

    @rickriddle

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey! I really appreciate your message and introducing us (me) to Ralph’s work. Thank you

  • @priscillawatson7049
    @priscillawatson7049 Жыл бұрын

    he was one of the remarkable leaders that shaped the UK. Bravo to a warm and informative documentary.

  • @glissandobartok9590
    @glissandobartok9590 Жыл бұрын

    Very knowledgeable, thank you

  • @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631
    @aleksanderkorencanstojakov3631 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent documentary.

  • @tony8074
    @tony8074 Жыл бұрын

    I love this series . Thank you.

  • @inspireaspire278
    @inspireaspire278 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful. Could you please research a bit on Malakand campaign, Churchill was part of it. Ramsay Clarke was commanding officer. Lateron he was General Ramsay Clarke, a blue blooded British.

  • @mvcharisma2968
    @mvcharisma2968 Жыл бұрын

    Churchill definitely seems like a better artist than Hitler

  • @aveenfearon9551
    @aveenfearon9551 Жыл бұрын

    What's with the ads every 5 minutes? It's a good show but there are way too many commercials.

  • @suzukablade
    @suzukablade Жыл бұрын

    Lol, even Churchill did clip-on ties!

  • @HoustonLong-im8rf
    @HoustonLong-im8rf6 ай бұрын

    British documentary narrators always seem so enthusiastic.

  • @susysubiono2001
    @susysubiono2001 Жыл бұрын

    Splendid mansion on earth...JBu in heaven Winston Churchill 🙏✨

  • @alanle1471
    @alanle1471 Жыл бұрын

    He never went to University yet he won a Nobel prize in Literature.

  • @madtabby66

    @madtabby66

    Жыл бұрын

    I tried to read his books. Couldn't make it through them.

  • @banjopete

    @banjopete

    Жыл бұрын

    @@madtabby66 ,develop an attention span!😇

  • @vonjess9
    @vonjess9 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @marshacreary2442
    @marshacreary24428 ай бұрын

    This explains so much

  • @cherylcallahan5402
    @cherylcallahan5402 Жыл бұрын

    *Absolute History appreciate your videos Listening 🌟 from Mass USA TYVM 💙*

  • @The-Cute-One

    @The-Cute-One

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey neighbor greetings from Connecticut. Yeah I absolutely love British TV shows. So well done & fun to watch. I hope you've seen all the period farm shows , staring Ruth Goodman those are wonderful.

  • @mishaross9412
    @mishaross9412 Жыл бұрын

    What is the name of the host of this episode??

  • @peacockfeathers7409
    @peacockfeathers7409 Жыл бұрын

    10:07 for the painting part

  • @johanminnaar1074
    @johanminnaar1074 Жыл бұрын

    One wonders whether the idea of guerilla tactics for the secret army came from the efficient use thereof by the Boers during the South African War - Winston Churchill was captured in this way.

  • @Sushi2735
    @Sushi27354 ай бұрын

    I toured a US working LST ship. It was spotlessly clean. You could eat off the floors we walked on. However, to the only lady who was not used to a military ship, as clean as it was, it smelled like the high school boys locker rooms. Those tunnels must have been the same way. I’m sure like anything, nose blindness occurs. The men I was touring the ship with never mentioned it. I certainly never said a thing, as I was so grateful to just see it.

  • @Hawk89gt
    @Hawk89gt3 ай бұрын

    Great video! I wonder why they wouldn't keep the cigars in a humidor. Seems like they qould be much better preserved.

  • @johnzeszut3170
    @johnzeszut3170 Жыл бұрын

    Yes he was a legend in his own mind.

  • @LamarrKee

    @LamarrKee

    Жыл бұрын

    And is Still a legend to many today.... and to my mind, deservedly so.

  • @holly7869
    @holly78696 ай бұрын

    Currently working my way through "Franklin and Winston" By Jon Meacham Narrated by: Grover Gardner. Really, really good.

  • @doreekaplan2589
    @doreekaplan25893 күн бұрын

    What did they do with so many rooms they could not use?

  • @stevepenney2073
    @stevepenney2073 Жыл бұрын

    it was a shack compared to Blenheim palace

  • @catherinelee3298
    @catherinelee3298 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing history❤

  • @danielsoucy6688

    @danielsoucy6688

    Жыл бұрын

    Show what he did behind closed doors! Politics in war times is a dirty bloody business to run! It was not easy at all!

  • @scottscottsdale7868
    @scottscottsdale7868 Жыл бұрын

    Wait. WSC didn’t actually tie his own bow tie

  • @l7846
    @l7846 Жыл бұрын

    As your Yankee cousin, I smile at 38:36... "point three eight, Smith & Wesson". You are welcome. 😎

  • @dennischallinor8497
    @dennischallinor8497 Жыл бұрын

    At 6:40, because the country was bloody well broke mate!!! Couldn't afford a Webley!

  • @Kondasnaker
    @Kondasnaker Жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @user-im9xq7fp5r
    @user-im9xq7fp5r Жыл бұрын

    this had skipped the whole "financial plight" aspect that had forced the Churchills to relinquish ownership of the place. The new property owner had agreed to allow the Churchills to stay on the premises his entire living years.

  • @samwaters1556

    @samwaters1556

    Жыл бұрын

    Aristocrats tend to be bad at budgeting 😂

  • @user-im9xq7fp5r

    @user-im9xq7fp5r

    Жыл бұрын

    @@samwaters1556 plus, just because one is a genius in dealing with war-time economy , doesn't mean one is equally adroit in dealing with peace-time economy.....

  • @johnkeller6063
    @johnkeller6063Ай бұрын

    He was a great man afrr all. He was half American. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧

  • @lucianasalles7272
    @lucianasalles7272 Жыл бұрын

    🌷

  • @patsirianni7984
    @patsirianni7984 Жыл бұрын

    He was the greatest leader of the twentieth century

  • @carolweaver3269
    @carolweaver3269 Жыл бұрын

    His grand daughter has my maiden last name! Not so normal a name either.

  • @suneethamay3615
    @suneethamay36153 ай бұрын

    Winston Churchill is Gustepa

  • @freemason4979
    @freemason4979 Жыл бұрын

    Alternate history : kzread.info/dash/bejne/lo2XurKQmNWwZc4.html

  • @HighFuel90
    @HighFuel90 Жыл бұрын

    Woa

  • @mariesaunders2740
    @mariesaunders2740 Жыл бұрын

    Why did he handle clothes and tie without white gloves?

  • @sulevisydanmaa9981
    @sulevisydanmaa9981 Жыл бұрын

    DECLARED war on us the finns of SUOMI. And did it on our Independence Day, the 6th of dec 41. And did it 4 NO GOOD reason. Mannerheim had just obstructed our offensive, pressured by the State Dept, against the Murmansk-Leningrad railline. But Winnie-the-Pooh, the most noble war-panda of the era, wanted to make some serious amends on that. Concurrently, he decided what he decided, AND did his deed towards the nation he had mere 2 yrs prior declared to be "the Light of Hope & the Volition of Unvarnished Patriotic Beauty of not just the harsh north but that of the whole humankind" ...(etc.) Cordially suggest we, the living ones, (not the dead ones ...) consequently & finally, grant this profound friend of ours the lofty monument-title of The Hypocrite Of The Century. Ahh, no way, can t be done...that belongs to Mr.Obama ....the man of the surgical surge...but oh, ... rereverse : It CAN be awarded - that heel ruled during a different century ... And (PS.) HMS VICTORIOUS even bombed the northernmost harboUr of Finland in july - sept 41, and did it twice !!! w civilians killed AND, I STRESS, WITHOUT A DECLARATION OF WAR, so a war-crime. And nearly a taboo subject matter incident in Albion STILL. Lest we 4get .... ... .. .

  • @stormrider1375
    @stormrider1375 Жыл бұрын

    "No living man [Churchill] bears so great a responsibility for the bloodshed of this war as this posturing lackey of Judah. At the same time, no more fitting representative could be found for the rotten old system against which Germany has been compelled to fight." - William Joyce, "Twilight Over England", 1940

  • @rmwein1948
    @rmwein1948 Жыл бұрын

    WSS wa lwss was a champion for freedom

  • @thebotformalityknownasdale2564
    @thebotformalityknownasdale2564 Жыл бұрын

    To bad he looked at people like me as a lower class "not quite as good as us" was how he treated natives ect. Much the same was as are liberal governments are today

  • @carolweaver3269

    @carolweaver3269

    Жыл бұрын

    Did he? Or do we think that as we think all with money must feel?

  • @matthewstokes1608

    @matthewstokes1608

    Жыл бұрын

    He loved working class Britons. He loved every inch of England… What nonsense you speak. He was born to extreme privilege - in a class ridden society - but he above all other Lords bulldozed through all the barriers to let his love of the lower classes be known. His favourite coastal town was Margate! He had a cat called Margate!

  • @rmwein1948
    @rmwein1948 Жыл бұрын

    Ws

  • @peterxd3610
    @peterxd3610 Жыл бұрын

    Churchill is the victim of a little village that could have military exercises

  • @Gleichtritt
    @Gleichtritt6 ай бұрын

    World War winner, good painter...he was Hitler wanted to be :D

  • @MSbabasayee
    @MSbabasayee Жыл бұрын

    Absolutel Abu sold out ? Chill chirchal Ge Abu Ge ? Ge Amy Ge

  • @MSbabasayee

    @MSbabasayee

    Жыл бұрын

    We have take permission from Amy Ge When father call saying 2 time Ge Ge and for mother 1 time Ge Amy

  • @MSbabasayee

    @MSbabasayee

    Жыл бұрын

    Shafique thank you 💜💕

  • @lyudmilaaksan2232
    @lyudmilaaksan2232 Жыл бұрын

    And here we are... digging trenches and hiding in root cellars in Ukraine, just like World War 2 never ended...

  • @Bluegrassprincess
    @Bluegrassprincess Жыл бұрын

    This man touching everything in the museum with bare hands. Its rude

  • @OstblockLatina
    @OstblockLatina Жыл бұрын

    Let's take a moment to remember the deaths, torture and centuries of persecution and repression of all those nations Churchill and Roosevelt didn't bother to fight on for, and whom they sacrificed by throwing them to the Soviet Union in exchange for the comfortable, untroubled, free existence at the more prosperous and fortunate side of the Iron Curtain, blind and deaf to the suffering of the betrayed Eastern European nations who fought by their side.

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to mention Churchill setting troops on his own people, the Black and Tans on the Irish, allowing Millions to die in India, Galipolli... Yet we have all this toe curling sycophancy. The way they carry on you would think he fought the war all on his Own! Makes you wonder how he fitted in all those naps, painting and baths between digging tunnels, writing speeches, bombing Germany, appearing Saviour like on clifftops.... This idea that the Brits worshipped him is a myth. The people did not 'choose him' they had no say in the matter. He was actually disliked Chamberlain had been trying to form a Coalition , but Labour said they would not work with him, but would work with another Tory. There were only 2 candidates! Churchill and Halifax. Halifax was a Lord, so felt he could not serve as PM . No one really wanted Churchill, Tories included, but he was the only one available. The Actual view of the people was he was not PM material in Peace time, but he was 'the right man for the job, at That time;' As my mother put it 'He was a good liar, and we needed a good liar' They booted him out soon enough after the war! But this is the Beeb I think, so not known for their reliability!

  • @matthewstokes1608

    @matthewstokes1608

    Жыл бұрын

    Churchill was the ONLY leader still arguing to fight on against Stalin, you fool! Nobody in Britain wanted to listen and he was VOTED OUT OF OFFICE! What on Earth are you talking about?

  • @hogwashmcturnip8930

    @hogwashmcturnip8930

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@matthewstokes1608 Yet you have never stopped to ask yourself Why he was voted out! Bless! And I always find it is the foolish who start throwing it around as an insult at others, because they are out of their depth.

  • @matthewstokes1608

    @matthewstokes1608

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hogwashmcturnip8930 Yes, he wanted to fight Stalin - he wanted to prevent Socialism from taking hold… Shame that the Brits were too tired of war to stop the obviously maniacal tyrant Stalin and the lying left - which would have saved millions of lives all over the world… But, he was voted back in again though - wasn’t he? Yet you have never stopped to ask yourself why… Bless!

  • @chrisgillard6129

    @chrisgillard6129

    Жыл бұрын

    @@matthewstokes1608 I will be the first to admit that I don't know history as well as I should. But I thought Churchill was voted out of office because he wanted to do a military campaign against India and that troublesome man Ghandi whom he despised.

  • @johnnybravo6951
    @johnnybravo6951 Жыл бұрын

    As an Islamophobe and Racist, with the blood of millions on his hands - _"one of the greatest Britons of the 20th century."_

  • @ianbutler1983

    @ianbutler1983

    Жыл бұрын

    I think your man bun is too tight.

  • @steveherje4025

    @steveherje4025

    Жыл бұрын

    True, and Hitler was an Islamophile. Get over it.

  • @kgspvgsp7569

    @kgspvgsp7569

    Жыл бұрын

    Im mean i don t see the problem

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    Cry with your woke eyes...🙄🤣🤣

  • @johnnybravo6951

    @johnnybravo6951

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SMichaelDeHart Woke eyes? So if I tell you Epstein was a pedo and a child trafficker it will be with my woke eyes as well...

  • @rhondaflowers3824
    @rhondaflowers3824 Жыл бұрын

    Half BRITISH! 😆

  • @teresawommack5148
    @teresawommack514820 күн бұрын

    Awesome home. What a interesting man. Such cool History.

  • @BillOweninOttawa
    @BillOweninOttawa Жыл бұрын

    Nothing but adulation. So boring and useless.

  • @petergrundy6234
    @petergrundy62348 ай бұрын

    An old Tory Racist. Like so many still today !!!!

  • @Josef_Amberger
    @Josef_Amberger Жыл бұрын

    He was no friend of art, he had let bombed german towns and had not felt bad about destroying so much architecture and art.

  • @HerrKurt

    @HerrKurt

    Жыл бұрын

    Ditto

  • @amandabrown4269

    @amandabrown4269

    Жыл бұрын

    @Johannes and everywhere else and the Nazis stole how many paintings?

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    It's called War...deal with it!!

  • @Josef_Amberger

    @Josef_Amberger

    Жыл бұрын

    art and wars are different things, it has nothing to do with any war

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Josef_Amberger okay scooter...

  • @HerrKurt
    @HerrKurt Жыл бұрын

    He's war criminal

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    Lmao 🤣 🤣

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    @@larkinblake1327 kind of ironic, huh?

  • @josklos2798

    @josklos2798

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SMichaelDeHart still asleep for facts ....

  • @josklos2798

    @josklos2798

    Жыл бұрын

    @@larkinblake1327 hilrious how you only know the history your handlers gave you

  • @SMichaelDeHart

    @SMichaelDeHart

    Жыл бұрын

    @@josklos2798 what??!! Awaken me Einstein...

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

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