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David Lough signs for four Churchill lecture series on QM2 in 2020 and 2021
Author David Lough will reprise his Churchill lecture series on the QM2 for US travel firm Road Scholar on four more crossings of the Atlantic in 2020 and 2021. Road Scholar inaugurated the series in May 2019. The response from travellers was so strong that the Churchill’s Finest Hour trip will be repeated in May […]
READ MOREDavid Lough in ‘Better Known’ podcast with Ivan Wise
Better Known, the podcast hosted by Ivan Wise, asks those in the public eye to talk about six things in life which they feel should be better known than they are. Ivan put the questions to author and historian David Lough. Listen here to David discussing his choices.
READ MOREDavid Lough on ‘Churchill’s Early Years, interviewed on historic.ly podcast
Historic.ly, a podcast hosted in the USA by Esha, and distributed by Substack on ApplePodcasts, interviewed author David Lough on ‘Churchill’s Early Years’. Esha quizzed David on the importance of these early years for Churchill’s development, as revealed by his research for both No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money and Darling Winston: Forty years […]
READ MORENo More Champagne talk at London’s Ten Trinity Square Private Club
Historian David Lough will be talking in March 2020 to members of the exclusive new Ten Trinity Square Private Club in London. The club, a joint venture between Four Seasons Hotels, Chateau Latour and the Reignwood Group, is oriented toward fine wine. So David will include stories of Winston Churchill’s tastes and habits in drinking […]
READ MORESporting Films buys No More Champagne documentary rights
Documentary maker Sporting Films Ltd has acquired exclusive rights to make a TV documentary about Winston Churchill’s chaotic personal finances based on the book No More Champagne written by david Lough and published in 2015.
READ MOREDarling Winston leads Daily Mail 2018 Books of the Year: Letters and Dairies
Darling Winston, edited by David Lough, leads the Daily Mail‘s picks in its 2018 Books of the year list of Letters and Diaries. Also highlighted were Philip Larkin: Letters Home, edited by James Booth, and The letters of Sylvia Plath, edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kuki. ‘This sparkling volume will be devoured by all who revere […]
READ MOREChartwell Speakers recruits David Lough
Chartwell Speakers recruits author David Lough as keynote speaker Chartwell Speakers has recruited Churchill author and historian David Lough to join its roster of keynote speakers that includes world-class scientists, economists, politicians, historians and inspirational thought-leaders. Established in 2007, Chartwell handles bookings of speakers for a wide range of events in the U.S.A., Middle East […]
READ MOREHeywood Hill puts Darling Winston on Xmas list
Famous London bookshop Heywood Hill has listed Darling Winston among its top picks in its keenly awaited Christmas book gift recommendations fir 2018. For the full list see here.
READ MOREDavid Lough to sign books at Hatchards Christmas Customer Evening on 29 November 2018
Hatchards Christmas Customer Evening David Lough, whose latest book Darling Winston was published by Head of Zeus in September 2018, will join authors invited by Hatchards bookshop in Piccadily to sign books at their Customer Evening on Thursday 29 November from 6-8pm.
READ MOREThe Atlantic Monthly features My Darling Winston excerpt
My Darling Winston earns ‘A Very Short Book Excerpt’ feature The Atlantic Monthly selected a letter from My Darling Winston to fill its famous ‘A Very Short Excerpt’ feature in its October 2018 issue. In the letter, Jenny Jerome (better known as Lady Randolph Churchill) upbraids her 15-year old son for his lack of application at Harrow […]
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