Good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at canterbury, Christchurch University in the United Kingdom. He has written quite a few books, one o
Talking about what it was like to be a secretary at chart well. And part of the project were doing we plan to open the secretary room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, theres something in your pack act the project. In terms of churchill and island. I was thinking what we had in the collection. About that. We have a gift from london. Of a replica of one of my favorite items in the house. In the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. Well hear more about that now. So we have another family of writers like the churchills here. We have the bews with us this morning. We have lord bew. Professor of politics at Queen University in belfast. And we have john. Who is professor of i have that wrong. So lord bew is the politics expert. And john is the history professor and Foreign Affairs and Award Winning historian. Theyll give us an excellent take this morning. Starting off with john. Can we have a big wa
Now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin ruane is professor of modern history at canterbury, Christchurch University in the United Kingdom. He has written quite a few books, one on vietnam and one is coming out very shortly on anthony eden. And that will be a very interesting one because he had such a long history with grand papa. He is working on now so
Ireland. And Clement Attlee. From new york city, this is about 45 minutes. Good morning everybody. Its such a pleasure to be here. In a room with fellow sharing stories. And finding out what inspired you about winston. Its been a lovely day and a half. Were more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. And it was very exciting yesterday to hear Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary at chart well. And part of the project were doing we plan to open the secretary room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, theres something in your pack act the project. In terms of churchill and island. I was thinking what we had in the collection. About that. We have a gift from london. Of a replica of one of my favorite items in the house. In the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. Well hear more about that now. So we have another family of writers like the churchills here. We h
Nuclear weapons. This is 45 minutes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. To introduce our next speaker of the morning, we have another very special lady, please welcome edwina sands. [ applause ] good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now, we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, t