Churchillians sharing stories and planning out what inspired you about winston has been a lovely day and a half. We are more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. It was very exciting yesterday to hear celia and Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary. Part of the project we are doing, we plan to open the secretarys room in 2020. If you want to hear more about that, i terms of churchill and i, was trying to think of what we had in the collection. We got a gift from londonderry of a replica, its one of my favorite items in the house. I was interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee, we will hear a lot more about that. We have another family of brs, we have the view ews with us. , professor ofew politics at belfast. Bew, who isjohn i have that wrong. Bew is our politics expert, and john bew is history professor. They are going to give a talk this morning, starting off with john. [applause] can everyb
New york city, or to other areas around the country. It was built for shelburne, however, it served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. When that stopped at that point, Passenger Rail service in this region. It was then given to the Shelburne Museum for posteritys sake, to allow people to be able to see it. It is exhibited with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is typically seen in these stations. It was part of our founders collection at the time. It was moved overland from the center of shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest moves that had to happen for the building of the Shelburne Museum. This is a traveling Passenger Rail car, the grand isle, built in 1899 by the palace wagner car company just before it changed ownership to the Pullman Company at the time. The president of the Rutland Railroad, dr. William seward webb, also had use of this car until about 1915 with the Rutland Railroad as a Passenger
Secretarys room in 2020. If you want to hear more about that, theres something in your packs about the project. In terms of churchill and attlee i was trying to think of what we , had in the collection. We have a gift from londonderry of a replica, its one of my favorite items in the house. It is in the library. I was interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. And we will hear a lot more about that. We have another family of writers like the churchills. Bews with us this morning. Im very excited to hear what they will have to say. We have lord bew, professor of politics at Queens University at belfast. And we have john bew, who is professor of i have that wrong. I am sorry. Lord bew is our politics expert, and john bew is history professor, foreign affairs, and awardwinning historian. They are going to give us an excellent talk this morning starting off with john. Thee a warm welcome to bews. [applause] can everybody hear me ok . I wou
Thursday in parliament. Coming up theres universal condemnation of the President Trump tweets. President donald trump was wrong to retweet videos posted by far right Group Britain first. Some called for the president s state visit to be cancelled. No matter what diplomatic route we find to do it, we cannot simply roll out a red carpet and give a platform for the president of the United States to also sow discord in our communities. And a little bit of history is made. This debate is being interpreted into sign language, which i believe is a parliamentary first. So we may be making history in this debate, which is great. But first, the row over Donald Trumps retweeting of anti Muslim Videos has raised passions across parliament. The home secretary was called to the commons to answer an urgent question about the matter. Condemnation of the president came from all sides of the house. This is the president of the United States sharing with millions inflammatory and devisive content, delibe
45 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Its such a pleasure to be here in a room with fellow churchillians, sharing stories and pointing out what inspired you about winston. Its been a lovely day and a half. It was very exciting yesterday to hear Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary of chartwell. Power to the project were doing at chartwell, church hillills chartwell we plan to open the room in 2020. You plan to hear more about that. In terms of churchill, i was trying to think what we had in the collection from that, we have a gift from london, one of my favorite items in the house. Its in the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship from lord darian. Im going to hear more about that now. So weve got another family of writers like churchills here. Weve got the bews with us this morning. Very excited to hear what they are going to say. And we have lord bew, who is professor of politics at Queens Univer