June 25, 2015

Finest Hour 122, Spring 2004

Page 41

By the Editor


We were somewhat bemused to hear recently an apparent newlydiscovered truth in some quarters that our main mission is education. The adjacent celebration of Sir Martin Gilbert’s Chicago Humanities lecture reminds me to note a fact that seems to have become obscure: that education, on Churchill, his life and times, and his example of leadership, has been our paramount goal for at least fifteen years.

It was to the Fifth International Churchill Conference, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1988, that we first invited Churchill scholars. They were ecstatic that at last someone had provided a venue where they could meet, debate, exchange theories, and lecture on current Churchill historiography.

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Since 1988 we have hosted conferences, lectures and seminars attended by hundreds of students, with many of them addressing the assembly; and seminars where students could converse directly with scholars, and tell us what they learned about Churchill. This resulted in some marvelous new insights that even our academics were pleased to admit they hadn’t considered.

Many student contributions will be found in back numbers of our Churchill Proceedings, the seventh edition of which, covering 19982000, is to be published shortly.

To hear some, one would think we have just discovered young people. In fact, everything we do, including this journal, is aimed at “teaching the next generation”: a phrase coined by Merry Alberigi in 1990, and one that is still appropriate.

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