A strange few days. At Churchill College, Cambridge, for extended archive stuff. A lovely college, even in the rain. But lots of Churchilliana scattered around - of course…

I once spent a few hours researching at their archive (RV Jones collection). Had to leave early because people were coming to gaze upon Margaret Thatcher’s handbag!

… My family were from industrial south Wales: coal miners or steelworkers on both my father’s and my mother’s sides. To a man and a woman they were brought up to revile Churchill - and would boo loudly whenever he appeared in a cinema newsreel during wartime. Plenty of reasons why, as we know…