All images belong to Blenheim Palace and/or ATS Heritage, which the exception of those listed below:

1.1 Distinguished Origins

Winston Churchill as a young child © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

George Charles Spencer-Churchill, taken from Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain.

Winston Churchill as a young main in Hussars’ uniform © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Lord Randolph Churchill, taken from Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain.

Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill and Jack Churchill © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Young Winston Churchill in Top Hat © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill portrait © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill in Military Uniform © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

1.2 Family Tree

Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill and Jack Churchill © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill Portrait © Library and Archives Canada, e010751643, taken from Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain.

2.5 Explore the Objects

Letter from Winston Churchill to “Mamma” © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Chartwell Papers, CHAR 28/13/1-1A.

3.1 Military Adventures

Winston Churchill as an army cadet © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images

Winston Churchill in Hussars Uniform © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill on horseback © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Churchill as a prisoner during WWI © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collections GBR/0014/BRDW.

Churchill as Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Belgium © Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo

Churchill greets Officers of the British Royal Navy Heavy Cruiser © Keystone / Stringer via Getty Images

3.3 Winston’s First World War

Winston Churchill in flying gear © Photo 12/Alamy stock photo

Winston Churchill visits Beardmores Gun Works, Glasgow, 1918 © Fremantle/Alamy stock photo

Troops at Galliopoli Front, 1915 © History/Bridgeman images

Churchill as Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Belgium © Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo

5.2 Beat the Beetle

Winston Churchill and Clementine in the gardens at Blenheim Palace © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection, GBR/0014/BRDW.

5.3 Explore the Objects

Letter from Clementine to Winston Churchill 13^th August 1908 © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell CSCT 1/1/6.

Letter from Clementine to Winston Churchill 12 September 1909 © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell CSCT 1/3/21-23

Letter from Winston Churchill to Clementine 21^st April 1909 © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell CSCT 2/2/1-2

6.1 The Prolific Writer

Selection of letters by Winston Churchill © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, Chartwell Archives and The Papers of Clementime Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell.

7.2 Wartime Leader

Winston Churchill Portrait © Library and Archives Canada, e010751643, taken from Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain.

8.1 The Great Statesman

Churchill speech at Blenheim Palace, 1947 © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1A F5 11.

Winston Churchill leaves No. 10 Downing Street, 1955 © Topical Press Agency/Stringer via Getty Images.

Timeline

Winston Churchill as a school boy © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, Churchill Press Photographs, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill as an army cadet © Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images

Winston Churchill as a young main in Hussars’ uniform © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill on horseback © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collection GBR/0014/BRDW.

Churchill as a prisoner during WWI © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collections GBR/0014/BRDW.

Churchill as a young MP © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, The Broadwater Collections GBR/0014/BRDW.

Winston Churchill when MP for Oldham © Rischgitz/Stringer via Getty Images.

Dreadnought battleship © Peter Newark Military Pictures/Bridgeman Images

Troops at Galliopoli Front, 1915 © History/Bridgeman Images

Churchill as Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the 6th Battalion, Belgium © Fremantle / Alamy Stock Photo

Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, carries dispatch box on his way to the House of Commons © Bettman/Contributor via Getty Images.

Winston Churchill with his daughter Mary at Chartwell © Print Collector/Contributor via Getty Images.

Churchill greets Officers of the British Royal Navy Heavy Cruiser © Keystone / Stringer via Getty Images

Winston Churchill planning the invasion of Sicily, 1943 © INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo.

Winston Churchill leaves No 10 Downing Street, 1955 © Topical Press Agency/Stringer via Getty Images.

Churchill’s grave at Bladon, taken from Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain.