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051: Jennie Jerome Churchill Part 1: Her Early Years, Time in France, and Meeting Lord Randolph Churchill

Hello! In this weeks episode we start our deep dive into the life of Jennie Jerome Churchill. In todays epsiode we start our look by getting a grasp on her parents seperate fortunes, the time the family spent in Paris France in the court of Empress Euguinie, and the first meeting between Jennie and…

Pamela Churchill Harriman

In this episode of The Oldest Profession Podcast, host Kaytlin Bailey celebrates the life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, a remarkable woman whose journey kept her at the forefront of history through the 20th century. Born in 1920, Pamela came of age on the cusp of WWII, marrying Randolph Churchill d…

159. Jennie Jerome Churchill

Decades after a band of British colonists in the new world gained independence from the Crown, a funny thing happened: wealthy American women began returning to the ancestral homeland to find impoverished but titled Englishmen needing wives - and cash. It was a match - actually, hundreds of them - …

Despatch: Thatcher's ownership revolution isn't over

As younger voters grow disillusioned with a housing system that denies them real control over their homes, the battle over leasehold has become a test of whether capitalism still delivers on its promises. In this essay, Harry Scoffin, founder of Free Leaseholders, argues that reforming — and ultima…

General Paralysis of the Insane

Welcome to Beyond the Knife– where history and medicine collide. In this episode, we’re joined by author and Neuropsychologist Andy Ellis. Andy explores General Paralysis of the Insane, a devastating neurological condition that once baffled the medical world. Through the case of Sir Randolph Church…

The Power Line Show: A Few Minutes with Edward Blum

When the history of civil rights in our time is finally written—though no history is ever “finally” written of course—honest writers will mark the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative action admissions cases as a key turning point in restoring the …

S8 Ep856: Sonia Purnell describes the 1939 marriage proposal between Randolph Churchill and Pamela Digby, who met for the first time at a London dinner. Pamela, a 19-year-old aristocrat from an isolated, cash-strapped Dorset estate, accepted the unromantic proposal

Sonia Purnell describes the 1939 marriage proposal between Randolph Churchill and Pamela Digby, who met for the first time at a London dinner. Pamela, a 19-year-old aristocrat from an isolated, cash-strapped Dorset estate, accepted the unromantic proposal as a strategic means of escaping her stifl…

White’s: The Story of Britain’s Most Infamous Gentlemen’s Club

For more than three centuries, White’s has stood at the centre of British establishment life. Born as a chocolate house in the seventeenth century, it evolved into the most famous gentlemen’s club in the world, a place associated with prime ministers, princes, gamblers, dandies, soldiers and some o…

The Boy Nobody Believed In

This opening episode explores the unlikely beginnings of Winston Churchill, a boy born into privilege and expectation who nevertheless struggled academically and desperately sought the approval of a distant father. From an uneven school career and repeated setbacks gaining admission to Sandhurst, C…