He was the greatest prime minister Britain ever had, according to many public polls, and certainly the most famous internationally.
He is the only PM to have been born in a palace (Blenheim), switched from the Tories to the Liberals and back again, and was MP for a Manchester seat from 1906-08.
But was Winston Churchill simply the statesman who led the allies to victory in the Second World War or a repressive, authoritarian figure who opposed women having the vote and shamefully used tear gas on Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq in the 1920s?
As part of the commemorations surrounding the 50th anniversary of his death, Ed Glinert, Manchester tour guide and author, details the life of a legend in this illustrated talk at the Portico Library this Thursday
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