This year marks several milestones in the Sir Winston Churchill legacy. With this coming Saturday commemorating 50 years since the death of ‘Our Greatest Briton’. May 2015 also honours 75 years since Churchill became wartime British Prime Minister. Dan Cooper rounds up the best events to remember one of the most inspirational, most insightful and most important leaders in the history of Great Britain
23 January Churchill: Science in War and Peace exhibition at the Science Museum, London sciencemuseum.org
24 January 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s death
30 January Havengore Journey from Tower of London to Festival Pier citycruises.com
30 January Evensong at Westminster Abbey
30 January Death of a Hero exhibition in Chartwell, Kent nationaltrust.org.uk
30 January – 3 May Churchill’s Final Journey exhibition at National Railway Museum, York nrm.org.uk
1 February 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
– Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give– Winston Churchill
15 February Opening of Churchill exhibition at Blenheim Palace blenheimpalace.com
28 March Thameslea Association event at Knebworth House wcmt.org.uk
10 April Opening of De Gaulle/Churchill Exhibition Paris Musée de l’Armée, Paris
25 April North West Association event at Museum of Military Life, Carlisle
25 April (tbc) Scottish Association event at Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
9 & 10 May South West Association event in Plymouth
26-29 May International Churchill Conference in Oxfordshire winstonchurchill.org
27 May Fellows’ Day at Blenheim Palace blenheimpalace.com
29 May The Churchill Memorial Concerts at Blenheim Palace blenheimpalace.com
31 May BBC Radio 4 Appeal
1 June Official opening of Churchill Memorial Garden at Blenheim Palace blenheimpalace.com
11 June East Anglia Association event in Thetford
26 June House of Lords Tea 1 in London
27 June East Midlands Association event in Bentley Priory
3 October Wales Association event at National Museum, Cardiff
17 October East Pennine Association event at National Railway Museum, York
6 November House of Lords Tea 2 in London
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