Churchill became Member of Parliament for Oldham aged just 26 years. Westminster would become the scene of many of his greatest triumphs – and failures – in a Parliamentary career spanning some 60 years.

During Second World War, Churchill ran Britain’s campaign from an underground bunker beneath London’s Whitehall, where he literally lived, worked, ate and slept.

(Churchill Archives Centre, Baroness Spencer-Churchill Papers, CSCT 5/2)