James W. Muller is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. With his wife Judith, Professor Muller founded The Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society of Alaska in 1990, with the Lady Soames DBE as founding patron, and chaired the International Churchill Conference in Anchorage in 2000. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. His two-volume edition of Winston S. Churchill’s early book The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, published by St. Augustine’s Press, won the 2021 Churchill Literary Award.
His editions of Churchill’s interwar books Great Contemporaries and Thoughts and Adventures are available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series (or electronically as Rosetta Books) and, most recently, his new edition of Churchill’s memoir My Early Life: A Roving Commission has been published by St. Augustine’s Press. Professor Muller will speak to us about the education of Winston Churchill, both the education he received and the education he offers us in his books, focusing particularly on his memoir My Early Life, originally published in 1930, and his postwar short story about his conversation with his father’s ghost, “The Dream.”
Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
Time: Reception and Cash Bar starts at 5:45 pm, Dinner in Metropolitan Room at 7:00 pm
Location: The Terminal City Club, 837 West Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.
Cost: $185 each for a Member of the Society, spouse, partner or immediate family $205 each for a Non-member
RSVP: Register by May 27, 2026 to churchillsocietybc@gmail.com
Payment by etransfer to churchillsocietybc@gmail.com
Please note the dress code is black tie, mess kit or business attire.