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“The Inimitable Winston Churchill"
Friday, February 12, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
Category: Joel Lane Museum House
Event:  Joel Lane Museum House presents a talk on “The Inimitable Winston Churchill"
by Elliot Engel
Time:  Friday, February 12, 2016, 7:00 pm
Location:  Raleigh Moravian Church, 1816 Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27612
Admission:  $27.00 per person, general admission; Advanced purchase is strongly
suggested.
Contact Information: tel: (919) 833-3431; email: [email protected]
Elliot Engel will speak on “The Inimitable Winston Churchill” on Friday, February 12,
2016, at 7 pm at Raleigh Moravian Church, 1816 Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27612.
General admission tickets will be $27.00 per person. Advanced purchase is strongly
recommended. To purchase tickets, call 919-833-3431 with your MasterCard or Visa, or
mail a check payable to Joel Lane Museum House to P O Box 10884, Raleigh NC
27605 or visit Eventbrite.com. Your tickets will be held at will call. Tickets are non-
refundable unless we must cancel the event.
Dr Engel has dug deeply into numerous biographies to discover delightful yet virtually
unknown details of Churchill's brilliant career. Using anecdotes, analysis, and LARGE
doses of humor, Professor Engel will bring to life this twentieth-century giant.
Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Dr. Engel now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina,
where he has taught at the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University,
and Duke University. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at
UCLA. While at UCLA he won that university’s Outstanding Teacher Award.
Dr. Engel has written ten books published in England, Japan, and the United States. His
mini-lecture series on Charles Dickens ran on PBS television stations around the
country. His articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and national magazines
including Newsweek. He has lectured throughout the United States and on all the
continents including Antarctica. Four plays which he has written have been produced
during the last ten years.
For his scholarship and teaching, Dr. Engel has received North Carolina’s Adult
Education Award, North Carolina State’s Alumni Professorship, and the Victorian
Society’s Award of Merit. Most recently, for his thirty years of academic work and
service in promoting Charles Dickens, he was nominated and inducted into the Royal
Society of Arts in England.
Since 1980, Dr. Engel has been President of the Dickens Fellowship of North Carolina,
the largest branch of this worldwide network of clubs. The sales of Dr. Engel’s books,
CDs, and DVDs have raised funds for The Great Ormond Street Children’s
Hospital which Dickens helped found in London in 1852.
Professor Engel continues to teach outside the classroom and give literary and
historical programs throughout the world. He also presents assemblies at elementary,
middle, and high schools, and his educational CDs are used in classrooms around the
country. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, walking, and vacationing in exotic
locations where he is not asked to deliver even one lecture.

Contact: [email protected]