Churchill’s Bomb launched at the Science Museum, London

A hundred guests joined Graham at the Science Museum on Thursday 3 October to celebrate the launch of Churchill’s Bomb.

A selection of photos taken during the evening (apologies to Lisa Jardine, Michael Johnson, Elizabeth Martin, Simon Singh and others who were not captured by the lens):

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Playwright and author Michael Frayn (l) with Brian Cathcart, journalism professor and founder of Hacked Off

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Graham (l) with Lady Williams (Winston Churchill’s secretary 1951-55) (centre) and Piers Brendon, author

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Socialites Stephanie Gordon and Ben Sumner

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Frank James of the Royal Institution (l), Graham, and Birmingham University historian of science Sabine Lee (r)

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Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre (l) and Christopher Cockcroft, son of Sir John Cockcroft

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Will Rogers-Tizard, great-grandson of Sir Henry Tizard

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James Stirling, Provost of Imperial College, London (left), Kate Davis (centre) and Rachel Boon, Science Museum curator (r)

Sarah Bird, Science Museum curator (l), Howard Covington, Trustee of the Science Museum (centre) and Veronika Covington (r)

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Faber’s Neil Belton at the lectern. Front row of audience (l to r) writer Piers Brendon, Science Museum technical wizard Dave Patten, Science Museum exhibitions supremo Emily Scott-Dearing, Veronika Covington, physicist and science communicator Melanie Windridge, UCL climate-change expert Chris Rapley, Science Museum Trustee Howard Covington and Nicola Fagg.

Jamie Balfour, CEO of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (l), Graham Smith, Executive (centre) and Churchill expert Paul Courtenay

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Faber’s Neil Belton (l) with Graham