Churchillian Networks editing history? A case study of a warts-and-all Churchill biography

Unpublished correspondence discovered in the Macmillan (London) archive is deployed to illuminate the process by which the text of John Pearson's 1991 hardback warts-and-all history of Winston and the Churchill dynasty came to be published in paperback (1993) with severe deletions to witness quotations regarding Churchill family life and the Churchill marriage during the interwar years. Examination of this material in the context of relevant biographical and other sources results in a carefully qualified conclusion that the deletions and other revisions were likely to have been the result of behind-the-scenes activity by a Churchillian faction bearing some resemblance to the type of Churchillian network singled out by Dockter and Toye in a seminal article.