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26 Jan 2022: Churchill Archives Centre > News. News. Showing 1 to 12 of 89.

23 Aug 2022: Details of the Archives Centre's upcoming public programme of events, and how to organise group visits

26 Jan 2022: The Centre exists to preserve our unique collections and make the materials available to a wide range of audiences.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill Archives Centre is a charitable organisation which relies on the support and generosity of trusts and individuals.

4 Feb 2022: Access our unique holdings, and gain an insight into some of the great events that shaped the modern world: WWI to the build up to WWII.

28 Jan 2022: Margaret Thatcher’s archive, containing over 1 million documents, captures one of the most significant eras in 20th century politics.

16 Feb 2022: For the latest announcements and press releases from the Churchill Archives Centre visit our news pages.

22 Feb 2022: A symposium, held in Jan 2019, celebrating Lise Meitner, the pioneering female scientist who helped to discover nuclear fission.

2 Mar 2022: The Archives Centre welcomes the opportunity to share its collections with a wider audience through loans to temporary exhibitions.

11 Feb 2022: These exercises are specially designed to enable teachers and students to make use of archive material in the classroom.

14 Feb 2022: It all seems rather topical, with radio signals from space once again appearing in the news.

9 Feb 2022: We welcome submissions from researchers who have found something in our collections which you think our blog readers should know about.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill Archive Centre actively conserves and preserves the documents, papers and artefacts that compose a rich, historic collection.

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2 Feb 2022: Information about the ownership of the Thatcher Papers, releases of documents to the public, and contact details for more information.

22 Apr 2022: Churchill Archives Centre exists to preserve and make available the raw material of our recent past. We are open to everyone.

11 Feb 2022: The Churchill Era, by Churchill Archives Centre, is designed to enable teachers and students to make use of archive material in the classroom.

10 Feb 2022: Guide to the papers of the First World War propaganda Chief and first Foreign Office historian Sir James Headlam-Morley.

27 Jan 2022: A list of recent national and international exhibitions to which Churchill Archives Centre loaned items from our collections for display.

11 Feb 2022: To what extent was Churchill to blame for the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, also known as Gallipoli, during the First World War?

2 Feb 2022: View a chronological summary of Sir Winston Churchill's personal, military, parliamentary and ministerial life.

11 Feb 2022: This enquiry considers the issue of whether it is right to view Churchill as a lone voice of reason in his opposition to appeasement.

29 Mar 2022: Collecting Policy for the archive of Churchill College itself, expanding on the main Churchill Archives Centre collecting policy.

26 Jan 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to the Dardanelles campaign, then return to this page for our question section.

8 Mar 2022: This policy states and communicates the principles that guide collection development and acquisition activities.

26 Jan 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to the Dardanelles campaign, then return to this page for our question section.

21 Dec 2022: The aim of this policy is to state and communicate the principles that guide the preservation activities of the Archives Centre.

11 Feb 2022: Take a look at Churchill's own judgement on Haig's handling of the 1918 crisis. What judgement do you reach on Haig's generalship?

25 Jan 2022: Churchill's reply to Richard Acland, a leading Liberal politician, who had asked about military strength compared to Germany, 9 October 1938.

21 Dec 2022: In 2018 we curated a display that illustrated Margaret MacMillan’s discussion of how the First World War is reflected on today.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Arthur Pillans Laurie, October 1938, about the Munich crisis, Czechoslovakia and appeasement

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Sir Denys Page, Professor of Greek, 31 Oct 1938, who saw the result of the Oxford by-election announced in Munich.

22 Feb 2022: A display from a lecture by Cherish Watton, based on her MPhil research about women’s scrapbooks on political and diplomatic activity.

11 Feb 2022: On 9 Feb 1912 Churchill, newly appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty, made a public speech in Glasgow about the naval race.

25 Jan 2022: Lord Rothermere wrote to Churchill on 15 Oct 1938 warning him to mute his criticism of Chamberlain or face the electoral consequences.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill takes his message to the country in a statement given on the telephone to the Press Association, 13 April 1938

14 Feb 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to Churchill, rearmament and appeasement, then return to this page to complete the tasks.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill expresses his frustration with the Air Defence Research Committee in a letter to Kingsley Wood (Sec of State for Air), 9 June 1938

25 Jan 2022: In Oct 1937 Churchill sent his old friend and colleague Sir Maurice Hankey information about German rearmament that he had illicitly obtained.

14 Feb 2022: How fairly was Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig judged by contemporaries? Take a look through key First World War events.

26 Jan 2022: Government and Civil Service reaction to Churchill's interventions on rearmament. Maurice Hankey discusses the "Winston problem", March 1937.

26 Jan 2022: Lindemann clashes with the Air Defence Research Committee. Letter from Professor Sir Henry Tizard to Professor Lindemann, 18 June 1936.

14 Feb 2022: A D Lindsay's election address, October 1938, for the Oxford City by-election. Focusing on appeasement, peace, and the League of Nations.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Elizabeth Whitley, Oct 1938, responding to his address for the Oxford City by-election and support for Chamberlain

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25 Jan 2022: Churchill warns of German rearmament. Extracts from text of Churchill's speech in the House of Commons, 19 March 1935.

27 Jan 2022: In Oct 1938, shortly after the Munich crisis, Churchill received this letter from a leading Liberal politician asking about military strength.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill looks back at the death in 1936 of Ralph Wigram, one of Churchill's most important sources of information from within Whitehall.

28 Jan 2022: Some on the left distrust Churchill's motives for his stand against appeasement, G F Hudson writes to Patrick Gordon-Walker.

11 Feb 2022: Exercise in interpreting the data on the outcome of the naval race between Britain and Germany leading up to the First World War.