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29 Feb 2024: An article about Ralph Alger Bagnold, early pioneer of desert exploration by motor car and founder of the Long Range Desert Group.

7 Nov 2023: Film crews must be off site by 5.00pm at the latest.

17 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Alan Kucia, archivist (1991-2000). 1991. Appointment of Alan Kucia, archivist (1991-2000). Share your memories of this year. Add your own stories and photo.

29 Feb 2024: A catalogue of the papers of Sarah Churchill, the third child of Winston and Sarah Churchill, nicknamed 'Mule' for her stubborn nature.

2 Nov 2023: Past By-Fellowship reports can be found by searching this site for ‘By-Fellowship report’, where they will appear in our news archives.

18 Jul 2023: (Georgina Elizabeth) Angela Raspin (1938-2013) joined the College as archivist in 1973. She was born in Keighley, brought up in Boston Spa in West Yorkshire, and studied modern history at Durham University.

29 Feb 2024: Sir William Bull MP (1863-1931) kept an unusual diary covering virtually every day of his life from age 13 to a few weeks before his death.

27 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Marion Stewart, archivist (1978-1987). 1978. Appointment of Marion Stewart, archivist (1978-1987). Share your memories of this year. Add your own stories

7 Nov 2023: Churchill Archives Centre is keen to promote and facilitate access to information and welcomes enquiries about the Centre and its collections.

29 Feb 2024: Hankey diary entries for April 1915, HNKY 1/1. April 18:. News of loss of submarine in Dardanelles.

18 Jul 2023: Piers Brendon succeeded Bill Barnett as Keeper from 1995-2001 and was involved in concluding the long negotiations for the Churchill Papers. In April 1995, grants from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and the John Paul Getty Foundation enabled

7 Nov 2023: The Centre has its own social media accounts and regularly promotes “news posts”, research guides and visual research stories on its collection and other developments.

5 Mar 2024: Guide to the papers of Sir Kenneth Hutchison, one of the figures credited with changing the fortunes of the British gas industry.

5 Mar 2024: An introduction to the papers of the Eurosceptic Labour MP Nigel Spearing

27 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Patricia Bradford, archivist (1974-1978). 1974. Appointment of Patricia Bradford, archivist (1974-1978). Share your memories of this year. Add your own

7 Nov 2023: The aim of this policy is to produce an integrated policy for the governance and management of the Churchill Archives Centre.

5 Mar 2024: Guide to the papers of Stephen Roskill, who played a key role in the early development of the Archives Centre, bringing many important collections of military and naval papers to Cambridge.

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Elizabeth Bennett, archivist (1987-1990). 1987. Appointment of Elizabeth Bennett, archivist (1987-1990). Share your memories of this year. Add your own

3 Oct 2023: Dr Brendon and the Archives Centre were suddenly front page news:. ... It has been constructed to an extremely high specification, designed to meet the relevant British Standard and to accord with the latest guidelines from the Historical Manuscripts

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Strongroom and archivist office added to the library. Strongroom and archivist office added to the library. Share your memories of this year. Add your own stories and

5 Mar 2024: 2nd Subaltern Churchill watches a demonstration of the latest methods of infantry training, Dec 1942.

29 Feb 2024: An introduction to the papers of Mark Abrams, pioneer of market research and opinion polling.

18 Jul 2023: You can read an article by Edwin Welch, written for the archives journal Archivaria, in which he reflects on the new Archives Centre building.

18 Jul 2023: In June 2019, the archive of Professor Sir Robert Edwards (IVF pioneer) was opened for research following an 18 month project to catalogue and conserve the papers. The project was generously funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Edwards papers were

29 Feb 2024: Some time ago we had a very exciting addition to the papers of Lady Diana Cooper, the beautiful (and rather eccentric) socialite, writer, actress and political hostess.

5 Mar 2024: Yet directly underneath this is a shorter article from the Evening News in May 1918.

18 Jul 2023: Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, OBE, is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He is a qualified archivist and has worked at the Centre since September 1995, succeeding Dr Piers

5 Mar 2024: Research guide about the diaries of Gabriele Rabel, as preparation for the conference ‘Keeping and Making Diaries’, March 2022

18 Jul 2023: Vic Brown, known as the Conservationist at the time, took up his position in a large second floor room which is still today the Conservation studio. Vic’s career illustrates the route of many people (almost exclusively men) at that time into the

29 Feb 2024: An introduction to the papers of Lord Duncan-Sandys and his work with the Civic Trust, combating 'national eyesores'

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Margaret Tong, first archives assistant (1974 – 1978). Appointment of Margaret Tong, first archives assistant (1974 – 1978). Share your memories of this

5 Mar 2024: Guide to a series of audio podcasts made to celebrate the centenary of women getting the vote.

18 Jul 2023: Accredited Archive Services ensure the long-term collection, preservation and accessibility of our archive heritage. Accreditation is the UK quality standard and achieving accredited status demonstrates that Churchill Archives Centre has met clearly

5 Mar 2024: At one point in the recordings, Phyll indicates that they had each tried to recall where they were when they heard the news of the declaration of war in 1939 (YUNG

18 Jul 2023: Michael Hoskin came to the College in 1969 on his appointment as Librarian (with responsibility for the Archives). Prior to coming to Churchill he read mathematics at London University and took a PhD in algebraic geometry at Peterhouse before

22 Feb 2024: Guide to the main photographic collections featuring Winston Churchill and his family at Churchill Archives Centre

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Work begins on College Archive by Lesley James, Archives Assistant. Work begins on College Archive by Lesley James, Archives Assistant. Share your memories of this year.

29 Feb 2024: When the science of arranging personal archives becomes a fine art.

18 Jul 2023: In April 1995, grants from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and the John Paul Getty Foundation enabled the Chartwell Papers to be bought from the Chartwell Trust and consolidated the ownership of all the Papers in a charitable trust, the Sir

29 Feb 2024: There are plenty of letters, video clips of news stories, cuttings from newspapers, drafts of articles and conference papers relating to these issues.

29 Feb 2024: He met privately with Ian Jacob on most weekday mornings, and was party to discussions surrounding the introduction of photography into news reporting, policies and procedures concerning the broadcast of religious ... Cadogan Papers, ACAD 2/8.

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Joan Bullock-Anderson, first dedicated College Archivist (1992-2003). Appointment of Joan Bullock-Anderson, first dedicated College Archivist (1992-2003).

22 Feb 2024: Research guide to our collections, listing some of those which relate to Irish history before 1921.

19 Jul 2023: In a recent episode of our podcast, our Senior Conservator, Sarah Lewery, reflects on how she has been preserving the collections for more than 20 years. Sarah talks about how she started her career in conservation, what are the challenges of today,

17 Jul 2023: The post of Keeper was formally separated from that of Librarian, and the first holder of the new office was the military and industrial historian Correlli Barnett. He took up his responsibilities on New Year’s Day 1977, little knowing that he

21 Jun 2024: Guide to using some of the diaries at Churchill Archives Centre, focusing on formats, the naming and process of diary-keeping, as well as our published and unpublished diaries.

18 Jul 2023: The daughter of a headmaster, Helen Cam graduated from Royal Holloway College, University of London, with a BA in 1902. After a period as a schoolmistress, she returned to Royal Holloway as a lecturer in History. She moved to Girton College,

22 Feb 2024: Papers of women who assisted their husbands’ and fathers’ work, or were secretaries, can shed new light on science, politics, and culture.

18 Jul 2023: Lise Meitner was born in Austria on 7 November 1878, the daughter of the Viennese lawyer, Phillip Meitner. In 1901 she entered the University of Vienna, becoming Doctor of Philosophy in 1906. In the following year Meitner left Austria and went to

18 Jul 2023: The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into two sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR).