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3 Nov 2023: Research guide by Dr Vicki Thoms on dance at Churchill Archives Centre, particularly in the papers of Sir Alexander Cadogan and Duff Cooper.

8 Feb 2024: Recorded videos of talks from Churchill Archives Centre's 50th anniversary conference, September 2023, Celebrating Preservation and Access

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

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

18 Jul 2023: The archives of Admiral Sir John de Robeck were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre by his great nephew, the 7th Baron de Robeck, in July 1965. By the terms of the Admiral’s will they had been kept in the family’s possession, first in London

18 Jul 2023: A.V.Hill was born in Bristol in September 1886 and educated at Blundell’s School and Cambridge University. During World War One he was appointed Captain in charge of the Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section of the Ministry of Munitions Inventions

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.

11 Feb 2022: Haig and his critics: compare a memo by Lord French to the War Cabinet in 1917 and Maurice Hankey’s diary entries from 1917-1918.