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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.

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

22 Feb 2024: In 1972, following news of talks between members of the government and the Provisional IRA, Chichester-Clark considered resigning, only to be dissuaded by Whitelaw.

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

22 Feb 2022: An exhibition, on display 2018-2019, to mark the centenary of the 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act.

11 Feb 2022: Key words, terms, and names included in The Churchill Era educational resource may be checked in this glossary.

14 Feb 2022: Challenge the view of Churchill in the 1930s as a “Great Man”, and consider the political figures Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.

11 Feb 2022: Compare three documents from 1908-1909 relating to the naval race between Germany and Britain, and answer questions about the documents.

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.

14 Feb 2022: The Oxford by-election gathered international interest. The news magazine Picture Post commented:. ... The centre of Oxford is dominated by its ancient university, where dons (university teachers) and students would read the latest newspaper reports and

14 Feb 2022: What was Churchill's reputation in the 1930s? General opinion of Churchill was much less favourable than it was of Baldwin or Chamberlain.

14 Feb 2022: In 1934 the League of Nations Union Ilford organised a local referendum on the League, Locarno treaties, disarmament and the arms trade.

28 Oct 2022: This exercise focuses on a report to London by Hugh Watson, Naval Attaché (naval expert) at the British Embassy in Berlin, 12 March 1913.

19 Jul 2022: Recordings of talks from the Keeping and Making Diaries conference, held over 3 days at Churchill College in March-April 2022.

21 Dec 2022: Speaking on the news, Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre said:. ... As the reaction to this news shows, there is huge research interest in her as a political figure and in the events of her life and premiership, and the material

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

8 Feb 2022: Our collections include records of women’s political work as politicians, suffrage campaigners, civil servants and ‘incorporated wives’.

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.

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

22 Feb 2024: Examples of the life writing materials held at the Archives Centre, from autobiographies, diaries, and letters to more unusual sources.

14 Feb 2022: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Churchill’s impact. Churchill’s impact. As a backbench MP – i.e. a Member of Parliament but not in the Cabinet and holding no official position – Churchill had

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?

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

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

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.

11 Feb 2022: As the twentieth century dawned, for the first time Britain's naval power was challenged, by the strong new empire of Germany.

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

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.

14 Feb 2022: A full list of our archive collections which can be filtered by category, searched by keyword, or browsed alphabetically.

1 Mar 2023: KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive are now open for consultation at the Churchill Archives Centre.

11 Feb 2022: Analyse extracts from the text of Churchill's speech on resigning from the Government, House of Commons, 15 November 1915.

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.

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

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

2 Feb 2022: How serious was the German naval threat to Great Britain before 1914? Look at the data given in the tables to answer this question.

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

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

14 Feb 2022: Appeasement and public opinion. This part of unit two looks at how historians can work out what people in Britain thought of appeasement.

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.

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