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28 Jun 2024: The Annual Reports for the Churchill Archives Centre for the last 5 years.

18 Jun 2024: Due to the Archives Centre's continuing cataloguing programme, we are making more material available to researchers all the time. 

16 May 2024: A practical guide to visiting and using the Archives Centre, including opening hours, services, access guidelines and rules.

24 Jun 2024: Hub for the information and events relating to the 50th anniversary of Churchill Archives Centre, 2023.

30 Apr 2024: How to get in touch with Churchill Archives Centre, and more information about our staff.

10 Jan 2024: A guide to our remote services, including research and publication copies of our collections, and remote research.

24 Jun 2024: Marples Must Go!”: the controversial life and career of Ernest Marples: Alfred Ernest Marples (1907-78) is the figure behind our latest collection to be catalogued and opened to researchers.

30 Jan 2024: Links to some useful educational resources for schools and history students, on a wide range of subjects including Winston Churchill.

18 Jun 2024: This page lists research guides written by Archives staff on various subject areas and collections held at Churchill Archives Centre.

12 Jun 2024: In the meantime, watch some of our latest stories below – and if there’s a story you’d like to tell about one of our collections, then get in touch.

30 Jan 2024: Discover our collections which comprise a wide-range of documents by more than 570 key political, military and scientific figures.

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

3 May 2024: The Churchill papers are a collection of Winston Churchill's writings throughout his lifetime, comprising more than a million documents.

5 Mar 2024: Guide to the papers of John Burns Hynd, and how new additions to the collection were packaged by our conservators

29 Feb 2024: An introduction to Julian Amery, politician, and his archive. Written on completion of cataloguing the c.700 box collection.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

3 May 2024: Guide to the main Churchill and Churchill family-related collections held at Churchill Archives Centre

22 Feb 2024: Other than Winston Churchill’s own archive, we have nearly 40 collections which relate in one way or another to the Empire and Commonwealth.

22 Feb 2024: Guide by Janine Barchas, University of Texas at Austin, on Winston Churchill's set of Jane Austen's books from his personal library

9 Apr 2024: To mark International Women’s Day, we’re thrilled to share our latest research guide on women’s suffrage.

22 Feb 2024: A list of the top 10 key Foreign Office ministers and diplomats whose papers are held at the Archives Centre

22 Feb 2024: Women’s role in international affairs can often be ‘hidden’ but records of women’s own international relations survive in our archives.

22 Feb 2024: The papers of female non-fiction writers, actresses, playwrights, and photographers can be found at the Archives Centre.

22 Feb 2024: A list of the top 10 collections featuring architecture and town planning held at the Archives Centre, including Churchill College itself

22 Feb 2024: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Race and migration. Race and migration. The social scientist Mark Abrams was born Mark Abramowitz in 1906, to Jewish parents who had emigrated to London from the Baltic

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.

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