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2 Jan 2024: Latest news. Email us:. archives@chu.cam.ac.uk.

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

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. 

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

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

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

31 Jul 2023: Churchill Archives Centre relies on the support and generosity of trusts and individuals, find out about ways to get involved.

3 Oct 2023: Links to our digitised collections, sound archive, online exhibitions, podcasts, image gallery, films of our past events and other videos.

26 Jul 2023: Timeline for Churchill Archives Centre, from 1961-2019

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

9 Jun 2023: Our collections are a valuable resource for students at all levels. We are happy to receive school groups, individual students and teachers.

Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. Churchill Archives Centre > Future events. Future events. Showing 1 to 12 of 17. 1Email us:. archives@chu.cam.ac.uk. Call us:. (01223) 336 087. Follow us:Follow us:. This website uses

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

24 Aug 2023: The answers to frequently asked questions about visiting the Archives Centre, searching our collections and obtaining copies.

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

7 Mar 2023: Find out about the policies in place at Churchill Archives Centre, including our collections and preservations policies.

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.

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.

18 Jul 2023: 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 Commission.

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

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.

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

31 Jul 2023: The Archives Centre offers volunteer placements for those aged 18+ and interested in a career in archives, records management or conservation.

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

12 Oct 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Recent events: video. Recent events: video. A selection of recent events which were recorded and are now available online. All these videos and more are available on

18 Jul 2023: The opening was performed by the United States Ambassador, Walter Annenberg, on 26 July 1973 in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh and Lady Spencer-Churchill. As Michael Hoskin recalls, “It was a memorable day, not least because Mr Annenber

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

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

11 Dec 2023: A short black and white film used to promote the opening of Churchill Archives Centre in July 1973.

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3 May 2023: Our work would not be possible without the support the Archives Centre receives from philanthropic trusts and individuals.

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Microfilming of the Churchill papers begins. 2000. Microfilming of the Churchill papers begins. Share your memories of this year. Add your own stories and photo. Your

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

6 Mar 2023: An exhibition in the foyer of the Wolfson Hall about the story of the foundation of Churchill College

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

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

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

18 Jul 2023: The Churchill Archive supports teaching, study and research, providing an invaluable resource for a wide range of courses. It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965. Documents range from Churchill’s

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

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

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

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.

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

7 Nov 2023: Policy for the provision of services to university, school and other educational groups, and to establish requirements and standards.

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?

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.