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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

25 Jan 2022: Churchill's reply to Richard Acland, a leading Liberal politician, who had asked about military strength compared to Germany, 9 October 1938.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Arthur Pillans Laurie, October 1938, about the Munich crisis, Czechoslovakia and appeasement

21 Dec 2022: In 2018 we curated a display that illustrated Margaret MacMillan’s discussion of how the First World War is reflected on today.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Sir Denys Page, Professor of Greek, 31 Oct 1938, who saw the result of the Oxford by-election announced in Munich.

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: Winston Churchill’s archive was added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the Memory of the World Project in 1992 as an international

18 Jul 2023: Reginald McKenna was a Liberal politician and Churchill’s predecessor as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1908 – 1911. McKenna did most of the preparatory work as First Lord of the Admiralty for the naval estimates presented by Churchill in

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.

18 Jul 2023: Florence Horsbrugh was elected MP for Dundee in 1931 and became one of the most successful Conservative women parliamentarians before Margaret Thatcher. She served in the Health and Food Ministries during the Second World War, where she coordinated

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.

25 Jan 2022: Lord Rothermere wrote to Churchill on 15 Oct 1938 warning him to mute his criticism of Chamberlain or face the electoral consequences.

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

11 Feb 2022: On 9 Feb 1912 Churchill, newly appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty, made a public speech in Glasgow about the naval race.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill takes his message to the country in a statement given on the telephone to the Press Association, 13 April 1938

14 Feb 2022: Follow the links to documents relating to Churchill, rearmament and appeasement, then return to this page to complete the tasks.

26 Jan 2022: Churchill expresses his frustration with the Air Defence Research Committee in a letter to Kingsley Wood (Sec of State for Air), 9 June 1938

24 Jul 2023: As a Senior Research Fellow and historian, Roskill worked tirelessly alongside Sir John (“Jock”) Colville and the Master, Sir John Cockcroft, to seek deposits and collections to complement the Churchill papers. His extensive network of senior

25 Jan 2022: In Oct 1937 Churchill sent his old friend and colleague Sir Maurice Hankey information about German rearmament that he had illicitly obtained.

14 Feb 2022: How fairly was Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig judged by contemporaries? Take a look through key First World War events.