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22 Apr 2022: Churchill Archives Centre > About us. About us. The Churchill Archives Centre was purpose-built in 1973 to house Sir Winston Churchill’s papers— some 3000 boxes of letters and documents ranging ... More about the Archives Centre. Email us:.

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.

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

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

22 Feb 2022: research? What lessons does her life teach us about overcoming exclusion on grounds of gender and race? ... What is it about Meitner that is inspiring art and theatre as well as science?

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

26 Jan 2022: I have no news to tell you but one request to make that is will you kindly favor me with a few lines.

14 Feb 2022: It all seems rather topical, with radio signals from space once again appearing in the news.

9 Feb 2022: We welcome submissions from researchers who have found something in our collections which you think our blog readers should know about. ... When writing about your research, please do so in a clear, succinct, accessible style.

22 Feb 2022: The display explores the different items women pasted in their scrapbooks and what they can tell us about how they wanted their own and their family members’ lives remembered. ... Her scrapbooks are some of the most personal documents that remain and

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

11 Feb 2022: Further information about the exercises in the Churchill Era is available in the Teachers area of this website.

2 Feb 2022: For further information about the Thatcher Papers, please contact:. Andrew Riley.

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

21 Dec 2022: His official papers about the Paris Peace Conference also include memorabilia, such as his pass and an invitation to the signing of the treaty.

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.

10 Feb 2022: Guide to the papers of the First World War propaganda Chief and first Foreign Office historian Sir James Headlam-Morley.

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?

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

2 Feb 2022: View a chronological summary of Sir Winston Churchill's personal, military, parliamentary and ministerial life.

11 Feb 2022: table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little”. ... How accurate is this common view of Churchill and appeasement? This unit looks at evidence from the Churchill Archives Centre

29 Mar 2022: Publications about, or involving, the College, including books, newspapers, memoirs and artworks.

26 Jan 2022: What was the argument between Churchill and Fisher about? Look at the language, tone, style and handwriting of Fisher’s letter of 5th April 1915. ... What do these suggest about Fisher’s character and his relationship with Churchill?

8 Mar 2022: Decisions about acquisition are made by the Director of the Archives Centre, in consultation with members of the management team and relevant subject specialists on the staff. ... Decisions about large new collections may be informed by a significance

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

21 Dec 2022: The aim of this policy is to state and communicate the principles that guide the preservation activities of the Archives Centre.

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?

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: List the factors that counted against acceptance of Churchill’s warnings about German rearmament.

14 Feb 2022: A D Lindsay's election address, October 1938, for the Oxford City by-election. Focusing on appeasement, peace, and the League of Nations.

14 Feb 2022: What about Abyssinia? ... Czechoslovakia. One last word about the watchword of your Party – the final insult that we are asked to swallow.

11 Feb 2022: Much of the rhetoric of the naval race was about numbers, especially about how many dreadnoughts would be built (as when the British Navy League called for “Eight, and We

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.

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

20 Jan 2022: He read widely and seriously, acquiring a great store of political knowledge: his daughter later joked that while Chancellors of the Exchequer and Treasury officials often talked to her about the ... the news of their engagement, timing it for maximum

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

25 Jan 2022: You are here:. Document B. Document B. In October 1937 Churchill sent his old friend and colleague Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, information about German rearmament

26 Jan 2022: Government and Civil Service reaction to Churchill's interventions on rearmament. Maurice Hankey discusses the "Winston problem", March 1937.

26 Jan 2022: I am writing a general statement about the policy underlying the priority attached to different items of our work.

21 Dec 2022: There is correspondence with constituents on general political topics and about Churchill’s actions on behalf of local interests. ... CHUR 6 Official, 1945–1965. Further information about the content of the papers is available in the catalogue.

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.

28 Jan 2022: vis Germany, but they don’t really care a damn about collective security, democracy or liberty, and we should soon find it out if they were running this country.

11 Feb 2022: But, he promised to give Fayolle (. French Reserves then collecting about Montdidier) all available troops. ... No longer was the aim to be “keep united at all costs”, but it is now “cover the French capital, Paris” and “never mind about the

21 Dec 2022: Sensitive information, as defined by data protection legislation, about named individuals who are (or may be) still alive is routinely closed by the Centre for specific periods. ... Please see our data protection privacy statement for further information.

2 Feb 2022: The war had now become a global one. But with the might of America on the Allied side there could be no doubt about its outcome. ... Churchill was jubilant, remarking when he heard the news of Pearl Harbor: “So we have won after all!”.

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.