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

16 Jul 2024: Our collections are a valuable resource for students at all levels. We are happy to receive school groups, individual students and teachers.

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

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

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

30 Apr 2024: As College Archivist, she collects, catalogues and preserves material about and from members of Churchill College as well as answering internal and external enquiries.

24 Jun 2024: about our history and impact.

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

24 Jun 2024: Listening in: An exhibition about everyday experiences of science and technology, created for History Day 2022. ... Marples Must Go!”: the controversial life and career of Ernest Marples: Alfred Ernest Marples (1907-78) is the figure behind our latest

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

30 Jan 2024: The Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy is a non-partisan, charitable organization that honours the life of Sir Winston Churchill by facilitating education, discussion and debate about

12 Jun 2024: Some of these stories revolve around how certain collections transformed how a researcher thought about a topic, event, or person. ... In the meantime, watch some of our latest stories below – and if there’s a story you’d like to tell about one of

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

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

3 May 2024: About the Collection. The Churchill Papers consist of the original documents sent, received or composed by Sir Winston Churchill during the course of his long and active life. ... You may also wish to consider purchasing an individual subscription. You

5 Mar 2024: Recent work on the Hynd collection, which involved the repackaging of the material and the updating of the catalogue, has brought a few unexpected aspects about his life and work to

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. ... He is also very optimistic about general result of war, in which I agree.”.

5 Mar 2024: Abrams, who spoke to the Gas Council about the importance of housewives in 1957 (see ABMS 6/2/2) – to promote gas to younger and prospective homeowners as a clean, comfortable,

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

5 Mar 2024: A cartoon by Roskill’s close naval contemporary, Captain Jack Broome, illustrates Roskill’s perennial dilemma in trying to balance his conflicting loyalties: an obligation to write the truth about the

5 Mar 2024: 2nd Subaltern Churchill watches a demonstration of the latest methods of infantry training, Dec 1942. ... This is where you will find some of the most invaluable parts of the archive, as Mary collected everything she could find about the family as part

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

29 Feb 2024: scene (and wrote about it in highly entertaining detail in her letters and diaries) from her heyday in “The Coterie” before the First World War, until well beyond the death of ... Then about 30 years later another 100 boxes of mixed Duff and Diana

5 Mar 2024: However, before we turn the pages of Horsbrugh’s wartime scrapbook, it’s important to know a bit about the scrapbook form in and of itself. ... Yet directly underneath this is a shorter article from the Evening News in May 1918.

5 Mar 2024: Rabel writes about her decision to preserve the diaries and publish them in draft introductions to ‘My Life: Failures and Follies’ (RABL 2/34). ... The general public does not know much about it.”. Cheveley, 21 Aug 1958.

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: These interviews present a unique opportunity to hear from MPs outside of the House of Commons as they discuss about issues that concern themselves personally or those that affect their constituents ... The recording hears from two women about the march

5 Mar 2024: I haven’t really hardly ever told anyone about those things that happened to me at that age” (Michael Young discussing his childhood, YUNG 10/6, Track 2, 0:50). ... There are very few recordings of Michael Young and scant detail about his early life

22 Feb 2024: There are about 18 boxes of these in MCHL 6/2, covering the whole of both Churchill’s and Clementine’s lives, as well as a similar number of boxes of

29 Feb 2024: A set of Hamilton’s surviving diaries dating from 1938-1945, which had never been made publicly accessible, contained valuable contextual information about Lord Salter and his partner Ethel Bullard. ... A file of correspondence between Aster and Mary

29 Feb 2024: For more information about the history of Bourn Hall Clinic see the clinic’s blog:. ... In March 2021 the Archives Centre hosted an online symposium about the papers of Robert Edwards.

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: about ‘Irish negotiations’ and a copy of ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland’.

21 Jun 2024: Diaries are much more than just a narration about what happened, when, and how. ... If we look closely at the material qualities of the diaries, we can make deductions about its use.

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: This is also a good place to find details about the management of Chartwell, the Churchill family home. ... We also have Martin’s letters home from his travels, and he later kept up a useful correspondence with historians about his memories of working

22 Feb 2024: Probably the key part of his archive are those sections relating to India, including questions about India which arose when Grigg was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War (1939-42).

22 Feb 2024: What calm lives they had, those people! No worries about the French Revolution, or the crashing struggle of the Napoleonic Wars. ... Martial references seem to have sprung forth when writing the gruff Churchill about romantic matters, because a note from

9 Apr 2024: To mark International Women’s Day, we’re thrilled to share our latest research guide on women’s suffrage. ... 1890s-1940s. The newspaper editor William T. Stead frequently wrote about, and supported the work of suffrage campaigners.

22 Feb 2024: Despite the prescience of his warnings about Germany, he was moved to the basically empty post of Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary in 1938, resigning in 1941. ... Many of his letters relate to his fears about first fascism then communism,

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: Please get in touch with the team if you have any questions about the collections the Archives Centre holds relating to women’s history, or if you would like to make

22 Feb 2024: Highlights of this collection include correspondence and papers about the Institute of Community Studies, as well as press cuttings of reviews of Family and Kinship (WLMT 4/1 and 4/2). ... For more information about the architecture competition, along

22 Feb 2024: Also includes copies of Powell’s speeches, and a standard letter sent by Quintin Hogg to members of the public who contacted him about immigration. ... HLSM 2/41/137: Correspondence with James Callaghan about polygamous marriages, visa extensions and

22 Feb 2024: play written by Gilchrist in 1992 to educate a British audience about the Troubles and ‘An Imaginary Conversation at No. ... speech Hailsham gave about Northern Ireland at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton on 8th October 1969.

22 Feb 2024: Roskill, Adeline and Robin were frequently in correspondence about the 3-part biography. ... Source: Spears Papers, SPRS 10/1/16, Churchill Archives Centre. Find out more about:.