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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.

18 Jul 2023: You can read an article by Edwin Welch, written for the archives journal Archivaria, in which he reflects on the new Archives Centre building.

18 Jul 2023: In June 2019, the archive of Professor Sir Robert Edwards (IVF pioneer) was opened for research following an 18 month project to catalogue and conserve the papers. The project was generously funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Edwards papers were

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.

18 Jul 2023: Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), FRHistS, OBE, is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He is a qualified archivist and has worked at the Centre since September 1995, succeeding Dr Piers

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.

18 Jul 2023: Vic Brown, known as the Conservationist at the time, took up his position in a large second floor room which is still today the Conservation studio. Vic’s career illustrates the route of many people (almost exclusively men) at that time into the

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

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Margaret Tong, first archives assistant (1974 – 1978). Appointment of Margaret Tong, first archives assistant (1974 – 1978). Share your memories of this

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

18 Jul 2023: Accredited Archive Services ensure the long-term collection, preservation and accessibility of our archive heritage. Accreditation is the UK quality standard and achieving accredited status demonstrates that Churchill Archives Centre has met clearly

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

18 Jul 2023: Learn more about Michael’s life in his obituary. ... Listen to Michael’s recollections about the opening of Churchill Archives Centre in 1973.

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

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Work begins on College Archive by Lesley James, Archives Assistant. Work begins on College Archive by Lesley James, Archives Assistant. Share your memories of this year.

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

18 Jul 2023: In April 1995, grants from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and the John Paul Getty Foundation enabled the Chartwell Papers to be bought from the Chartwell Trust and consolidated the ownership of all the Papers in a charitable trust, the Sir

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.

18 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Joan Bullock-Anderson, first dedicated College Archivist (1992-2003). Appointment of Joan Bullock-Anderson, first dedicated College Archivist (1992-2003).

22 Feb 2024: about ‘Irish negotiations’ and a copy of ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland’.

19 Jul 2023: Sarah talks about how she started her career in conservation, what are the challenges of today, how she handled things during the Covid-period and what the best part of her ... And you can also watch Sarah talk about one of her earliest conservation

17 Jul 2023: The post of Keeper was formally separated from that of Librarian, and the first holder of the new office was the military and industrial historian Correlli Barnett. He took up his responsibilities on New Year’s Day 1977, little knowing that he

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.

18 Jul 2023: The daughter of a headmaster, Helen Cam graduated from Royal Holloway College, University of London, with a BA in 1902. After a period as a schoolmistress, she returned to Royal Holloway as a lecturer in History. She moved to Girton College,

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.

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: The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into two sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR).

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

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

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).

18 Jul 2023: Read more about Florence Horsbrugh’s life in this blog for International Women’s Day.

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

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

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.

24 Jul 2023: Find out more about Stephen Roskill in a blog written by former Archives Assistant, Dr Heidi Egginton.

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,

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

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.

18 Jul 2023: A.V.Hill was born in Bristol in September 1886 and educated at Blundell’s School and Cambridge University. During World War One he was appointed Captain in charge of the Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section of the Ministry of Munitions Inventions

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

3 Nov 2023: It is as if something about it is important but difficult to talk about. ... In sum, The Miracle augurs an exciting new lens for research about the Churchill era.

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:.