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

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. 

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

24 Jun 2024: about our history and impact.

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

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

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

24 Aug 2023: You may also wish to consider purchasing an individual subscription. You can find out about prices and purchasing a subscription from the Bloomsbury sales team.. ... s funeral at WCHL 5, but that is about it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

7 Nov 2023: A summary of the strategy of Churchill Archives Centre including our core objectives and strategic priorities.

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: 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

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

7 Nov 2023: The Centre also has a backlog of uncatalogued collections. This policy explains our approach to creating finding aids providing information about our collections. ... About 80% of our typewritten catalogues have been fully converted in this way.

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

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

7 Nov 2023: This policy aims to establish consistent principles for the management of all material held in digital formats at Churchill Archives Centre.

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

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

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: Film crews must be off site by 5.00pm at the latest.

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 article about Ralph Alger Bagnold, early pioneer of desert exploration by motor car and founder of the Long Range Desert Group.

2 Nov 2023: Past By-Fellowship reports can be found by searching this site for ‘By-Fellowship report’, where they will appear in our news archives. ... Speaking on the new Fund, Jennie Churchill commented:. “I am deeply honoured to have my name associated with

27 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Marion Stewart, archivist (1978-1987). 1978. Appointment of Marion Stewart, archivist (1978-1987). Share your memories of this year. Add your own stories

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.

7 Nov 2023: It is possible that sensitive personal information about potentially living individuals is not always closed in our collections. ... would encourage you to seek further details about information which is closed for the reasons outlined above.

18 Jul 2023: (Georgina Elizabeth) Angela Raspin (1938-2013) joined the College as archivist in 1973. She was born in Keighley, brought up in Boston Spa in West Yorkshire, and studied modern history at Durham University.

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.

7 Nov 2023: We regularly work with external partners to make sure that information about the Centre and its holdings is disseminated through collaborative websites, exhibitions and conferences (see section 6 for further details). ... The Centre has its own social

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.”.

18 Jul 2023: Piers Brendon succeeded Bill Barnett as Keeper from 1995-2001 and was involved in concluding the long negotiations for the Churchill Papers. In April 1995, grants from the National Heritage Lottery Fund and the John Paul Getty Foundation enabled

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,

27 Jul 2023: Quick Links. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Search our website. You are here:. Appointment of Patricia Bradford, archivist (1974-1978). 1974. Appointment of Patricia Bradford, archivist (1974-1978). Share your memories of this year. Add your own

7 Nov 2023: and Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust (as specified below), though they will routinely be consulted about the allocation of their funds, and where funds have been accepted for a specific purpose the

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

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

3 Oct 2023: After about an hour there was an announcement, “Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States”. ... On-line information about collections also fed into the digitisation of the archives themselves.

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