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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.

14 Feb 2022: We know he was proved right about German war preparations, and we know that he would shortly go on to become, as even the usually critical historian AJP Taylor called him,

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

7 Mar 2023: The reasons for these closures generally fall into four categories:. Personal data (or personal information) is defined as: data or other information about a living person, who may be identified from ... Fellowship Electors Committee). It is possible

11 Feb 2022: Note from Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) to Admiral Fisher (First Sea Lord), 8 April 1915.

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

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

Data on the building of British and German battleships and battlecruisers in the years leading up to the First World War

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

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.

11 Feb 2022: That is all I have to say about the Dardanelles.”. NB: sections in square brackets are phrases that appear in Churchill’s draft notes but not in the final speech as

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).

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

14 Feb 2022: What importance should a historian give to public opinion in reaching a judgement about the policy of appeasement as a whole?

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

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

11 Feb 2022: Letter from Churchill to Bonar Law (leader of the Conservative Party), 21 May 1915, justifying his role as First Lord of the Admiralty.

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

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

11 Feb 2022: Memorandum for Cabinet by Winston Churchill defending his Dardanelles policy, 15 August 1915. From the Churchill Papers.

18 Apr 2023: Out of the 88 boxes which make up the archive, about a third are correspondence, much of it between Hersch, his wife Rachel and their son Elihu (himself a distinguished international ... For more information about the papers of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht,

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,

14 Feb 2022: Extract from the Daily Mail, 29 Oct 1938, “Oxford crystallises the true sentiments of the British people” about the Oxford City by-election.

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

14 Feb 2022: Reply from Quintin Hogg to Elizabeth Whitley, Oct 1938, responding to her letter about his election address and support for Chamberlain.

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.

11 Feb 2022: Letter from Admiral Fisher (First Sea Lord) to Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), 5 April 1915, relating to the Dardanelles campaign.

11 Feb 2022: Feel very anxious about the attack on the Dardanelles. The plan in my opinion is a most hazardous one. ... April 19. Found Winston Churchill extraordinarily optimistic about Dardanelles operation. I think he counts too much on covering fire of ships.

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

14 Feb 2022: It made headline news at the time: Churchill called the vote “abject, squalid, shameless” and “nauseating”, and it is even said to have misled Hitler into thinking the British had lost

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

14 Feb 2022: Quintin Hogg's election address, October 1938 (with his own crossings-out) for the Oxford City by-election.

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.

14 Feb 2022: Letter to Quintin Hogg from Jimmy Langle, October 1938, congratulating Hogg on winning the Oxford City by-election

Guide to the archive of the Labour politician and activist Fenner Brockway, now fully catalogued at Churchill Archives Centre

14 Feb 2022: Extract from the Daily Mirror, 27 Oct 1938, “Will Oxford dare to annoy Hitler” about the Oxford City by-election.

11 Feb 2022: the Royal Navy), made a public speech in Glasgow about the naval race. ... What does this speech tell us about:. Churchill as a politician?

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.

11 Feb 2022: Information sent to Rear-Admiral John de Robeck (formerly Naval Commander at the Dardanelles) by the Naval Intelligence Division, 1917.

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

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

14 Feb 2022: understanding with Germany about the numerous questions which at present make for hostility between us and the one European power which could do us infinite harm.

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).

14 Feb 2022: Churchill's reply to Hankey, 21 Oct 1937, after Churchill had sent Hankey information about German rearmament which he had obtained illicitly.

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.