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

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 Feb 2024: A catalogue of the papers of Sarah Churchill, the third child of Winston and Sarah Churchill, nicknamed 'Mule' for her stubborn nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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).

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: 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: 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,

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

11 Feb 2022: Lord French asked me to call about tea-time. He said that the P.M. ... situation. French was most bitter about Haig, who, he said, was no judge of men, had surrounded himself with stupid people and bad commanders.

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.

7 Nov 2023: Film crews must be off site by 5.00pm at the latest.

14 Feb 2022: The Oxford by-election gathered international interest. The news magazine Picture Post commented:. ... Hogg was scathing about his opponent’s plan. In his memoirs he recalled:.

14 Feb 2022: He spent much of the middle period of the thirties arguing against making any concessions which might weaken Britain’s hold on India and making scathing comments about Gandhi, whom he ... he harped on about how useless the League of Nations was and