Churchill Archives Centre
@chuarchives.bsky.social
Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
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It's really important to us here at the Archives Centre that our researchers find our reading room an inclusive, friendly space.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
On yesterday's The World Tonight, David Maxwell Fyfe's grandson, Tom Blackmore, spoke about reading the personal letters sent between David and his wife, Sylvia during the Nuremberg Trails which we look after here at the Archives Centre.
🎧 Listen from 34:34 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🎧 Listen from 34:34 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On yesterday's The World Tonight, David Maxwell Fyfe's grandson, Tom Blackmore, spoke about reading the personal letters sent between David and his wife, Sylvia during the Nuremberg Trails which we look after here at the Archives Centre.
🎧 Listen from 34:34 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
🎧 Listen from 34:34 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today marks 80 years since the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials.
At the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Lord Kilmuir, who as David Maxwell Fyfe, was the British Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
At the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Lord Kilmuir, who as David Maxwell Fyfe, was the British Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Today marks 80 years since the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials.
At the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Lord Kilmuir, who as David Maxwell Fyfe, was the British Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
At the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Lord Kilmuir, who as David Maxwell Fyfe, was the British Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
We loved hosting our annual visit for students studying the Modern British History MPhil here in Cambridge.
In our 2 hour session, we worked with students to explore what it means to look after collections, from when they enter our sorting room to going out to researchers in our reading room!
In our 2 hour session, we worked with students to explore what it means to look after collections, from when they enter our sorting room to going out to researchers in our reading room!
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We loved hosting our annual visit for students studying the Modern British History MPhil here in Cambridge.
In our 2 hour session, we worked with students to explore what it means to look after collections, from when they enter our sorting room to going out to researchers in our reading room!
In our 2 hour session, we worked with students to explore what it means to look after collections, from when they enter our sorting room to going out to researchers in our reading room!
To commemorate Armistice Day, we share this truly historic item: the pen that was used to sign the Armistice, at 5 a.m. on 11 November 1918. It was given to the Churchill family by the nephew of Admiral Wemyss, who as 1st Sea Lord signed the Armistice on behalf of the Government (BRDW V 5/1).
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
To commemorate Armistice Day, we share this truly historic item: the pen that was used to sign the Armistice, at 5 a.m. on 11 November 1918. It was given to the Churchill family by the nephew of Admiral Wemyss, who as 1st Sea Lord signed the Armistice on behalf of the Government (BRDW V 5/1).
🎉 Happy World Digital Preservation Day!
💾 From 3D printing to cleaning, collaborations between the Archives Centre and Churchill College have been vital to rescuing data from the floppy disks we look after in our collections.
🔗 Read more in our new blog: buff.ly/HQ3AOMF
#wdpd2025
💾 From 3D printing to cleaning, collaborations between the Archives Centre and Churchill College have been vital to rescuing data from the floppy disks we look after in our collections.
🔗 Read more in our new blog: buff.ly/HQ3AOMF
#wdpd2025
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🎉 Happy World Digital Preservation Day!
💾 From 3D printing to cleaning, collaborations between the Archives Centre and Churchill College have been vital to rescuing data from the floppy disks we look after in our collections.
🔗 Read more in our new blog: buff.ly/HQ3AOMF
#wdpd2025
💾 From 3D printing to cleaning, collaborations between the Archives Centre and Churchill College have been vital to rescuing data from the floppy disks we look after in our collections.
🔗 Read more in our new blog: buff.ly/HQ3AOMF
#wdpd2025
Join us next week to explore the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in a two day conference. Click here to get your tickets, view the detailed programme and information about all of our interesting speakers! buff.ly/jv7favU
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join us next week to explore the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in a two day conference. Click here to get your tickets, view the detailed programme and information about all of our interesting speakers! buff.ly/jv7favU
🎉 And it’s History Day!
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🎉 And it’s History Day!
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
🎃 In 1930, the solicitor George Bull received a Halloween invitation from Isla and Edward Mitchell.
👻📜Guests were advised to wear old clothes as 'cats and ghosts get rough'...
George's father William, preserved this invite in a volume which forms a part of a new accession to the Bull papers.
👻📜Guests were advised to wear old clothes as 'cats and ghosts get rough'...
George's father William, preserved this invite in a volume which forms a part of a new accession to the Bull papers.
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎃 In 1930, the solicitor George Bull received a Halloween invitation from Isla and Edward Mitchell.
👻📜Guests were advised to wear old clothes as 'cats and ghosts get rough'...
George's father William, preserved this invite in a volume which forms a part of a new accession to the Bull papers.
👻📜Guests were advised to wear old clothes as 'cats and ghosts get rough'...
George's father William, preserved this invite in a volume which forms a part of a new accession to the Bull papers.
🎉 We were delighted to hear from @robert-yee.bsky.social who has just published his first book 'The City’s Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance' supported by the Jennie Churchill Fund.
🥳 A huge congratulations Robert from the Archives Centre team!
🥳 A huge congratulations Robert from the Archives Centre team!
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🎉 We were delighted to hear from @robert-yee.bsky.social who has just published his first book 'The City’s Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance' supported by the Jennie Churchill Fund.
🥳 A huge congratulations Robert from the Archives Centre team!
🥳 A huge congratulations Robert from the Archives Centre team!
We're currently digitising the HMV gramophone records called ‘The Progress of the War’ 1940-43, which contain some of Churchill's most famous speeches.
Here you can see our college’s AV technician carefully placing a cleaned record onto the turntable, ready to capture its sound using a stylus.
Here you can see our college’s AV technician carefully placing a cleaned record onto the turntable, ready to capture its sound using a stylus.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We're currently digitising the HMV gramophone records called ‘The Progress of the War’ 1940-43, which contain some of Churchill's most famous speeches.
Here you can see our college’s AV technician carefully placing a cleaned record onto the turntable, ready to capture its sound using a stylus.
Here you can see our college’s AV technician carefully placing a cleaned record onto the turntable, ready to capture its sound using a stylus.
📢 NEW exhibition: Snapshots & Scraps: The Evolution of 20th Century Photo & Scrap Albums
🚼 On this day 103 years ago, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington was born. Our new exhibition uses her collection to explore how photograph & scrap albums evolved.
buff.ly/JHHrzPO
🚼 On this day 103 years ago, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington was born. Our new exhibition uses her collection to explore how photograph & scrap albums evolved.
buff.ly/JHHrzPO
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢 NEW exhibition: Snapshots & Scraps: The Evolution of 20th Century Photo & Scrap Albums
🚼 On this day 103 years ago, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington was born. Our new exhibition uses her collection to explore how photograph & scrap albums evolved.
buff.ly/JHHrzPO
🚼 On this day 103 years ago, Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington was born. Our new exhibition uses her collection to explore how photograph & scrap albums evolved.
buff.ly/JHHrzPO
It's really important to us here at the Archives Centre that our researchers find our reading room an inclusive, friendly space.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It's really important to us here at the Archives Centre that our researchers find our reading room an inclusive, friendly space.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
Join our Archive Assistants as they show you around...
Music by Bensound, AKU3OS8UCYHVBSU8.
📢 A valuable resource for historians, archivists, and students alike...
📹 Watch 'Groundbreakers' a new documentary where some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history reflect on their personal and political journeys.
📹 Watch 'Groundbreakers' a new documentary where some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history reflect on their personal and political journeys.
Groundbreakers
In this 2-hour Groundbreakers documentary film, some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history document their personal and political journeys. Women across parties tell their…
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October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📢 A valuable resource for historians, archivists, and students alike...
📹 Watch 'Groundbreakers' a new documentary where some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history reflect on their personal and political journeys.
📹 Watch 'Groundbreakers' a new documentary where some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history reflect on their personal and political journeys.
Reposted by Churchill Archives Centre
Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London, will be giving a free lecture at Churchill College on 21st October, titled ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle. No need to register, the event is free and open to all buff.ly/2gTriyk
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London, will be giving a free lecture at Churchill College on 21st October, titled ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle. No need to register, the event is free and open to all buff.ly/2gTriyk
2 new #BDOHP interviews today: Nicholas Westcott, buff.ly/IntZo8s (worth the read just for the story of John Kerr hiding under the table during the Maastricht negotiations) and Japan expert Paul Dimond, buff.ly/7WOJlxQ
October 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
2 new #BDOHP interviews today: Nicholas Westcott, buff.ly/IntZo8s (worth the read just for the story of John Kerr hiding under the table during the Maastricht negotiations) and Japan expert Paul Dimond, buff.ly/7WOJlxQ
💾 Our Digital Archivist Chris Knowles is supporting the Future Nostalgia project, led by our friends at the @theul.bsky.social.
🕵️The project brings together old hardware to read rare and unusual floppy disks.
Discover how this work is helping prevent a digital dark age in this BBC feature. ⬇️
🕵️The project brings together old hardware to read rare and unusual floppy disks.
Discover how this work is helping prevent a digital dark age in this BBC feature. ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
💾 Our Digital Archivist Chris Knowles is supporting the Future Nostalgia project, led by our friends at the @theul.bsky.social.
🕵️The project brings together old hardware to read rare and unusual floppy disks.
Discover how this work is helping prevent a digital dark age in this BBC feature. ⬇️
🕵️The project brings together old hardware to read rare and unusual floppy disks.
Discover how this work is helping prevent a digital dark age in this BBC feature. ⬇️
Last week we had an exciting visit...
We introduced the Archives Centre to 10 undergraduates who are beginning their studies in History and HSPS (Human, Social, and Political Sciences) at Churchill College, Cambridge.
We hope you find archives useful in your academic journeys!
We introduced the Archives Centre to 10 undergraduates who are beginning their studies in History and HSPS (Human, Social, and Political Sciences) at Churchill College, Cambridge.
We hope you find archives useful in your academic journeys!
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Last week we had an exciting visit...
We introduced the Archives Centre to 10 undergraduates who are beginning their studies in History and HSPS (Human, Social, and Political Sciences) at Churchill College, Cambridge.
We hope you find archives useful in your academic journeys!
We introduced the Archives Centre to 10 undergraduates who are beginning their studies in History and HSPS (Human, Social, and Political Sciences) at Churchill College, Cambridge.
We hope you find archives useful in your academic journeys!
Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document.
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document.
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
📖 Louise Brown (the first IVF baby) has written about the Edwards Centenary Conference panel session which we hosted on the 26th September. Read it here: buff.ly/N1i5xAT
#ivf #ivfhistory @rogerhighfield.bsky.social
#ivf #ivfhistory @rogerhighfield.bsky.social
Celebrating 100 Years of IVF Pioneer Sir Robert Edwards at Cambridge — Louise Brown: World's First IVF Baby
Churchill College, Cambridge, recently hosted a moving celebration of Sir Robert Edwards’ 100th birthday. As the first IVF baby, I joined a panel reflecting on Bob’s legacy—from his groundbreaking…
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October 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📖 Louise Brown (the first IVF baby) has written about the Edwards Centenary Conference panel session which we hosted on the 26th September. Read it here: buff.ly/N1i5xAT
#ivf #ivfhistory @rogerhighfield.bsky.social
#ivf #ivfhistory @rogerhighfield.bsky.social
Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London, will be giving a free lecture at Churchill College on 21st October, titled ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle. No need to register, the event is free and open to all buff.ly/2gTriyk
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London, will be giving a free lecture at Churchill College on 21st October, titled ‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle. No need to register, the event is free and open to all buff.ly/2gTriyk
🎉 It's one month until we'll be hosting our stall at History Day!
📅 Tuesday 4th November
🕰️ Drop in between 11:00-16:00
📍 Senate House, London
🎟️ Book your free place here: buff.ly/fBb8TJR
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
📅 Tuesday 4th November
🕰️ Drop in between 11:00-16:00
📍 Senate House, London
🎟️ Book your free place here: buff.ly/fBb8TJR
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🎉 It's one month until we'll be hosting our stall at History Day!
📅 Tuesday 4th November
🕰️ Drop in between 11:00-16:00
📍 Senate House, London
🎟️ Book your free place here: buff.ly/fBb8TJR
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
📅 Tuesday 4th November
🕰️ Drop in between 11:00-16:00
📍 Senate House, London
🎟️ Book your free place here: buff.ly/fBb8TJR
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
📦 In 1983, Black Labour Party MPs established the Labour Party Black Sections. Black Sections worked towards political representation for Black communities.
📕In 1988, the group published The Black Agenda, exploring policing, racism, fascism, immigration, education, and employment.
📕In 1988, the group published The Black Agenda, exploring policing, racism, fascism, immigration, education, and employment.
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📦 In 1983, Black Labour Party MPs established the Labour Party Black Sections. Black Sections worked towards political representation for Black communities.
📕In 1988, the group published The Black Agenda, exploring policing, racism, fascism, immigration, education, and employment.
📕In 1988, the group published The Black Agenda, exploring policing, racism, fascism, immigration, education, and employment.
🎥 Last week our team of Archive Assistants spent an afternoon filming a video on what we do to make our reading room a comfortable and productive space for our researchers.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
September 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🎥 Last week our team of Archive Assistants spent an afternoon filming a video on what we do to make our reading room a comfortable and productive space for our researchers.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
Article by one of Friday evening's panellists Emma Barnett reflecting on the Bob Edwards Centenary conference panel session: emmabarnett.substack.com/p/the-painfu...
#ivf #ivfhistory
#ivf #ivfhistory
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Article by one of Friday evening's panellists Emma Barnett reflecting on the Bob Edwards Centenary conference panel session: emmabarnett.substack.com/p/the-painfu...
#ivf #ivfhistory
#ivf #ivfhistory
On Friday evening we were delighted to host a panel session for the Bob Edwards Centenary conference: His life, work and legacy
Thank you to all our speakers, our chair @rogerhighfield.bsky.social and everyone who came along and made it such a great event! 🙏
Supported by @cam-repro.bsky.social
Thank you to all our speakers, our chair @rogerhighfield.bsky.social and everyone who came along and made it such a great event! 🙏
Supported by @cam-repro.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On Friday evening we were delighted to host a panel session for the Bob Edwards Centenary conference: His life, work and legacy
Thank you to all our speakers, our chair @rogerhighfield.bsky.social and everyone who came along and made it such a great event! 🙏
Supported by @cam-repro.bsky.social
Thank you to all our speakers, our chair @rogerhighfield.bsky.social and everyone who came along and made it such a great event! 🙏
Supported by @cam-repro.bsky.social