Churchill Archives Centre

Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures @ChurchillCol

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In the latest interview for our 'What the Papers Say' series, Allen Packwood sat down with Boni Sones OBE to discuss her incredible work founding the Women’s Parliamentary Radio Channel.

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⭐ Happy International Women’s Day! ⭐

🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow @satisfactory20 explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.

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🗞️ As well as details of their domestic and social life, the letters reveal the extent of their collaboration as writer and photographer on a series of projects, including their influential travel and lifestyle features for Vogue and House & Garden.

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🌈For LGBT+ History month, we're spotlighting the papers of the diplomat and writer Valentine Lawford.🌈

📨 Recently Valentine's family generously gave us the letters which he sent to his parents between 1927 & 1964.

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🗽 Valentine and Horst met in New York City in 1947 and Valentine resigned his career in the diplomatic service and settled in the United States so they could be together. They made their home in a modernist house designed by Horst at Oyster Bay Cove on Long Island.

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🖊️ Thank you to Dr Franziska Augstein for signing a copy of her German biography of Winston Churchill for the Roskill Library.

📘 Franziska gave us a copy of her book after delivering a lecture on the comparative biographies of Churchill & Bismarck.

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📣Free talk on "The Case for Gas": National Energy Transition in Postwar Britain by Archives By-Fellow Dr Kathy Davies.

📅 19th March
⏰ 5:30
📍 Sixties Room, @churchillcol.

https://t.co/9i5T1sQus1

No booking required.

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Join us on the 17th March for the 10th annual Antcliffe Lecture.
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Register for your free ticket here: https://t.co/x0NzqLNnXZ

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Join us for the 10th annual John Antcliffe Lecture in British Politics delivered this year by Baroness Catherine Ashton LG GCMG, PC.

‘Challenges in UK Foreign Policy’
🕕17:30
📅 17 March 2025
📍 Churchill College, CB3 0DS

Register now: https://t.co/vfrgFshBrK

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Let's return to Dieppe - and to the First World War.

In the second of a two-part blog, By-Fellow Sharon Mather shares Anne Seagrim’s memories of growing up in Dieppe.

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📣Join us for our Open Afternoon as part of @Cambridge_Fest.

📅 Sat 22nd March
⏰ 1:30-4:30pm
📍 Churchill Archives Centre

⭐️Visit our reading rooms, document repair shop, meet our friendly team to learn more about our collections & work.

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#CamFest

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⛱️ This Monday morning, we want to whisk you off to the charming French town of Dieppe in Normandy.

Sharon Mather uncovers some of the famous residents who lived in Dieppe, including Clementine Churchill's mother, Blanche.

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And finally, in our Valentines series, here is Clementine in 1943, after nearly 35 years of marriage, when the (purring) Kat informs her husband that she "would love a little visit presently" (ref CSCT 1/27/20).

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Day 4 of our Valentines thread, and this time Clemmie the Kat has been the slow one, in 1918: “I was dozing peacefully & innocently in my basket with my tail over my eyes when your scolding about no letters arrived”, so she hastily promises to write soon! (Ref CSCT 1/10/3)

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Join us at 5:30 today to hear Dr Franziska Augstein's talk exploring the similarities between Winston Churchill & Otto von Bismarck. All welcome.

📆 12th February
🕠 5:30-7pm
📍Sixties Room, Churchill College

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Day 3 of our Valentines series, still in 1909, as Clementine writes "Good-night my darling Pug - I must have lessons in Kat-drawing as your pugs are so much better than my Kats. Your loving Clemmie" (complete with kitten, or their baby daughter Diana). (Ref CSCT 1/3/37).

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On this day, 50 years ago, Margaret Thatcher became the first female leader of the Conservative Party.

Here at the Archives Centre, we hold the papers of Margaret Thatcher, which contain over 1 million documents in nearly 3,000 boxes.

📷 THCR AS 3/10, © Graham Wiltshire FRPS

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Moving on to Clementine and Churchill's first anniversary in 1909, and this letter from "your most loving Clemmie Kat, Miaow!", though "no letter from the bad little Pug yet. The Kat's tail is gradually getting its curl back as you see from the picture!" (ref CSCT 1/3/23).