Churchill Archives Centre
Where the modern history of Britain is open to all
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The Churchill Archives Centre is a world-leading collection of 20th Century history.
“Where the modern history of Britain is open to all”
The Archives Centre began by collecting the papers of Winston Churchill and other contemporaries and has grown to become an important resource for the study of modern history from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Our collections encompass the personal papers of individuals who made and remade British domestic politics and international relations, advanced scientific knowledge, and who observed or transformed society, economics and culture. These materials record key events and trends in the history of Britain and beyond. The Centre continues to collect.
The Archives Centre has been awarded Accreditation by The National Archives and the Churchill Papers have been entered on the UNESCO International Register of the Memory of the World.
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Teamwork Makes the Data Work: World Digital Preservation Day 2025
By Chris Knowles, Digital Archivist and David Parker, Conservator For World Digital Preservation Day this year, we’d like to highlight some of the collaborations in our organisation that have helped […]
De Gaulle and Churchill: archival encounters with the two titans
Everyone knows that the Churchill Archives Centre contains some of the most important documents on British political history. More surprising is how much it contains on France, a country Churchill loved, […]
Conserving Baroness Trumpington’s Scrapbooks
Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington (1922-2018), served in naval intelligence at Bletchley Park during World War Two, and as a Land Girl to David Lloyd George. She went on to serve […]
The origins of the ABC1 social grading system
The National Readership Survey’s (NRS) ABC1 social-grading scheme – with its signature split of the middling C-classes into the C1s and C2s – is the most widely understood and quoted […]
80 years since Victory in Europe Day
Marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Deborah Prentice, visited the Churchill Archives Centre to view some of the unique […]