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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Digging for Data: Recovering Files from Forgotten Word Processing Systems
By Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst, Cambridge University Libraries & Archives (CULA) and Chris Knowles, Digital Archivist, Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) Early last summer, Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design within […]
The blast from an Atomic Bomb
By Andrew Brown, Archives Centre researcher and author of ‘The Neutron and Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick’ (Oxford, 1997) On 10 May 1941, the Trinity College physicist and […]
How to preserve your past: Caring for your own photographs and archives at home
As part of the Cambridge Festival 2026 Churchill Archives Centre collaborated with Cassia Clarke, independent community archivist, to host a workshop on caring for photographs and other archive material at […]
Archive By-Fellow’s Report, Dr Jacob Ward: The Futures of Britain, Europe, and Mars
I came to Churchill as an Archive By-Fellow from September to December 2024 to investigate the history of ‘futurology’ in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1990s. Futurology […]
Churchill Archives Centre Future Development
Churchill College’s Governing Body has voted in favour of plans to build a new Churchill Archives Centre within the Grounds of the College. This vote took place after a period […]