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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New archival material now available online
Today we are publishing a new set of material to our online Access Portal, totalling 14690 images in 105 files across 5 collections. While we are very pleased to be […]
Sir Eric Seal, Churchill’s ‘submarine’ secretary
Photograph of Sir Eric Seal, by Walter Stoneman (bromide print, 1955, NPG x185197)© National Portrait Gallery, London We are lucky enough to have the archives of many of Sir Winston […]
Spies, Secrets, and Nuclear Fears: Twelve Years of the Mitrokhin Archive
July 2026 marks the twelfth anniversary of the opening of the Mitrokhin Archive at the Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge — one of the most remarkable intelligence collections in […]
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 […]