Celebrating 50 years of preservation and access

In 2023-2024, we celebrated 50 years since the opening of Churchill Archives Centre.

Purpose-built to house the papers of Winston Churchill and his contemporaries, we now hold the personal papers of over 570 leading political, scientific, military, and literary figures. For decades, their collections have been consulted by researchers all over the world, to broaden and enrich our understanding of the history of modern Britain today.

We marked our 50th Anniversary with an online exhibition curated by students at Anglia Ruskin University. We also launched an online Access Portal and ran a two-day conference exploring the history and future of the archives, alongside current research projects. On social media, our ‘50 stories for 50 years’ series highlighted stories from researchers, staff and volunteers about their time at the archives.