Newly catalogued and opened material

In 2003 the Archives Centre began a programme to provide online information on all our collections.

By May 2004 we had information available for 50 per cent of these. By February 2005 this number was up to 70 per cent and we finally achieved our goal of 100 per cent by February 2006. These online finding aids are available on the ArchiveSearch webserver which provides access to catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge.

Due to our continuing cataloguing programme, we are making more material available to researchers all the time.  Besides whole new collections opening up, additions also continue to be made to our miscellaneous papers (MISC) and to the Additional Churchill Papers (WCHL). Papers which have been closed are also opened regularly, mainly in January each year.

The following list of newly-available papers, which will continue to be updated as more papers are opened up, only includes openings or new cataloguing of significant amounts of material: for the full list of our collections, see our Guide to Holdings.

BIGM: Diary, letters and ephemera from Mary Bigmore, who nursed Sir Winston Churchill after his stroke in 1953, catalogued in 2025 (3 files).

MRCF: Papers of political journalist Chris Moncrieff, catalogued in 2025 (13 boxes)

MISC 119: Copies of the British Zone Review and photojournalistic newspapers published in Nazi Germany, catalogued in 2025 (1 box)

WLCH: Papers of Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon Welchman, catalogued in 2024/2025 (11 boxes)

KHLL and LMAR: Papers of Churchill secretaries Kathleen Hill and Lettice Marston, catalogued in 2025 (9 boxes)

FGRN: Press cutting albums of the journalist Frank ‘Dusty’ Green, catalogued in 2025 (3 boxes)

THRS 1/1 and II 85/3: letters from Winston Churchill to Archibald Sinclair during the First World War and the 1930s, catalogued in 2025 (2 files)