Research Guides
This page lists guides written by Archives staff on the various collections held at Churchill Archives Centre. We have a fantastic wealth of collections of personal papers (almost 600), and the guides below give both guides to the top collections we hold for various subject areas, and deep dives into the contents of specific collections. These act as a way in to our collections for people who are interested in subject areas, or want an in-depth overview of a collection as a whole.
For a brief synopsis of each collection by subject you can apply filters to our Guide to Holdings page, from which you can also follow the links to our full catalogue.
Guides by subject
- Top 10 collections: Empire & colonialism
- Top 10 collections: Foreign policy and international relations
- Top 10 collections: Women in international life
- Top 10 collections: Women in politics & government
- Top 10 collections: Women in arts & literary life
- Top 10 collections: Partners & secretaries
- Top 10 collections: Architecture and Town Planning
- Life writing at Churchill Archives Centre
- Diaries at Churchill Archives Centre
- Irish history, pre-1921
- Irish history, post-1921
- Race and migration
- Women’s suffrage
- Dance at the Archives Centre
- Churchill and Jane Austen
Guides on specific collections
- The Mark Abrams papers (ABMS)
- The end of Amery (Julian Amery, AMEJ)
- ‘Our rather useless hobby’ (Ralph Bagnold, BGND)
- The Papers of William Bull (BULL)
- Alexander Cadogan Papers (ACAD)
- Keep on Dancing (Sarah Churchill, SCHL)
- “Darling Monster” (Lady Diana Cooper, DIAC)
- ‘Goodbye Piccadilly’: The Civic Trust and the post-war built environment (DSND)
- The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards (EDWS)
- A Collection of Her Own (Mary Agnes Hamilton, HMTN)
- Man of Secrets (Maurice Hankey, HNKY)
- Opening of the Headlam-Morley Papers (HDLM)
- Florence Horsbrugh’s Kitchen Scrapbook (HSBR)
- The Papers of Kenneth ‘High Speed Gas’ Hutchison (HTSN)
- The Papers of John Burns Hynd (HYND)
- The Papers of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (LAUT)
- Hunting Pulsars (Mackay, MISC 109)
- The diaries of Gabriele Rabel (RABL)
- Stephen Roskill Scholar-Archivist (ROSK)
- The Opening of the Soames Archives (Mary Soames, MCHL and Christopher Soames, SOAM)
- Interviews with Boni Sones (SOBA)
- Campaigning for an Independent Britain (Nigel Spearing, SPRG)
- In Conversation: Michael Young and Phyllis Willmott (YUNG)