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SUMMARY:Archives Centre Open Day
DESCRIPTION:Home to over 600 collections on the history of modern Britain\, Churchill Archives Centre opens its doors for an open day\, as part of Open Cambridge. The Archives Centre looks after the papers of politicians\, civil servants\, social scientists\, campaigners\, journalists\, military leaders\, and scientists. \n\n\n\nVisit our reading rooms to see archival treasures from across our collections\, including some of our most popular items and those showcasing the incredible history of modern architecture. \n\n\n\nFind out how architectural blueprints are made as we demonstrate the creation of photographic blueprints (cyanotypes). Learn more about this historic photographic process and the conservation and preservation of our architectural plans and other papers. See demonstrations of the processes of cleaning\, flattening\, repairs and housing of historic papers. \n\n\n\nMeet our friendly team to learn more about both our collections and all the work that goes into sharing them. \n\n\n\nAnd if you’re interested in learning more about Churchill College\, then book onto a tour of College’s grounds and gardens\, taking place at 1pm. \n\n\n\nFor a map of the College site\, indicating the location of the Archives Centre and parking\, please click here. \n\n\n\nPlease note we have a Changing Places toilet in the adjacent main Churchill College building.
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/open-cambridge-archives-centre-day/
LOCATION:Churchill Archives Centre\, Churchill College\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Festival Open Afternoon
DESCRIPTION:Home to over 600 collections on the history of modern Britain\, the Archives Centre opens its doors for an open day as part of the Cambridge Festival. The Archives Centre looks after the papers of politicians\, civil servants\, social scientists\, campaigners\, journalists\, military leaders\, and scientists. Visit our reading rooms to see archival treasures from across our collections\, including those documenting the history of modern Cambridge. Visit the document repair shop to find out how our conservators deal with dirty\, damaged and decaying paper in the archives. Drop in to see demonstrations of the processes of cleaning\, flattening and repairing old documents. And even have a go yourself! Meet our friendly team of archivists to learn more about both our collections and all the work that goes into sharing our collections.
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/open-afternoon/
LOCATION:Churchill Archives Centre\, Churchill College\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Master’s Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Professor Sharon Peacock FMedSci CBE in conversation with Mr Allen Packwood & Lord Richard Dannatt\, authors of ‘Churchill’s D-Day: The Inside Story’
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/the-masters-book-club/
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SUMMARY:“The Case for Gas”: National Energy Transition in Postwar Britain
DESCRIPTION:Free talk by Dr Kathy Davies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUntil the late 1960s\, Britain powered its homes\, industries\, and empire with coal. Coal consumption reached its peak in the postwar period\, but by the end of the century\, the national energy landscape had dramatically changed. Over 90% of households used gas-fired systems and Britain was a net exporter of natural gas. \n\n\n\nThis talk explores the national transition from coal to gas. It illuminates the revival of the gas industry at a time of relative decline; the changing relationship between gas and coal; the role of women in energy transition; and the connection between energy and environmental politics in twentieth century Britain. This history continues to shape national fuel and power and prospective transition to the present day. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kathy Davies is an early career historian working on social and political histories of energy\, environment\, and sustainability in Britain. She is the current Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College\, University of Cambridge\, the new Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the British Library\, and co-Chair of History Lab Plus\, Institute of Historical Research. Kathy has a background in multimethod and interdisciplinary research\, and in public and policy engagement. She is an alumnus of Sheffield Hallam University. \n\n\n\nDr Kathy Davies
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/the-case-for-gas-national-energy-transition-in-postwar-britain/
LOCATION:Sixties Room\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:2025 Antcliffe Lecture: 'Challenges in UK Foreign Policy'\, by Baroness Ashton
DESCRIPTION:Baroness Ashton\n\n\n\nThe 10th annual John Antcliffe Lecture in British politics will be delivered at Churchill College\, Cambridge\, by Baroness Catherine Ashton of Upholland on 17th March 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for this free event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBARONESS CATHERINE ASHTON LG GCMG\, PC  \n\n\n\nBaroness Catherine Ashton served as the European Union’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from 2009 to 2014 and now holds several portfolios in foreign and security policy.  She is a Distinguished fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC and a consultant to the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. As a member of the House of Lords she serves on the European Affairs Committee and chairs the Space and the UK Committee. \n\n\n\nOn behalf of the UN Security Council\, she chaired the negotiations that ultimately resulted in the agreement with Iran on its nuclear programme. She also worked with the Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo leading to the Brussels agreement\, for which she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Previously\, she was the first female EU Commissioner for Trade. \n\n\n\nPrior to becoming an EU commissioner\, she was a UK government minister in the House of Lords. She served in the Education and Justice departments\, before being promoted to the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords. \n\n\n\nCatherine has received many honours\, notably from the King of Jordan\, Germany\, and the UK where she is the first woman Chancellor of the Order of St Michael and St George.  In 2023 King Charles III made her a member of the Garter\, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry.
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/antcliffe-lecture/
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Churchill and Bismarck: Common traits – common fates?
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Dr Franziska Augstein\nMore than once\, Winston Churchill has been compared to the other two great democratic leaders during the Second World War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. As he is universally known as a man always true to his roots in the 19th century\, Dr Augstein suggests another comparison: In how far did his frame of mind\, his political style\, and his “raison d’être” resemble those of Otto von Bismarck? Arguably\, during peace times Bismarck was more interested in England than Churchill was in Germany. Also\, at home both statesmen were faced with very different challenges. Yet in glory and in failure they may have had more in common than what at first sight meets the eye.\n\nFree and open to all.\n\nImage © Marlena Waldthausen\n\n \nSpeaker:\nDr Franziska Augstein\n\nFranziska Augstein\, born in Hamburg\, studied history\, philosophy and politics in Berlin\, Bielefeld\, at the University of Sussex and UCL. For the daughter of Rudolf Augstein\, publisher of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel\, it was an obvious idea to venture into journalism. While studying at university\, she published freelance articles in various papers. In 1997 she became an editor at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, focusing on the intersections where history\, the arts\, and politics meet. From 2001 until 2021 she worked at Süddeutsche Zeitung\, first at the arts pages\, then as “political books” editor\, and until 2021 as columnist (“Augstein’s World”) at the paper’s “economics” section. Since 2021 her main work has been dedicated to her books.\n\nIn 1998 she was awarded the Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Förderpreis; in 2000 the Theodor-Wolff-Preis (Essay) of the Federal Association of German News Publishers. In 2008 she published Von Treue und Verrat. Jorge Semprún und sein Jahrhundert; in 2021 Von Wagemut\, Irrtum und Verblendung. Einblicke in politökonomische Schlamassel (including a spirited review of Brexit); in 2024 Winston Churchill. Biographie.
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/churchill-and-bismarck-common-traits-common-fates/
LOCATION:Sixties Room\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
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