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SUMMARY:The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective
DESCRIPTION:On 15 November 1985 the governments of the United Kingdom and of Ireland signed an Agreement – with the status of an international treaty – which stipulated that Dublin would have a consultative role in the administration of Northern Ireland. This marked the most important constitutional and diplomatic development in Anglo-Irish relations since Partition in 1920. Opposed by both the Unionists and the Republicans\, enthusiastically endorsed by both the US and the EEC\, the Agreement was pursued by Dublin and London as a step to improve security and cooperation in Ireland. However\, it had wider\, partly unintended\, consequences which contributed to the starting of the Peace Process in the 1990s\, in particular by fostering a bi-partisan approach to the Troubles. \n\n\n\nOn the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document\, the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College Cambridge and the Faculty of History\, with the generous support of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade\, organise a major conference. Historians\, in dialogue with some of the policy-makers\, civil servants\, and diplomats who crafted the treaty or were involved in the subsequent Peace Process\, will reassess the making\, immediate impact and long-term legacy of the Agreement. \n\n\n\nClick here for a detailed programme and information about the speakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay one on Thursday 13th November will run 13:00 – 18:30 \n\n\n\nDay two on Friday 14th November will run 09:00 – 16:30
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/the-1985-anglo-irish-agreement-in-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:Churchill College\, Storey's Way\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’  Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle.
DESCRIPTION:Free lecture by Richard Vinen\, Professor of History at King’s College London.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBritish history is often seen as being\, as David Cannadine once put it\, ‘In Churchill’s Shadow.’  It is\, therefore\, revealing to put Churchill alongside de Gaulle because de Gaulle is the one politician in a democratic country to have enjoyed a stature comparable to Churchill.  The fact that the two men are comparable\, though\, does not mean that they are identical. On the contrary\, it is the asymmetries between them and their careers which are most revealing. Churchill was\, above all\, a war leader and\, especially\, the man of 1940.  De Gaulle was almost unknown when he came to London in 1940 and later looked back on the mythologization of his role in that year with exasperation.  De Gaulle was a supremely successful peacetime politician\, who sought to ‘marry France to her century’ and who succeeded in this enterprise at the very moment when the British became painfully conscious of their country’s relative decline and\, sometimes\, of the way in which the cult of their own war leader illustrated that decline.  Comparing Churchill and de Gaulle also highlights qualities in de Gaulle that may seem surprising – his modesty\, flexibility. Both men were\, as de Gaulle said of Churchill\, ‘artists of history’ who crafted their own myth but\, at least in the later part of their careers\, de Gaulle understood\, better than Churchill\, the differences between myth and reality. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRichard Vinen teaches history at King’s College London. He was an Archives by-fellow at Churchill College Cambridge in 2024.  His most recent book – The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle – was published by Bloomsbury in August.  He has written about his research amongst the Archives Centre’s collections in De Gaulle and Churchill: archival encounters with the two titans.
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/de-gaulle-is-france-not-a-bastard-churchill-in-the-shadow-of-de-gaulle/
LOCATION:Sixties Room\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Bob Edwards centenary: His life\, work and legacy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this panel session on Robert Edwards’ Life and Legacy chaired by Roger Highfield (Director of the Science Museum Group). \n\n\n\nThe panel will feature Emma Barnett (British Broadcaster and Journalist with a young IVF child)\, Fiona Bennett (former Executive Editor of Reproductive BioMedicine Online journal which Bob started)\, Louise Brown (the first IVF baby)\, Professor Sir Richard Gardner (Bob’s PhD student and Oxford University Lecturer)\, Dr Jenny Joy (Bob’s daughter and creator of his archive)\, and Dr Mike Macnamee (former CEO of Bourn Hall Clinic who knew Bob well) \n\n\n\nA display of copies from archives relating to the history of IVF will be available to view before and after the panel session. There will also be a drinks reception for all attendees following the panel session. \n\n\n\nThe Life and Legacy panel session at Churchill College is part of a two-part conference\, and an earlier session on Science and clinical practice organised by the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research will take part earlier in the day. For more information and to register for either\, or both\, sessions see our event registration page. \n\n\n\nThe Bob Edwards centenary conference is supported by Cambridge Reproduction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography compiled by Dr Jenny Joy (one of Bob’s five daughters and creator of his archive)A Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge from 1979\, having been a Senior Member from 1974\, Sir Robert (Bob) Edwards stands as one of the most influential scientific figures of the 20th century. Alongside Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy\, he carried out basic and clinical research that led to the successful implementation of in vitro fertilisation as a treatment of infertility in 1978. The three established Bourn Hall Clinic in Cambridge in 1980\, the world’s first IVF clinic. Bob Edwards was born in Batley\, West Yorkshire\, in 1925 to a working-class family. He stands as one of the most influential scientific figures of the 20th century. A charismatic and engaging Yorkshireman\, his unwavering determination\, farsightedness\, and intellectual rigour brought about a revolution in infertility treatment\, earning him the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2010. After serving in the army and completing a degree in zoology at the University of Bangor in 1951\, he moved to the Institute of Animal Genetics at the University of Edinburgh\, where he obtained a doctorate in genetics under Alan Beatty in 1955. His research work here was focussed on understanding chromosomal errors in egg maturation\, leading him to collaborate with his future wife\, Ruth Fowler\, who would also become his lifelong scientific collaborator. Ruth was a geneticist and was descended from a line of distinguished scientists and her highly significant research work in the field spanned more than three decades. After spells of working in California\, London\, and Glasgow\, Bob accepted a fellowship in Cambridge in 1963. It was during these early days in Cambridge that human egg maturation and its anomalies\, and achieving human fertilisation in vitro\, came to dominate his interests. He was a prolific writer during this time\, with his publications including a 1965 paper in The Lancet that laid out the course of IVF studies for the next two decades and a 1969 paper in Nature with Barry Bavister and Patrick Steptoe describing the first fertilisation of a human egg in vitro. Bob was also a strong advocate for public understanding of science\, particularly its role in addressing infertility and genetic disorders. His insights on reproductive bioethics and his key role in founding the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology and running its journals solidified his reputation as a key figure in reproductive medicine. In 2000\, at the age of 75\, he launched Reproductive BioMedicine Online\, a journal that emphasised rapid publication and the exploration of controversial topics. His tireless energy and indefatigable interest in scientific advances meant he was still attending conferences\, promoting his journal and giving lectures into his early eighties. He died in 2013 aged 87 after a long illness.\n\n\n\nRoger Highfield is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group\, where he worked on the exhibition IVF: 6 Million Babies Later\, and a visiting professor at the Dunn School\, Oxford\, and UCL. Before\, he joined the Group\, he was the editor of New Scientist and Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph\, where he interviewed Bob Edwards several times. A member of the UKRI-Medical Research Council\, Roger has written ten popular science books\, including After Dolly (with Ian Wilmut) and The Dance of Life (with Magda Zernicka-Goetz). www.rogerhighfield.com \n\n\n\nRoger Highfield\n\n\n\nEmma Barnett is an award-winning broadcaster\, journalist and author. She joined the Today programme\, the BBC’s flagship breakfast news show\, in May 2024 – as she assumed a wider role across BBC TV and News\, fronting documentaries and exclusive interviews.  \n\n\n\nUntil April 2024\, Emma was the presenter of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4\, the longest running women’s programme in the world – a show she took to become the BBC’s most downloaded podcast. She has twice been named the UK’s best speech radio presenter by the ARIAS. Known for her agenda-setting interviews and scoops delivered in her warm but forensic manner\, Emma has welcomed queens and prime ministers\, pop stars and political prisoners to talk with her on the microphone – with many others along the way. \n\n\n\nShe previously presented BBC’s Newsnight and her eponymous daily\, three hour BBC 5 Live radio programme.  \n\n\n\nShe wrote the books ‘Period. It’s About Bloody Time’ and ‘Maternity Service’\, as well as writing a bi-weekly newspaper column for The iPaper. \n\n\n\nEmma also presented a global interviews programme on Bloomberg TV – with high profile one-to-one interviews with international figures from across the world of politics\, sport\, culture\, entertainment and technology.  \n\n\n\nEmma Barnett\n\n\n\nFiona Bennett was one of the small team which founded Reproductive BioMedicine Online in 2000. She arrived at this point via a B.Sc. degree with Honours in Genetics from Edinburgh University\, a Commonwealth Scholarship to the University of British Columbia\, an M.Sc. degree in plant host–parasite relationships and jobs as a plant pathologist at both the Scottish Plant Breeding Station near Edinburgh and the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge. Following a 6-year career break for her three children\, she took on a part-time editorial role working with Bob Edwards on the journal Human Reproduction at Bourn Hall. Ten years later in 2000\, by now almost full-time\, Bob asked her to join him as Executive Editor of RBMOnline – his new\, revolutionary publishing venture. Her role involved setting up all office systems\, quality control of content\, timely publication of papers online and in print\, as well as travelling widely with Bob to conferences and meetings. Fiona retired from active involvement in RBMOnline in 2010. \n\n\n\nFiona Bennett\n\n\n\nLouise Brown was born on 25 July 1978 amid a media frenzy around the world and called “the test tube baby”. Her birth was the result of the pioneering work of Sir Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe and their team\, including research assistant and embryologist Jean Purdy. It also marked the conclusion of a 10 years trying to conceive by her parents John and Lesley Brown.  \n\n\n\nToday Louise works in a bakery as well as travelling the world meeting people in the ever-growing fertility sector. \n\n\n\nLouise Brown\n\n\n\nProfessor Sir Richard Gardner studied Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s Cambridge before doing a PhD in the Physiological Laboratory with Bob Edwards. In 1973 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Zoology at Oxford where\, from 1978 until his retirement in 2008\, he held a Royal Society Research Professorship. His research interests include investigating the lineage and patterning of cells in early mammalian development and the biology and properties of the various types of stem cells derived from early embryos. \n\n\n\nGardner was awarded the Zoological Society’s Scientific Medal in 1977 and elected to the Royal Society in 1979. He received the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology in 1999\, the Royal Society’s Royal Medal in 2001\, and a Knighthood in 2005. Gardner gave the British Fertility Society’s Patrick Steptoe Memorial Lecture in 2015 and was awarded the British Society for Developmental Biology’s Waddington Medal in 2018. For many years he chaired the Royal Society’s working group on ‘human embryo research’\, and in 2006-8 served as President of the Institute of Biology (now the Royal Society of Biology). \n\n\n\nRichard Gardner\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDr Jenny Joy is the second of Bob Edwards’ five daughters. She was involved in his working life from a young age\, first by helping with the references for his landmark book Conception in the Human Female\, and then by two periods of work at Bourn Hall (first as an auxiliary nurse when it first opened\, and later helping in the labs during the first attempts at micro-manipulation). Following his death in 2013\, she spent many months cataloguing all the working papers that he had stored at his home at Duck End Farm\, and these today form the bulk of his archive. \n\n\n\nJenny was instrumental in getting one of Edwards’ Oldham incubators to the Science Museum\, and was a Trustee of the Edwards and Steptoe Research Trust. She also takes any opportunity to promote her father’s work to ensure he is not forgotten. More recently she has focussed on her mother’s huge contribution to this work which has not previously been widely recognised. \n\n\n\nJenny Joy\n\n\n\nDr Mike Macnamee joined the Bourn Hall team as an endocrinologist in 1985. He became the Vice President of pre-clinical development for Serono after its acquisition of Bourn Hall and led the successful management buyout in 2005 regaining Bourn Hall’s independence. \n\n\n\nMike worked with Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe throughout the 1980s to help develop IVF into a robust clinical therapy. \n\n\n\nMike Macnamee
URL:https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/bob-edwards-centenary-his-life-work-and-legacy/
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Churchill College\, Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire\, CB3 0DS\, United Kingdom
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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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