How to preserve your past: Workshop on caring for your own photographs and archives at home
2026-03-21 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom
Free event, registration essential

The event is fully booked but you can join the waiting list

Join Churchill Archives Centre and independent community archivist and artist educator Cassia Clarke for a practical, hands-on session designed to equip you with mindful and practical approaches to handle, store and preserve your personal photographs and ephemera at home. The session will blend compassionate conservation principles with practical and sustainable methodologies.

The workshop will include sessions on the purpose, handling, documentation and storage of your own archives. There will also be a display of example archival materials from Churchill Archives Centre collections such as personal journals, scrapbooks and photograph albums.

This workshop is supported by Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and is part of the Cambridge Festival

Breaking Barriers: Women in Politics panel discussion with clips from 'Groundbreakers' documentary
2026-03-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom
Free event in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. No need to book.

Baroness Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Gillian Shephard, Deborah McGurran, Anne Campbell, Dame Athene Donald, Baroness Anne Jenkin, and Boni Sones OBE at Churchill College in 2024

The 2024 general election marked a historic milestone: a record 263 women were elected as MPs. Women make up 40% of all MPs sitting in the House of Commons. In the months leading up to this election, the founder of Women’s Parliamentary Radio, Boni Sones OBE, along with associates Jackie Ashley and Deborah McGurran, launched a new initiative: Groundbreakers. In partnership with the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge, their aim was to capture the voices and stories of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.

Join us at Churchill College for the culmination of this project: the screening of the documentary ‘Groundbreakers’, where some of the most influential women in Parliament share their stories about their personal and political journeys, in the early years of women’s representation in the House. The event will include a panel discussion with founder of Women’s Parliamentary Radio, Boni Sones OBE and associate Jackie Ashley in conversation with Anne Campbell (former Labour MP for Cambridge) and Baroness (Gillian) Shephard (former Conservative Minister) who were interviewed for the documentary. This event offers a unique opportunity to hear first hand stories and insights from leading female politicians from across the political spectrum as they reflect on their journeys, challenges, and greatest achievements in Westminster and beyond.

This event is part of the Cambridge Festival

You can find out more about the Groundbreakers project in our online exhibition and in this history of the project.

Roskill Lecture 2026: Dame Karen Pierce on ‘Do we still need the special relationship?'
2026-06-22 17:30 - 20:00 | Churchill College, Wolfson Foyer, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS
The 2026 Roskill Lecture, titled ‘Do we still need the special relationship?’, will be delivered by Dame Karen Pierce DCMG.

In this twenty-first Roskill Memorial Lecture, Dame Karen will be drawing on her experience within the UN and her time as Ambassador to the USA to talk about the special relationship with the USA.

Dame Karen Pierce DCMG

Dame Karen Pierce DCMG is currently serving as the UK Special Envoy for the Western Balkans, at SCS 4 (4 star equivalent). From 2020 to 2025 she was the British Ambassador to the United States of America and prior to that, from 2018, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, the first woman appointed in either role and only the second British Ambassador ever to hold both posts.
