Free lecture by Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London. British 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 […]
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 […]
A Churchill Archives Conference “Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and the world, but no one paid any attention.” In Fulton, Missouri on 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill gave an address entitled ‘The Sinews of Peace’, in which he warned of an ‘iron curtain’ descending across the […]
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 […]
Free event in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College. No need to book. The 2024 general election marked a historic milestone: a record 263 women were elected as MPs. Women make […]
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 […]
The author will be in conversation with Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. The Associated Press called the Royal Navy’s July 1940 attack on the French fleet “the strangest of all naval actions in the world’s history,” and said Winston Churchill’s ensuing speech to the House of Commons was “like no other ever […]