Recorded talks from a two-day conference to mark the Archives Centre’s 50th anniversary, now available online.
Photograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 1, The Past: Origins and Early Years of the Archives Centre
Welcome remarks by Professor Dame Athene Donald, Master of Churchill and Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre; Keynote by Professor Mark Goldie; Panel: Mrs. Patricia Ackerman, Dr. Piers Brendon, Professor Jon T. Sumida (online) and Mrs. Margaret Williams Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 1, Research Revisited: Archives By-Fellows Panel 1
Professor James Muller – ‘Opening the “Magic Casements of the Mind”: Learning about Churchill in the Churchill Archives Centre’; Professor Gaynor Johnson – ‘Our man in Berlin: Learning about diplomacy in the Churchill Archives Centre’; Dr Graham Farmelo – ‘From Churchill’s Bomb to Hawking Radiation’ Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 1, 'Archives of Possibility' and 'Different Perspectives'
Dr Alix Green – ‘Archives of possibility: collaborative approaches to the history of work for the present’. Panel: 'Different Perspectives: New Research and Varied Audiences', Chair: Dr Lise Butler, with Professor Myriam Boussahba Bravard, Professor Lawrence Black and Dr Jackie Uí Chionna Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 1, Research Revisited: Archives By-Fellows Panel 2
Chair: Lord Boateng. Panel: Dr Emma Barrett – ‘Survival Capitalism and the Big Bang’; Dr Thomas Kelsey -'An economic liberalism from within: the work of Sir Richard Clarke'; Dr Stephen Kelly – ‘Margaret Thatcher, Anglo-Irish relations and Northern Ireland’; Dr Tom Hurst – ‘One of Margaret Thatcher’s most important advisers? The role of John Hoskyns’ Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 1, Keynote: The Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture Revisited
Chair: Professor David Reynolds. Panel: Professor Paul Kennedy, Professor Margaret MacMillan and Mr. Jonathan Fenby Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 2, Research Revisited: Archives By-Fellows Panel 3
Chair: Dr Pieter van Houten. Panel: Dr Jayne Gifford - ‘A Window on the World: Blanche Lloyd and the recording of Empire’; Dr Lyndsey Jenkins - '’Unmarried housewives' and 'deviant women': perspectives on gender and the Labour Party in the 1950s and 1960s from the papers of Mark Abrams'; Dr Claire Knight – ‘Cinematic Ambassadors: the wartime film exchange between Britain and the USSR, 1941-45’ Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 2, Cherish Watton and 'Different Perspectives', the BDOHP
Cherish Watton, ‘Generational histories of aristocratic scrapbooking in the Esher family, c.1890-1940’; Different Perspectives, The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme: Professor Patrick Salmon and Lady Wright in conversation with Baron McDonald of Salford, former PUS at the FCDO, Master of Christ’s College and Alison Rose, former Ambassador to Belgium 2014-2019, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
Day 2, The Future: The Challenges Facing Archives
Chair: Dr Jessica Gardner. Panel: Dr Jessamy Carlson, Dr Mari Takayanagi and Chris Woods (online) Watch the videoPhotograph taken from the stairs of the Jock Colville Hall, showing the reception held after the Archives Centre 50th anniversary conference, Sept 2023
