Churchill Archives Centre
Where the modern history of Britain is open to all
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The Churchill Archives Centre is a world-leading collection of 20th Century history.
“Where the modern history of Britain is open to all”
The Archives Centre began by collecting the papers of Winston Churchill and other contemporaries and has grown to become an important resource for the study of modern history from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Our collections encompass the personal papers of individuals who made and remade British domestic politics and international relations, advanced scientific knowledge, and who observed or transformed society, economics and culture. These materials record key events and trends in the history of Britain and beyond. The Centre continues to collect.
The Archives Centre has been awarded Accreditation by The National Archives and the Churchill Papers have been entered on the UNESCO International Register of the Memory of the World.
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All together now: World Digital Preservation Day 2023
The theme for this year’s World Digital Preservation Day is ‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’, and so I’m using this opportunity to highlight a couple of pieces of work from […]
Treasure Hunting Part 2: Sir Alexander Cadogan as Curmudgeonly Ballet Superfan
This blog was written by Dr Victoria Thoms, Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) Coventry University Part 1: Confessions of a Dance Scholar What is a dance […]
Treasure Hunting at the Churchill Archives Centre
This blog was written by Dr Victoria Thoms, Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) Coventry University Part 1: Confessions of a Dance Scholar What is a dance […]
Celebrating 50 years of Preservation and Access at the Churchill Archives Centre
The Churchill Archives Centre opened to the fanfare of trumpeters on 26 July 1973. Fifty years on, it hosted a two-day conference which reflected on its past, highlighted the breadth […]
Arnold Hills, the Chairman of Thames Iron Works, the last shipbuilder on the Thames
One of our occasional series of guest blogs from our researchers. It seems paradoxical that in 1912, in the heat of the Dreadnought arms race, one of the few firms […]