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Entrance to The Churchill Archives Centre

Churchill Archives Centre shares digitised treasures to celebrate 50 years

25 Jul 2023

Letters sent to Winston Churchill by his wife are among an array of fascinating historic papers and recordings which can now be explored via the...

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How Churchill Waged War

21 Nov 2018

A newly-published book by Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during...

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Churchill Papers added to UNESCO’s list of the world’s greatest cultural treasures

30 Nov 2015

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches, letters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s...

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Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill Archives Centre celebrates 40th year with UNESCO award

09 Jul 2013

The Cambridge archives which hold the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Thatcher is celebrating the inclusion of its core collection on the UK...

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Pitt-Rivers' own photo of Hitler from the Nuremberg Rally

Forgotten archive shines new light on turbulent 1930s

19 May 2011

Previously unseen photos of Adolf Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally of 1937 have been uncovered by a Cambridge PhD student in the archive of George Henry...

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Uncovered: The “lost” paper Churchill kept from publication

08 Mar 2007

An article that Winston Churchill wrote but then banned from publication because of its “perverse” messages about the persecution of Jews has been...

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Winston Churchill

Churchill borrowed some of his biggest ideas from HG Wells

27 Nov 2006

Winston Churchill was a “closet science-fiction fan” who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from H. G. Wells, a Cambridge...

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