Churchill College

The Churchill College archive contains material from and about every aspect of life at Churchill College, including administrative, student life, photographic and some artefacts. Highlights here include video from long-running series held by the College, and Oral History interviews from various people associated with the College.

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Title (A-Z) Title (Z-A) Year (ascending) Year (descending) Reference Code (A-Z) Reference Code (Z-A)
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Miniature of BBC Interview with Canon Noel Duckworth on his experiences of the Oxford Cambridge Boat Races
BBC Interview with Canon Noel Duckworth on his experiences of the Oxford Cambridge Boat Races
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/15
Date:
1961-03-27 (creation)
Description:
Covers the races in 1934 -1936, when Duckworth coxed the Cambridge boat and the traditions of Oxbridge rowing.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral history: Graham Pledger, Deputy Head of Grounds and Gardens
Oral history: Graham Pledger, Deputy Head of Grounds and Gardens
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/16
Date:
2012-03-15 (creation)
Description:
Transcript and digital recording of interview with Graham Pledger, Deputy Head of Grounds & Gardens 1964-present. Includes: watching College being built; interview with Major-General Hamilton; getting grounds ready for opening of College; early work; colleagues and working conditions; relationship with students and Fellows; staff social club and staff outings; Canon Duckworth; Kapitza House; Alec Broers: Kenneth McQuillen; helicopter landing in field; anecdotes; Revd Cain.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral history: Sid Brown, Chief Maintenance Engineer
Oral history: Sid Brown, Chief Maintenance Engineer
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/17
Date:
2012 (creation)
Description:
Transcript and digital recording of interview with Sid Brown, Chief Maintenance Engineer 1962-1989. Includes: early days of the College; recruitment of maintenance staff; family atmosphere; recollections of Denys Armstrong; his job interview; Sir William Hawthorne; early staff; George Steiner; advised Robinson College when setting up College; introduction of bonus changed atmosphere; Major-General Hamilton; Sir John Cockcroft’s funeral; opening of Wolfson Hall. Includes some comments from Alan Lampard.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Alan Lampard
Oral History: Alan Lampard
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/18
Date:
2012-11-20 (creation)
Description:
Transcript and digital recording of interview with Alan Lampard, Boilerman 1966-2007 undertaken by James Adamcheski-Halson (Alumni Relations Manager) for staff magazine, Forward, on his experiences of working at Churchill College. Includes recollections of working on old boilers; how College changed over years; recollection of early staff; relationship with Fellows; Reverend Cain; becoming a mixed College.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Anne Hammerton
Oral History: Anne Hammerton
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/19
Date:
2012-09-2012-11 (creation)
Description:
Transcript and digital recording of interview with Anne Hammerton, Domestic & Conference Manager (1974-2001). Includes: Appointment to and remit of role; difficulty of getting en suite rooms into College; rise of conference business; anecdotes; changes; challenges; photograph of Anne Hammerton with her secretary, Christine Oliver (c1984); and explanatory email from Paula Halson on location of Anne Hammerton's office.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Doug Ashman
Oral History: Doug Ashman
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/20/1
Date:
2012-11 (creation)
Description:
Includes: transcript and recording of interview with Doug Ashman, Head Groundsman, 1961-1999, on his experiences of working at Churchill College including recollections of Reverend Cain, Major General Jack Hamilton, working practices and equipment in the grounds and gardens department, moving the trees planted by Sir Winston Churchill, and the sports pitches. Also includes cartoons of Doug Ashman, notes for his retirement speech and photos of Doug's retirement and the Duke of Edinburgh arriving at the College.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Doug Ashman
Oral History: Doug Ashman
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/20/2
Date:
2017-07 (creation)
Description:
Includes: previous employment: The Leys School, Cambridge University Rugby & Football Ground, Newnham College; Churchill in 1961; cricket square; Groundsmen’s Association; training; drainage; It’s a Knock Out!; Librarian; Staff Social Club; buttery pool; first computers in College; lime trees and Møller Centre; equipment; hostel gardens, oak and mulberry trees; Mentions: M Postgate; B Shorthouse; Major-General Hamilton; George Orr; Ralph Thoday; Lord Butler; Tom Hitchens; Graham Pledger; Albert Hayward; Tim the Gardener; Duke of Edinburgh; Hywel George; Peter Hunt; Mary Broers and dog; Albert Richmond; Anne Hammerton; Les Smith; Sid Brown
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of "Bill and Pat"
"Bill and Pat"
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/21
Date:
1985-10-19 (creation)
Description:
A recorded conversation between Correlli "Bill" Barnett and Pat (Ackerman?), discussing the requirements for an oral history project, including paperwork, external accessions, and copyright release.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Victor Brown, Conservator at Churchill Archives Centre
Oral History: Victor Brown, Conservator at Churchill Archives Centre
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/22
Date:
2014-03-19 (creation)
Description:
Recording and transcript of interview by Lesley Ackeroyd (former member of staff at Churchill Archives Centre) with Victor Brown. Includes: description of work at the Archives Centre and Victor's role; the Churchill papers and other collections; Edwin Welch, Michael Hoskin, Angela Raspin, Correlli Barnett; construction of the Archives Centre; the reading room; and VIP visits.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 1
Recording 1
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/1
Date:
2014-05 (creation)
Description:
Includes: tree planting ceremony; Peter’s early career; Joint Services Language Courses and teaching in Paris; Coming to Churchill; Sheppard Flats and early days; Women at Churchill; Official opening of College and Menu and the Dessert, First Course, Main Course. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 2
Recording 2
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/2
Date:
2014-06 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Mary Soames; Peter’s role at Churchill; Tutor for Advanced students; Assassination of President Kennedy; difficult moments with Students; Dick Tizard; Noel Duckworth; John Rawlinson; Francis Crick and the Chapel Controversy; Kenneth McQuillen; Sir John Cockcroft; Lady Cockcroft; Sir William Hawthorne; Sir Hermann Bondi; Lord Broers; Sir John Boyd; Sir David Wallace; Traditions and Hospitality of Churchill. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 3
Recording 3
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/3
Date:
2015-01 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Secrecy and confidentiality; wartime childhood in Paris; Liberation of Paris, radio during the Occupation; Learning English and London; Russian Lessons and appointment to JSLC; Meeting Peter and Peter’s first wife; Teaching for the JSLC; Michael Frayn; Sir Rodric Braithwaite; Getting married to Peter; interpreting and Pugwash Conference; Early days at Churchill; first members of staff inc. Pamela Tennant; Churchill and sense of belonging. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 4
Recording 4
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/4
Date:
2016-05 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Prof John Killen; Prof Anthony Kelly, his views on religion, later years and final days; Lord Todd; Sir John Colville; Dr Richard Hey; Captain Stephen Roskill, the College’s wine cellar, and setting up Churchill College; Paris Exhibition April-July 2015; Tree Planting ceremony 17 October 1959; Major-General and Mrs Hamilton. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 5
Recording 5
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/5
Date:
2016-09 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Tom Hitchens, Head Gardener 1963/68, and Albert Hayward, Gardener 1963/72. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Christine Bondi
Oral History: Christine Bondi
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/24
Date:
2014-10-06 (creation)
Description:
Includes: reaction to Mastership invitation from College; impact on her teaching; first visit to College and first impressions; living in College; entertaining students; swimming pool and grandchildren.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Correlli Barnett
Oral History: Correlli Barnett
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/25
Date:
2015-07-20 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Role of Keeper of the Archives; appointment of secretary and first administrative tasks; Archives Fellow Commonership; acquisition of Churchill Papers; Churchill family; Thatcher Papers and Ron Gerard; post-retirement role
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Correlli Barnett/Josephine Sykes
Oral History: Correlli Barnett/Josephine Sykes
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/26
Date:
2015-09-21 (creation)
Description:
Includes: First Colloquium (28/30 March 1994); Archives Fellow Commoners; Archivists; Conservator (Vic Brown); amusing anecdotes; Thatcher visit; Churchill Papers; Hailsham Papers; daily life in Archives Centre
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 1
Recording 1
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/1
Date:
2015-09-22 (creation)
Description:
Appointment as Bursar; early challenges inc. secretarial assistance for committees; appointment of Conference Manager; admission of women; financial pressures; opening of Archives Centre; centenary of the birth of Churchill; student representation; minuting of meetings.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 2
Recording 2
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/2
Date:
2015-10-01 (creation)
Description:
Harold Pettitt and first staff; College accounts; other College staff; development of conference business; student discos; bomb scare; Sergei Kapitza; Hugh Lubbock; Tamas Liptak; Bernard Walker; Maha Yamani
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 3
Recording 3
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/3
Date:
2015-11-19 (creation)
Description:
Mastership elections; the Chapel and the Chaplains; origins of the 'Churchill Prayer'; the Moller Centre, Carlsberg Foundation and first contact with Mr Moller.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Recording 4
Recording 4
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/4
Date:
2017-03-30 (creation)
Description:
Covers grounds and gardens: early impressions of site; siting of the College and proposed inner relief road; changes to the front of the College and planting of trees along Storey's Way; Storey's Way houses; admission of women and prickly hedges; private road, tennis courts and Dutch elm disease; changes to Sheila Haywood landscape masterplan; George Orr; William Mullins; unsuitability of site; extremes of weather; new buildings and memorials; daffodils in copse; Sir William Hawthorne's Golf Course; proposed swimming pool and lake; rabbits on mound and Victor Baffa; cricket square; Doug Ashman; Albert Richmond; Daphne Osborne; Edward Craig; Andrew Phillipson
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Michael Hoskin
Oral History: Michael Hoskin
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/28
Date:
2016-01-05 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Churchill Papers; Edwin Welch; other collections; Planning the building; opening of the Archives Centre; funding; handing over to successor; College life - postprandial talks & special menus; Stephen Roskill; Briji Gupta and William Mullins.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: John Moore
Oral History: John Moore
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/29/1
Date:
2016-02-24 (creation)
Description:
Includes: arrival in Cambridge; Master's Garden (Boyd); initial tasks; Moller Centre planting; swimming pool; private road planting; courtyards; Sheppard Flats; Wolfson Flats; Graduate Houses; raised planted on main lawn; Madingley Road hedge and bank; office courtyard; Study Centre; Moller Centre extension; Donations - Dan Leighton; Michael Lewis; Frank Maine; Cowan Court; first landscape design; Master's garden (Wallace and Donald); tree planting ceremonies
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: John Moore
Oral History: John Moore
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/29/2
Date:
2016-03-24 (creation)
Description:
Churchill Border and named plants
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
Miniature of Oral History: Peter Clarke
Oral History: Peter Clarke
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/1/1
Date:
2016-03-09 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College
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