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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Oral history: Sir John Boyd
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/53
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Date : - 2018-06-22 (creation)
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Description : - Appointment to Mastership; Mastership interviewing process; The Fellowship, inc. Frank Hahn, Dick Tizard, and Boping Yuan; former Masters - Hawthorne, Bondi and Broers; Comparison with Embassy in Japan; Music, the ‘Hill’ colleges and the Colleges’ Committee; Modern Languages; Oriental Garden; the Master’s Lodge; Students; Relocation of office to Admin Corridor; Objectives as Master; Appointment of Director of the Moller Centre; Appointment of Vice-Chancellor; Visit of Speaker of the House of Commons (Betty Boothroyd); Workload; Student Disciplinary Appeals and Behaviour; Henry Moore; ‘Chaka’ and Akin Euba; Master’s Portrait; Vertical contact, integration and internationalism; Julia Boyd and her book ‘Travellers in the Third Reich’ (2017). Includes some references to staff members.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Norman Villis
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/54
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Date : - 2018-08-09 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: The Churchill Oak; Apple Trees in front of Master’s Lodge; Churchill Mulberry; Metasequoia glyptostroboides; Student Gardeners; John Gilmour and the development of the University Botanic Garden; Bob Younger and the Rock Garden (Cambridge Botanics); Early Career; Change in Churchill landscape; Search for Geranium ‘Winston Churchill’.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Sir David Wallace
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/55
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Date : - 2019-03-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Appointment to Mastership; Entertaining Scottish-based Alumni; Master’s Lodge: privacy, Dining Room, Visitors’ Book, Lodge Kitchen & fire safety; First Term (MT06); Mary Soames, Tony Kelly and smoking ban; Master’s Private Garden; College Feasts, Dining in College, hospitality; Hanging Committee; Wine Committee; Daughter’s Wedding; Sheppard Flats; Chairing Meetings; Charity Status; Officers; Role of the Master; Interest in Gardening; Sir Winston Churchill Border; Frank Maine’s Orchid House; Metasequoia; Xiaotian Fu Garden; The Churchill Rose; Wildlife Corridor and Mushrooms
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Archie Howie
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/56
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Date : - 2019-06-26 (creation)
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Description : -
Includes: (At end) Prof Howie reading two of his poems: ‘The Biological Journeys of Richard Keynes’ and ‘Fine Cooking and Gluttony’. Also included: Appointment to Churchill and Junior Research Fellowships; Governing Body meetings, Admission to Fellowship and Founder Fellows; Sir John Cockcroft, Building and Visiting Fellowships; Death of the Founder; John Morrison; Appointment of Fellows; Major-General Hamilton; Chapel Controversy and John Killen; College Council; Committees set up to consider the Admission of Women; Appointment as Dean; Women at High Table; Ladies’ Evenings; Events for wives of Fellows; Sir Edward Bullard and Mastership Elections; Sir Hermann Bondi; Lord Broers; President of the SCR and the participation of Fellows; Special Events and ‘Howie’ Poems; Richard Hey;
Visiting Fellowship Scheme and First French Government Fellow; Denys Armstrong and the Building of the College.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Anny King
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/57
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Date : - 2019-06-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Becoming a Fellow; first impressions (people, architecture, gardens); interaction with committees and staff; role of staff in pastoral care of students; Higher Education Role Analysis (HERA); Moller Institute; Editorship of 'Churchill Review'; resignation from College Council; students and alcohol; College support during illness; nurturing students, the Tutorial Committee and mental health; language projects in College; French Government Fellowship; women in the Fellowship and in the University; conduct of Governing Body meetings.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Judith Rolfe
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/58
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Date : - 2019-06-07 (creation)
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Description : - Judith Rolfe (nee Harland), a newly-qualified architect, took up a position at Sheppard Robson and in c. 1962 worked on some of the detailed design drawings for the College. This is a recording of a walk around the College with Judith Rolfe and Professor Mark Goldie in 2019 and includes Mark's detailed commentary on the buildings and changes over the years. There are some references to Richard Sheppard and Bill Mullins under whose direction Judith worked.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 1
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/59/1
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Date : - 2021-03-23 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes coming to Churchill College; early GODS; first directing role, teaching in English, and 'Pablo Naruda' (1973) play
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 2
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/59/2
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Date : - 2021-04-06 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes: Dramatics at Churchill College; 'Pablo Naruda' (1973); Henry IV Part I (1975); 'The Resistable rise of Arturo Ui' (1974); performing 'The Trials of Brother Jero' in Nigeria (1976-7); Akin Euba's 'Chaka' (2000); Centre for Intercultural Musicology and 'Musical Mosaic' (2021); Visiting Fellowship scheme; undergraduate tutor (1994-2001); Tutor for Advanced Students [postgraduates] (2001-6); Churchill Fair (1973); draft Heritage Appraisal and Landscape (2000).
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Shelley Surtees
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/60
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Date : - 2021-06-02 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: interview and first impressions; challenges faced and implementing change; establishing a commercial operation; getting the engagement of staff and Fellows; improving service standards; working with the Moller Institute; setting up academic programmes in College; environmental initiatives; Moving Mountains [conference]; SCR Committee; Spring Ball; personalities and Professor Tony Kelly; legacy.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Natalie Adams
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/61
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Date : - 2021-11 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: coming to Churchill; first impressions; interacting with Archives Centre and more widely in College; working on the Churchill Papers; working in the Reading Room and diversity of collections; working on the College Archive; finding the Andrew Sinclair film about the building of the College; microfilming the Churchill Papers; Churchill Archive for Schools; colleagues and personalities; early Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust meetings; development of role; gaining Archives Accreditation; digitisation; Natasha Squire interviews.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Richard Partington
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/62
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Date : - 2021-07-06 (creation)
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Description : - Richard Partington was Senior Tutor, 2007-2021. The interview includes coming to Churchill College and interview process; first impressions; tutorial structure; conferences; master plan; widening participation; Baxter Tables and measuring success; greatest challenges; legacy; College's mission; and Dick Tizard.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Colin Myerscough
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/63
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Date : - 2022-04-05-2022-08-03 (creation)
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Description : - Recording 1 (April 2022) includes admissions interview; Sir Winston Churchill's 90th birthday; student events and Earl Haig Fund; University societies and journals; JCR committee membership and food survey; Kapitza House; Sir William Hawthorne; Dick Tizard, the Chapel and impact on admissions; visit of the US Ambassador, David Bruce, in 1967; admission of women; JCR meetings and incidents; Entertainment Consortium and sherry parties; Amalgamated Clubs and Boat Club accounts; Canon Duckworth; Novels (J M Collin). Recording 2 (August 2022) includes discussions of characters in his books and the inspiration drawn from people at Churchill College in the 1970s.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Rosemary Saunders
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/64
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Date : - 2022-09-23 (creation)
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Description : - Appointment as Master's PA; working with Sir John Boyd and Sir David Wallace; becoming Domestic Manager; working through the Coronavirus pandemic (2020-2022); commitment to current and former staff.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Audrey Canning
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/65
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Date : - 2022-11-02 (creation)
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Description : - Recollections of being one of the first few women at Churchill; background and coming to Churchill; living in College; first impressions; involvement in College activities; geographical position of College; contemporaries; student activities; career.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Margaret Williams
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/66
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Date : - 2022-11-22 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes: Coming to Churchill College and interview; office set-up, staff and equipment in the 1980s; working with Correlli Barnett; Lady Soames; leaving the College and former Archives Centre staff; World War II and Ambassador Phipps and Sir Philip Christison; the Churchill Papers; Roskill lectures.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Reverend Dr John Rawlinson
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/68
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Date : - 2023-03-06 (creation)
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Description : - Coming to Churchill and first impressions; music in the Chapel and the Inter Alios Choir; Sally Rawlinson; Sir John Boyd, Sir David Wallace, and Sir William Hawthorne; 50th anniversary of teh Chapel; Iona pilgrimages; special friends; the Chapel, its function, role and mission.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Piers Brendon
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/69
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Date : - 2023-04-10 (creation)
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Description : - Piers Brendon was Keeper of the Churchill Archives from 1995-2001. Includes: appointment and handover from previous Keeper; acquisition of the Churchill Papers, the expansion of the Centre and the appointment of new staff; the culture of the College; seeking new collections; relationship between the Archives Centre and the College; acquisition of the Thatcher Papers; funding and design of the new Thatcher wing; departure and proposals for development of role; future of the Archives Centre and fundraising.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Professor David Newbery
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/70
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Date : - 2023-06-08 (creation)
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Description : - Coming to Churchill College; committee membership; Mastership elections; admission of women; conferences and en suite accommodation; student participation on Council and changes to Governing Body; former Masters and Fellows; President of the SCR; staying in Cambridge.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Thomas Boden
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/71
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Date : - 2023-08-29 (creation)
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Description : - Oral history interview, including attraction of role and first impressions; Twentieth Century Society and Churchill architecture; heritage appraisal; expansion of role and impact of Covid pandemic; training and development of staff; environmental sustainability; solar panel installations, accessibility audit and waste disposal; Churchill Road project; achievements.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Patricia Ackerman
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/73
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Date : - 2023-12-15 (creation)
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Description : - An oral history recording and transcript, which includes appointment to role; working in the Archives in the 1970s; Michael Hoskin and Bill Barnett; collecting papers, particularly those of Paul Einzig, Martin Gilbert, Lord Hailsham, Sir Edward Spears, Duncan Sandys, and Casper Swinley; women at Churchill College; relationship between the College and the Archives Centre in the 1970s.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Douglas Gough
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/74
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Date : - 2023-12-18 (creation)
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Description : - Includes coming to Cambridge; scholarship exam; student life; supervising; working in the United States of America; founding of the Institute of Astronomy and Sir Fred Hoyle; Fellowship at Churchill; Tutor for Rooms and Finance; Moller Institute; the Churchill community; reflections.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Victor Brown
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/75
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Date : - 2024-01-29 (creation)
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Description : - Recording and transcript of interview by Paula Laycock with Victor Brown. Includes: Conservation work and early experience/training; setting up the conservation workshop; VIP visits; special treatments and collections; early Archives staff, Edwin Welch and Dr Hoskin; Lord Hailsham's papers.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Professor Dame Athene Donald
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/76
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Date : - 2024-01-31 (creation)
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Description : - Includes appointment to the Mastership; Admission and chairing meetings; Master's Lodge and privacy; impact of Mastership on personal and professional life; the Covid-19 pandemic; Moller Institute; Development and Fundraising; Challenges; Looking ahead.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Edith George and daughters, Carol, Frances, and Tamara
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/77
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Date : - 2024-05-24 (creation)
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Description : - An oral history recording with Hywel George's widow, Edith and their daughters, Carol, Tamara and Frances, which was recorded shortly after Hywel's death. Hywel andEdith lived with their daughters at 70 Storey's Way from 1971 until Hywel retired as Bursar in 1991. This recording captures some of their reminiscences about Hywel's life in College during this period, and of living in the house.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Matthew Donald
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/78
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Date : - 2024-09-25 (creation)
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Description : - This is one of a series of recordings with Master's spouses. Includes: first impressions; living and working in the Master's Lodge; supervising; the pandemic; College events; dinners, talks, postprandials and Burns' Night; MCR Conference on Everything; mentoring; Churchill Scholars; Churchill staff.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College