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.
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


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


Recording 2
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/59/2
Date:
2021-04-06 (creation)
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).
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


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


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


Recording 1
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/59/1
Date:
2021-03-23 (creation)
Description:
Interview includes coming to Churchill College; early GODS; first directing role, teaching in English, and 'Pablo Naruda' (1973) play
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Publicity literature for the Centre
Reference Code:
CCAC/190/2
Date:
1992-1993 (creation)
Description:
Including course charges 1993 and bookings forms.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Programmes, posters and ephemera
Reference Code:
CCRF/113
Date:
1962-2012 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Programme
Reference Code:
CCRF/111/1/1
Date:
1964 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Professor Alison Finch 'Thank You' dinner
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/8/6
Date:
2012-05-30 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Press release: Appointment of Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS to the Mastership of Churchill College
Reference Code:
CCRF/120/6/26
Date:
2013-09-26 (creation)
Description:
Includes text of press release and colour photograph showing Professor Donald next to Oscar Nemon bust of Winston Churchill on main staircase.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College



Presentation by Fort Hare visiting archivists
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/36/1/68
Date:
2023-06-21 (creation)
Description:
A presentation by two visiting archivists (Ayodele Ladokun and Ayabonga Meyi) from Fort Hare University on the collections at Fort Hare and their work.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Poster "Between the Devil and the Deep Sea"
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/36/1/38
Date:
2018-05 (creation)
Description:
A poster for a world premier reading of "Between the Devil and the Deep Sea", a play written by Lady Randolph Churchill.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Portrait of Sir David Wallace (unveiling)
Reference Code:
CCPH/3/5/8
Date:
2013-01 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of the unveiling of the portrait of Sir David Wallace.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Porters photographs
Reference Code:
CCPH/3/3/18
Date:
2023 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of the College porters and the Porters Lodge.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Pinchin Riley House
Reference Code:
CCPH/5/50
Date:
2018-08 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of Pinchin Riley House (graduate accommodation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos of student life taken by Mike Peskett
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/7
Date:
1963-1964 (creation)
Description:
Includes digital copies of student photographs of rowing crews on the river and outside the college, bumps races, views of Churchill College and the official opening of Churchill College by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos of student life taken by David De Rycke
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/6
Date:
1967-2009 (creation)
Description:
Includes digital copies of student photographs plus reminiscences about them of: parties and discos in the Pavilion; the Churchill 2nd Rugby team; playing hockey; rowing; Jeannie Search (later de Rycke) looking through Barbara Hepworth's "Four Square Walk Through"; Jack and Irene Search (De Rycke's prospective parents-in-law) at the front of college; David De Rycke with his girlfriend, later wife, at the 1969 May Ball "Elysium" plus recollections of lighting the ball; punting trips to Grantchester; and 'social' cricket. File includes printed copies of digital photographs plus prints of the emails recalling their context.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos of Churchill College, sculptures and student life
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/3
Date:
1990-2001 (creation)
Description:
Includes colour photographs of: the college buildings and grounds in all seasons (part 1); sculptures and works of art, mainly in the college grounds (part 2); and student life including study in the library and using computer workstations, supervisions (including one with Dr Findlay), graduation rehearsal in the Wolfson Hall with Dr Frank King and Peter Bullock (Head Porter), sports, and social activities including the students' summer party, floating rafts on the ponds at the front of college (part of fresher's week?), and socialising in college rooms (part 3). Also includes negatives.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by Thanyaporn Chankrajang
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/24
Date:
2009-2012 (creation)
Description:
Images of student life at Churchill college including: college buildings (including the entrance with 50th anniversary campaign banners) and grounds.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by Rebecca de Hoest
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/21
Date:
2012 (creation)
Description:
3 digital images showing balloons and the Hepworth, and an image of the college grounds in the snow.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by Paula Laycock
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/29
Date:
1980-2023 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs include:
Ross Anderson/Ian Douglas piping in the Haggis on 28 January 2023,
Mark Goldie about to chair a meeting of the Stats & Ords Committee on 7 February 2023,
John Moore in his office, opening the first copy of 'Portrait of a Landscape' on 21 January 2022,
Paula Laycock with Elena Godina (former Overseas Fellow, 1992) and her husband Vyacheslav Shestakov, 2017,
Anne Hammerton (Domestic and Conference Manager) with her secretary, Christine Oliver, 1980
Paula Laycock at work in the Registrar's Office, 1994
Paula Laycock in her office on the day of her retirement, 1 July 2014.
Printed photographs include College staff photographs (1994, 2000?) and photographs of social activities (late 1990s).
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by John White (U65)
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/19
Date:
1968 (creation)
Description:
Black and white photos showing brick sculpture and the installation of "Four Square Walk Through"
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by John Waters
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/25
Date:
1965-1966 (creation)
Description:
Scanned copies of colour slides showing: Barbara Hepworth statue "Square and Two Circles"; view of college (staircases 1-12); the opening of the Library block (Frank Cousins, Sir John Cockcroft, Lord Gardiner); a snowman with a sign "We want Moore" (registering a protest at the removal of a sculpture by Henry Moore); Library interior; Henry Moore sculpture ["Reclining Figure: External Form 1953-54"]; honorary degree ceremony at Senate House, Sir John Cockcroft and Lord Butler. Also includes information provided by John Waters about the images.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photos by Ji Jian Tang (Jimmy Tang)
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/23
Date:
2010-2013 (creation)
Description:
Images of student life at Churchill college including: college buildings (including the library, Archives Centre, Jock Colville Hall, central buildings, Music Centre, Møller Centre) and gardens, formal dining, matriculation and graduation, and a student room.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of three Christina Kelly Associates members
Reference Code:
CCPH/2/18/3
Date:
2024-01-12 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of three Christina Kelly Associates members (Judith Findlay, Margaret Whittaker, and the partner of Stuart Warren) taken at a meeting of the Associates.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College



Photographs of the Fellowship: Visiting Fellows
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/3
Date:
1993-2011 (creation)
Description:
Photographs of Visiting Fellows elected to Churchill College The albums are labelled as 1993-1999, 2000-2011, 2011-
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of the Fellowship: Overseas Fellows
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/2
Date:
1960-1994 (creation)
Description:
Photographs of Overseas Fellows elected to Churchill College The albums are labelled as 1960-1966, 1967-1970, 1970-1972, 1973-1976, 1976-1979, 1980-1985, 1987-1994.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of the Fellowship: Fellows
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/1
Date:
1960-2007 (creation)
Description:
Photo albums of Fellows elected at Churchill College The albums are labelled as 1960-1962, 1962-1967, 1967-1972, 1973-1979, 1980-, 1987-1989, 1990-1993, 1994-2006, 2007-.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of the Fellowship: Fellow Commoners, Honorary Fellows, Chaplain and Lectors
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/4
Date:
1960-1993 (creation)
Description:
Photographs of Fellow Commoners, Honorary Fellows, Chaplains and Lectors at Churchill College. Albums vary in content as follows: Honorary Fellows, Chaplain, Lectors, and Fellow Commoners 1960-1972 Honorary Fellows and Fellow Commoners 1972-1979 Fellow Commoners 1980-1993
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of presentation by staff to the outgoing Master, Prof Alec Broers
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/23
Date:
1996 (creation)
Description:
Featuring Doug Ashman, Head Groundsman, making speech; Gillian Dickinson, Housekeeper, presenting bouquet to Mary Broers; Anne Hammerton, Domestic and Conference Manager, presenting book of signatures to Alec Broers.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College



Photographs of Fellows of the College
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/31
Date:
1995-2007 (creation)
Description:
Index box containing cards with photographs of individual fellows. Information about each Fellow includes fellowship title, subject and first date of election. Arranged alphabetically with separate section for visiting fellows.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College



Photographs of College buildings
Reference Code:
CCPH/5/4
Date:
1961-1981 (creation)
Description:
Exteriors c. 1961. including panoramic shot of buildings, including Hall, 1969, taken by R S Maddever, Schoolmaster Fellow Commoner from Geelong Grammar School - used in an exhibition at Chartwell 1994).
Includes aerial shot of College site before building.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of Churchill College Chapel and sculptures in the college grounds
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/4
Date:
2005-2009 (creation)
Description:
Includes photographs of the chapel including exterior shots, the stained glass windows (designed by John Piper and made by Patrick Reyntiens), the cross and organ. Also photographs of sculptures Four Square Walk Through by Barbara Hepworth, Gemini by Denis Mitchell, Spiral by Michael Gillespie and Flight by Peter Lyon.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs of Canon Noel Duckworth
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/12
Date:
1969-1970 (creation)
Description:
Includes photographs showing Duckworth in the chapel at Churchill College (1969) and on the river bank coaching rowing crews (one image shows him holding his bicycle and the other using a megaphone). Printed copies of digital photos.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs by John Stark (U84)
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/28
Date:
1985 (creation)
Description:
Digital scans of original photographs of "Four-Square (Walk Through)" with a shopping trolley inserted in the top of the sculpture by students, as well as images of the 1985 matriculation photograph being taken and the entertainment that was happening behind the scenes as the official photo was being set up. Printed copies of the photographs are available.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs (black and white) by Nigel Birch
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/15
Date:
1962-1964 (creation)
Description:
Includes: two images of the 1964 opening ceremony, one showing the Duke of Edinburgh walking down the main staircase followed by Sir John and Lady Cockcroft and the other showing the Duke of Edinburgh talking to Richard Sheppard, architect, with Sir John Cockcroft behind; a still image from the film of the building of Churchill College and a photocopy of a photo showing equipment and film used in making the film.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs (b/w and colour) of college activities, taken by Mark Roulston (UG 1991-94)
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/1/2
Date:
1991-1994 (creation)
Description:
Including the following: Tony Swindlehurst (porter) during his 1500m ergo to raise money for children's heart research (colour). May 1993 BALLS: "Thunderball" (3 colour photos). 19.2.93. "Orient Express" (2 colour photos). 18.2.94. David Gedge, lead singer of "The Wedding Present", interviewed by Chris Parkes for CU Radio (b/w). 16.2.92. Moller Centre, just before official opening (b/w). Oct 1992 ROWING: "Smart Alec" (boat - b/w). May 1994 "Jim the Boatman" (b/w). May 1993 Men's IVth VIII after bumping (b/w - 2). June 1991 Steven Gallagher (catering manager) being interviewed for Winston (b/w). Nov 1993 JCR Committee, posed on Crampton's "Three Figures" (b/w). June 1992 CRONES captain Richard Hatherall after Churchill won the hare and hound relays (b/w). Feb 1993 Churchill v. Selwyn hockey match (b/w). Oct 1992 Churchill rugby team front row (b/w). Oct 1992 Chapel service (colour). May 1993 Ceri Sherlock directs while Florian Heine controls the lighting desk at a rehearsal of James Joyce's "Ithaca" chapter from Ulysses (colour). June 1993
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photographs
Reference Code:
CCPP/2/7
Date:
1990-1991 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photograph showing student walking past college building towards willow tree in sunlight
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/13
Date:
2010-03-18 (creation)
Description:
Described by the photographer "It sums up the happiness of the first warm sun beams in Lent."
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photograph of student holding a tennis racquet
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/11
Date:
1963-1969 (creation)
Description:
Digital copy of black and white photograph ?taken by Richard Triance.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photograph of student [?Baird Oldrey] shuffling pack of cards in the air.
Reference Code:
CCPH/10/10
Date:
1963-1969 (creation)
Description:
Digital copy of black and white photograph taken by Rob [?].
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photograph of Whittingehame Lodge, 44 Storey's Way, with related correspondence, 1992
Reference Code:
CCPH/5/15
Date:
1920-1992 (creation)
Description:
Information about the photograph from Professor J H Bennett, Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of Adelaide "I think that the man on the right looks like R C Punnett, who lived at Whittingehame Lodge for about 30 years whilst he was Professor of Genetics before Fisher was appointed to the chair in 1943. The other person on the right might perhaps be William Bateson. Bateson had been appointed to a Chair in Biology at Cambridge in 1908 but left in 1910 to become the first Director of the John Inness Horticultural Institute and then Punnett, who had been Bateson's colleague, was appointed to be the Chair in his place."
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Photograph of Mark Tully with Their Excellencies the High Commissioners of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Dr L M Singhvi and Dr A F M Yusuf
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/21
Date:
1995 (creation)
Description:
Taken after the 6th Roskill Memorial Lecture (22 Feb 1995), at which Mark Tully, former Chief of Bureau, BBC Delhi spoke on The Arms Trade and Political Instability in South Asia.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Pentland Churchill Design Competiton awards
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/36/1/18
Date:
2013-09 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of the award of the 2013 Pentland Churchill Design Competition with Boris Johnson
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Paula Halson's retirement
Reference Code:
CCPH/1/35/1
Date:
2014-06-14 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College