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.
CHUTalks - Douglas Boubert
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/35
Date:
2017-11-22 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Douglas Boubert
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Dame Sally Davies
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/2
Date:
2017-06-06 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Dame Sally Davies
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


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


CHUTalks - Nabila Idris
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/24
Date:
2017-03-22 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Nabila Idris
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Aditya Dhumuntarao
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/25
Date:
2017-03-16 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Aditya Dhumuntarao
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Tom Winder
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/27
Date:
2017-05-17 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Tom Winder
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Bridget Kendall
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/3
Date:
2017-11-24 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Bridget Kendall
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Alison Finch
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/46
Date:
2017-03-03-2017-06-15 (creation)
Description:
First interview includes early experiences as a woman Fellow; Sexism in Churchill; Assessment of Research carried out by Women; Move to Oxford and Sexism; Return to Churchill; Discrimination and the Pension Scheme; First impression of buildings, gardens and grounds; Sir William Hawthorne; Moller Centre; 25th Anniversary of the Admission of Women 1997; Appointment as Vice-Master; Editor of the Review; College Council and doing work for the College; Tension between academic role and College duties; Admission of Women and Egalitarianism Second interview includes admission of women and sexism.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Nathan Smith
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/29
Date:
2017-06-14 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Nathan Smith
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Dr Michael Rycroft
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/10
Date:
2017-02-24 (creation)
Description:
The interviews cover the following: early education; coming to Churchill; life in College; personalities; study and research; sports and social life; attitudes towards the College in the 1960s; College ethos; later careers.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Dr Barrie Hesketh
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/15
Date:
2017 (creation)
Description:
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Michael Thouless
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/51
Date:
2017-10-17 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Sir William Hawthorne and Magic; Admission to Churchill; Colin Campbell; Jack Miller; John Brunton and Cambridge supervisions; early memories and living in College; croquet lawns; impressions of being student at Churchill; Chapel and appointment of Bryan Spinks; College societies; return to Churchill as an Overseas Fellow; Professor David Thouless; setting Churchill traditions; High Table and wives; Superhall; reputation of the College and Admissions
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Clemens Buergel
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/30
Date:
2017-05-31 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Clemens Buergel
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Elsa Matthus
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/31
Date:
2017-10-25 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Elsa Matthus
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Jacqueline Siu
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/34
Date:
2017-12-20 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Jacqueline Siu
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Allen Packwood
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/32
Date:
2017-11-15 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Allen Packwood (Director of the Churchill Archives Centre)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Terry Ambrose
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/44
Date:
2017-04-21 (creation)
Description:
Includes: work on setting out and manufacture of the teak windows and progression to foreman; Canon Duckworth and first christenings; Wolfson and Sheppard Flats; working conditions on site, Alf Bailey and Lofty Parnell; access road, piling, the mound and general ground conditions; making the concrete beams; copper flashing; style of building; students (and women); Tom Hitchens; Sid Brown; minor incident; asbestos
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


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


CHUTalks - Karolis Misiunas
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/18
Date:
2017-01-25 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Karolis Misiunas
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Lachlan Lancaster
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/20
Date:
2017-02-08 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Lachlan Lancaster
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Professor Alice Roberts
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/1
Date:
2017-02-16 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Professor Alice Roberts
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Michael Allen
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/37
Date:
2016-08-16 (creation)
Description:
This interview focuses on the grounds and gardens. Includes: first impressions; the College's brief; Jamie Buchanan and the Moller Centre; landscaping at the front of the College; appointment of Consultant Landscape Architect; Gordon Patterson; Master's Lodge Garden; challenges; Albert Richmond; Doug Ashman; John Moore; Mulberry tree; managing the grounds and gardens department; women working in the department; new Masters and changes to the Master's Lodge garden; Sir John and Lady Boyd; Lord Broers; Recording the history of the gardens
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Katherine Banarse
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/43
Date:
2016-12-12 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Career change; Women's Farm & Garden Association; WRAGS Scheme; first impressions; Master's Garden; Winter Border; Herbaceous Border: Sir Winston Churchill Border; Xiaotian Fu Garden; reflections on career change
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Michael Westmore
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/47
Date:
2016-12-12 (creation)
Description:
Includes: arrival at Churchill and first impressions; training and appointment as Garden Supervisor; Madingley Road hedge 2011; Cowan court landscaping 2016; Moller Centre extension 2015; Orchid House 2015; Staff; thoughts about the site.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Alisha Kasam
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/14
Date:
2016-11-09 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Alisha Kasam
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College