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

Oral History: Xiaotian Fu

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/48

Date:

2017-10-05 (creation)

Description:

Includes: First impressions; community; Japanese (Oriental-themed) garden in Master's Lodge; gift to the College; the importance of gardens; the stones - 'Reading Gal' and 'The Screen'; first impressions of structure of new Xiaotian Fu Garden; hopes and aspirations for the garden.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral History: Mark Haywood

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/49

Date:

2018-01-17 (creation)

Description:

Includes: 35 Hampstead Lane; Haywood family; Dick Sheppard; Olga Périon; Divorce; 65 Hillgate Place; Notting Hill Gate; Beltane School; Bracknell New Town; other Haywood Projects; Burglary; Gardens of the Mughal; art collection; Working in a man’s world; John Haywood’s other wives; Weddings 1960 and 1961; 70th Birthday Party; Later years; Bill Mullins; Africa

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

Oral history: Marcial Echenique

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/52

Date:

2018-06-08 (creation)

Description:

Includes: First impressions; attraction of buildings to architecture students; College policy on buying houses along Storey’s Way; Projects designed by Marcial Echenique; Buttery Extension; Appointment of College Architect; Extension to Fellows’ Corridor; Study Centre/Music Rooms Extension; Moller Centre, first Development Director and Moller designs; Henning Larsen; Archives Centre Extension; Postgraduate Village; Cowan Court; Changes and the Buildings/Estates Committee; Dick Tizard; Bill Mullins, Richard Sheppard; growing importance of Service Road and plans for future; Maintaining integrity of design and adapting to new requirements

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Sir John Boyd

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/53

Date:

2018-06-22 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Norman Villis

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/54

Date:

2018-08-09 (creation)

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’.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Sir David Wallace

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/55

Date:

2019-03-18 (creation)

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

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Archie Howie

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/56

Date:

2019-06-26 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Anny King

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/57

Date:

2019-06-18 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Judith Rolfe

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/58

Date:

2019-06-07 (creation)

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.

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

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