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

Oral history: Shelley Surtees

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/60

Date:

2021-06-02 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Natalie Adams

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/61

Date:

2021-11 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Richard Partington

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/62

Date:

2021-07-06 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Colin Myerscough

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/63

Date:

2022-04-05-2022-08-03 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Rosemary Saunders

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/64

Date:

2022-09-23 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Audrey Canning

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/65

Date:

2022-11-02 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Margaret Williams

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/66

Date:

2022-11-22 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Reverend Dr John Rawlinson

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/68

Date:

2023-03-06 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Piers Brendon

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/69

Date:

2023-04-10 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Professor David Newbery

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/70

Date:

2023-06-08 (creation)

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.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Joan Bullock-Anderson memories

Reference Code:

CCRF/151/58

Date:

2023-07 (creation)

Description:

The memories of Joan Bullock-Anderson, the first College Archivist at Churchill College. Memories include her work, colleagues in College and the Archives Centre, Directorship interviews, and work in other Cambridge archives.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

18th Roskill Memorial Lecture

Reference Code:

CCRF/118/1/19

Date:

2020 (creation)

Description:

Given by Professor David Reynolds, 'Yalta at 75: The Summit and its legacies 1945-2020'. Includes invitiation list and seating plan and audio-visual recording.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College