Winston Churchill and family

Churchill Archive Centre looks after archives of Winston Churchill, his wife Clementine Churchill, their children (Randolph Churchill, Mary Soames and Sarah Churchill), and other extended family members including the 7th Duke of Marlborough. We also hold family photograph albums and press cuttings books, and other collections relating to Winston Churchill such as the Churchill Additional Collection. Highlights here include letters between Sarah Churchill and Clementine Churchill, letters from Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill, audio recordings of Winston Churchill dictating his book ‘The Second World War’, and Clementine Churchill’s photograph albums.
Letters from Sarah Churchill to Villiers David
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/4/10
Date:
1949-03-1951-09 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters and telegrams written from London, March 1949, June 1949, and February 1950, including a letter about the sale of some of her letters from her father Winston Churchill, 4 February 1950; and from the United States, September 1949-January 1950, October 1950, including letters about her marriage to Anthony Beauchamp and about the touring production of "A Philadelphia Story", November 1949-January 1950, and about living with Anthony Beauchamp in Los Angeles, 11 October 1950, and New York, 7 September 1951.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Villiers David
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/4/11
Date:
1952-01-1961-04 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters and a postcard written from the United States, January-April 1952, November 1952, and February 1953, including a letter from the White House, 16 January 1952; from London, July 1952, August 1953, and April 1961; and from Capri in Italy, July 1952.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill



Personal papers
Reference Code:
SCHL 2/1/3
Date:
1936-1947 (creation)
Description:
Comprising an application for a United States immigration visa, 31 May 1940, with an attached copy of her birth certificate, 7 October 1914 (issued 3 April 1936), an expired United States immigrant identity card, 12 June 1937, and an expired re-entry permit, 28 September 1937; an United States immigrant identity card, 31 May 1940; memorabilia of the Tehran and Yalta Conferences, 1943 and 1945; a copy of Winston Churchill's outline programme for his meeting with General Eisenhower, 23-25 March 1944; a guest list for a weekend at Chequers, 27-30 April 1945; a decree absolute of Sarah Churchill's divorce from Vic Oliver, 25 October 1945; and an order of service for the memorial service of John Gilbert Winant at St Paul's Cathedral in London, 19 November 1947.
With a visitors' book for Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, February 1941-June 1943; and an appeal on behalf of the Polish Relief Fund, undated.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill