Oral history: Victor Brown

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/75

Date:

2024-01-29 (creation)

Description:

Recording and transcript of interview by Paula Laycock with Victor Brown. Includes: Conservation work and early experience/training; setting up the conservation workshop; VIP visits; special treatments and collections; early Archives staff, Edwin Welch and Dr Hoskin; Lord Hailsham's papers.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Professor Dame Athene Donald

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/76

Date:

2024-01-31 (creation)

Description:

Includes appointment to the Mastership; Admission and chairing meetings; Master's Lodge and privacy; impact of Mastership on personal and professional life; the Covid-19 pandemic; Moller Institute; Development and Fundraising; Challenges; Looking ahead.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Edith George and daughters, Carol, Frances, and Tamara

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/77

Date:

2024-05-24 (creation)

Description:

An oral history recording with Hywel George's widow, Edith and their daughters, Carol, Tamara and Frances, which was recorded shortly after Hywel's death. Hywel andEdith lived with their daughters at 70 Storey's Way from 1971 until Hywel retired as Bursar in 1991. This recording captures some of their reminiscences about Hywel's life in College during this period, and of living in the house.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Matthew Donald

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/78

Date:

2024-09-25 (creation)

Description:

This is one of a series of recordings with Master's spouses. Includes: first impressions; living and working in the Master's Lodge; supervising; the pandemic; College events; dinners, talks, postprandials and Burns' Night; MCR Conference on Everything; mentoring; Churchill Scholars; Churchill staff.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Colin Fraser (interview 1)

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/79/1

Date:

2024-09-27 (creation)

Description:

This recording focuses on Colin Fraser's first period on the Hanging Committee in the 1980s, and also on the circumstances leading to his appointment as Senior Tutor in 1995. Includes: Peter Lyon; the appointment of Dhruva Mistry as Artist By-Fellow and acquisition of sculpture; the Churchill College Art Foundation; and the Scientific Drawings Collection.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Oral history: Colin Fraser (interview 2)

Reference Code:

CCRF/141/79/2

Date:

2024-11-06 (creation)

Description:

This recording covers the period of Colin Fraser's Senior Tutorship (1995-2000); addressing academic results; academic standards; the Baxter Tables and student attitudes. Includes reflections on the Hanging Committee in the 2000s, and the Anthony Caro and Jeppe Hein sculptures.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

"Churchill College: June 1962-May 1964"

Reference Code:

CCRF/151/21

Date:

1962-06-1964-05 (creation)

Description:

Black and white film documenting the construction of Churchill College. Credit sequence reads "Sound: Paul Barton, Titles: Martyn Stroud, Producers: Nigel Birch, Andrew Bird". The film was directed by Dr Andrew Sinclair and the narrator was Andrew Bird, reading from his own script.

Scenes in the film show: plans of the college; a cricket match; the building site, cranes, and workers' compound; building in progress and rubbish and mud on site; piles of building materials including bricks piled with straw between them to protect against breakages; scaffolding; the workers' routine leaving the site at the end of the day, some in a Rattee and Kett bus, and arriving in the morning; social life in the college including playing croquet, the common room, temporary kitchen and meals in the temporary dining hall; details of construction work including brick laying, copper lining on exteriors, and construction of main staircase from concrete; the arrival of undergraduates; decoration and fitting out of the interior of the college including plastering, laying timber floors, tiling and painting; undergraduate activities including socialising, academic supervisions, sport; a college garden party with Sir John Cockcroft, Richard Sheppard, Andrew Sinclair, John Morrison, George Steiner and Denys Armstrong; and finally the completed building and tree planted by Sir Winston Churchill.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College

Film of student life at Churchill College

Reference Code:

CCRF/151/22

Date:

1961-1964 (creation)

Description:

Includes films taken using a cine camera showing: Rag Day 1961; visit by David King's parents; rowing including Fairbairns 1962, training in 1963, and May Bumps 1963; Canon Noel Duckworth at a football match (shows Sir John Cockcroft in the background); punting. Also includes a section "around college in 1964" showing students Chris Cant (wearing green sweater), Mike Peskett. David King is the student in his room when Chris calls on him. Also includes copy of an email from David King with further information about the film.

Collection:

Official Archive of Churchill College