Thursday: The Cambridge European Elections and Vox Pops
Reference Code:
SOBA 2/6
Date:
2019-05-27 (creation)
Description:
The event is being recorded live from St Mary's Church for the Election Hustings - candidates include the Brexit Party (Edmund Fordham), Change UK (Neil Carmichael), Greens (Catherine Rowett), Labour (Alvin Shum), Conservatives (Tom McLeren), Liberal Democrats (Lucy Nethsingha) and UKIP (Stuart Agnew). Each candidate talks through why they should be the choice for Cambridge. Sones then speaks to some attendees after the event.
Collection:
Women’s Parliamentary Radio publications and podcasts, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother








Doreen Pugh
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/DPGH
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Doreen Pugh, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill (1955-65).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Elizabeth Gilliatt
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/GLTT
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Elizabeth Gilliatt, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill, (1945-55).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Kathleen Hill
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/KHLL
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with [Rose] Kathleen Hill, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill, (1937-45).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


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: Christine Bondi
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/24
Date:
2014-10-06 (creation)
Description:
Includes: reaction to Mastership invitation from College; impact on her teaching; first visit to College and first impressions; living in College; entertaining students; swimming pool and grandchildren.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Recording 1
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/1
Date:
2015-09-22 (creation)
Description:
Appointment as Bursar; early challenges inc. secretarial assistance for committees; appointment of Conference Manager; admission of women; financial pressures; opening of Archives Centre; centenary of the birth of Churchill; student representation; minuting of meetings.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Recording 2
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/27/2
Date:
2015-10-01 (creation)
Description:
Harold Pettitt and first staff; College accounts; other College staff; development of conference business; student discos; bomb scare; Sergei Kapitza; Hugh Lubbock; Tamas Liptak; Bernard Walker; Maha Yamani
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: John Moore
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/29/2
Date:
2016-03-24 (creation)
Description:
Churchill Border and named plants
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Harold Pettit
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/3
Date:
1985 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Harold Pettit, 1st chief clerk, made as part of oral history project undertaken by Patricia Ackerman in 1985 for the Churchill Archives Centre. 1 copy tape (plus 1 master), with written summary of interview
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Martin Hayden
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/33
Date:
2012-11-26 (creation)
Description:
Includes: early days; first kitchen at top of College; pastry department; staff; events; health & safety; Masters; Major-General Hamilton; Hywel George, Michael Allen; Professor Matthew Kramer; Buckingham Palace Garden Party.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Alison Walker
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/4
Date:
1985 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Alison Walker, 1st secretary to the Tutors for Advanced Students, made as part of oral history project undertaken by Patricia Ackerman in 1985 for the Churchill Archives Centre. 1 copy tape (plus 1 master), with written summary of interview
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


Recording 2
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/2
Date:
2014-06 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Mary Soames; Peter’s role at Churchill; Tutor for Advanced students; Assassination of President Kennedy; difficult moments with Students; Dick Tizard; Noel Duckworth; John Rawlinson; Francis Crick and the Chapel Controversy; Kenneth McQuillen; Sir John Cockcroft; Lady Cockcroft; Sir William Hawthorne; Sir Hermann Bondi; Lord Broers; Sir John Boyd; Sir David Wallace; Traditions and Hospitality of Churchill. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Recording 4
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/23/4
Date:
2016-05 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Prof John Killen; Prof Anthony Kelly, his views on religion, later years and final days; Lord Todd; Sir John Colville; Dr Richard Hey; Captain Stephen Roskill, the College’s wine cellar, and setting up Churchill College; Paris Exhibition April-July 2015; Tree Planting ceremony 17 October 1959; Major-General and Mrs Hamilton. Audio recording and transcript.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Hugh Davies
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/19
Date:
2021-10-26 (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: 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


10th Roskill Memorial Lecture
Reference Code:
CCRF/118/1/11
Date:
2003-02-25 (creation)
Description:
Given by Bridget Kendall, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent.
Including correspondence with Bridget Kendall and with guests; a transcript of the lecture; 2 audio tapes of the lecture; a menu; a press release; a poster; a guest list; a table plan; a programme; and photographs (including a CD of photographs).
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Interview with Dominic Abrams
Reference Code:
ABMS 7/1/2
Date:
1984-09-19, 1984 (creation)
Description:
Recorded interview between Mark Abrams and his grandson Dominic Abrams at 48 St. Martin's Lane, London, 19 September 1984.
Collection:
The Papers of Mark Abrams