Transcript of interview: Lord Hurd of Westwell
Reference Code:
DOHP 90
Date:
2005 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir John Killick
Reference Code:
DOHP 69
Date:
2002 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Henry Hogger
Reference Code:
DOHP 173
Date:
2016 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Wynn Hugh-Jones
Reference Code:
DOHP 103
Date:
2005 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Peter Longworth
Reference Code:
DOHP 125
Date:
2006 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Denis Keefe
Reference Code:
DOHP 223
Date:
2023 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Brian Donaldson
Reference Code:
DOHP 106
Date:
2007 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: John Cloake
Reference Code:
DOHP 140
Date:
2013 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Edward Clay
Reference Code:
DOHP 206
Date:
2020 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Reference Code:
DOHP 142
Date:
2014 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: James Bowden
Reference Code:
DOHP 219
Date:
2022 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/16
Date:
1956-1957 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from 28 Hyde Park Gate in London, including a poem for her parents, undated, 29 July 1956 (2); from a theatre in Sacramento and from 8722 Shoreham Drive in Los Angeles, about appearing in the play "The King and I", September 1956 (2); from the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo and La Pausa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, about a holiday with her father Winston Churchill and about her financial situtation, February-May 1957 (6); and from Los Angeles, 18 December 1957 (1).
With a letter to her father Winston Churchill, about an exhibition of his paintings in the United States, 2 August 1957.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/3
Date:
1931-1932 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from the Ozanne sisters' finishing school at 4 Avenue Octave Gréard, in Paris, 4 October 1931-4 June 1932.
Including descriptions of French literature lessons with Pierre Clarac, 23 October 1931-4 June 1932, and a music lesson, 6 December 1931, and a concert given by Marcel Ciampi, 7 March 1932.
Also including a description of Christmas at Chartwell, 26 December 1931.
With a letter from Clementine Churchill to Marie Ozanne, about Sarah Churchill's plans to marry Vic Oliver, 28 November 1936, and a letter from Sarah Churchill to Marie Ozanne, about her life in the United States including her travels to Chicago, San Francisco and Beverly Hills, 29 August 1937.
Also with a later note to her sister, Mary Churchill, about the letters from Paris, undated.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Audio tape of Phyllis Willmott's interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1933-53
Reference Code:
YUNG 10/6/6
Date:
2001 (creation)
Description:
Side 1: Michael Young moving to London and living at Toynbee Hall in the East End; working at McKenna and Co, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst's firm of solicitors in the City, presided over by Fred Gwatkin; moving on his own to a rented flat in Bloomsbury; membership of the Holborn branch of the Labour Party and standing as a candidate for the Council in Holborn and St Pancras; moving in with his mother, Edith Young, in Bloomsbury; studying for the Bar at Gray's Inn; taking an evening course at the LSE and then switching to study Economics, Politics, Social History and Law full-time there; being elected Secretary of the LSE Students' Union; going to anti-Fascist demonstrations in London with his mother, Edith, during the Spanish Civil War; his first girlfriends; travelling around on his motorbike and visiting Dartington; his continuing relationship with Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst; qualifying as a barrister; working on a plan for wartime manpower policy for Max Nicholson at PEP (Political and Economic Planning); recruitment by Lord Perth to a Civil Service unit making preparations for wartime and the withdrawal of the offer because he had been identified by MI5 as a student Communist; joining PEP as a research officer instead; the post-war reconstruction group set up by Max Nicholson and their discussions of future plans for Europe. Duration; 47:04 minutes. Recorded on 29 May 2001.
Side 2: working at PEP on post-war reconstruction on the domestic front and how to pay for the war (pamphlet titled "Financial Mysticism"); meeting John Maynard Keynes to talk about the latter; his report on preparation for the emergency response to the bombing of London (pamphlet titled "London Under Bombing"); leaving PEP to work in a marine munitions factory in Swindon; joining the Home Guard and training with Tom Winteringham at Osterley Park; becoming the labour manager for the munitions factory, recruiting women workers, liaising with the trade unions, distributing the petrol ration, and progress chasing orders supplied to shipyards around the country; boarding with the Palphramand family in Swindon; meeting Joan Lawson, who later became his first wife; returning to PEP as director; moving to head the Labour Party Research Department at Transport House; the 1945 General Election campaign; Peter Willmott's letter about "Small Man, Big World", meeting each other, and recruiting him to the Research Department; the 1950 and 1951 General Elections; Michael Young's idea for a consumer advice service; his world tour to India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and a narrow escape from a plane crash; his lifelong friendship and working relationship with Peter and Phyllis Willmott; leaving the Research Department and spending time at the Tavistock Institute; starting a PhD on the extended family in Bethnal Green supervised by Richard Titmuss and based at Oxford House. Duration: 36:34 minutes. Recorded on 10 July 2001?
Collection:
The Papers of Michael Young


Soundscriber recording of a draft version of "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 7 "Air Parity Lost", pp 97, 99
Reference Code:
CHWL 6/5/24a side 1
Date:
1947-08 (creation)
Description:
Subjects include reaction to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin’s admission of the loss of air parity with Germany, including the poem "Death and his brother sleep". Note that there is no side 2.
Collection:
Chartwell Manuscripts


Soundscriber recording of a draft version of "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 17 "The Tragedy of Munich", pp 250-51
Reference Code:
CHWL 6/5/9a side 2
Date:
1947-08 (creation)
Description:
Subjects include Hitler and the German generals. Includes the sound of a dog barking and WSC saying "That dog must be silent."
Collection:
Chartwell Manuscripts


Give Me Inspiration - Chi Onwurah
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/13
Date:
2021-05-26 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Chi Onwurah
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Anna Young
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/51
Date:
2018-11-08 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Anna Young
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College



Photograph of Edwards with [Gregory Pincus]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/8
Date:
1966 (creation)
Description:
[At a conference on the Physiology of Human Reproduction, in Venice, 1966].
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Colour photographs taken [during clinical research at Oldham District and General Hospital]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/1/4
Date:
1968-1978 (creation)
Description:
Photographs show Patrick Steptoe and nurses [at Oldham] performing laparoscopy [extracting eggs]; medical equipment; [Edwards and Jean Purdy] looking at [eggs in culture fluid] under a microscope [and possibly fertilising the eggs with sperm]; and a nurse with a bird of prey.
Also includes a large print of a colour photograph of Steptoe performing a laparoscopy with a camera, and a [later] black and white print of the same photograph.
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards


Oral History: Doug Ashman
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/20/1
Date:
2012-11 (creation)
Description:
Includes: transcript and recording of interview with Doug Ashman, Head Groundsman, 1961-1999, on his experiences of working at Churchill College including recollections of Reverend Cain, Major General Jack Hamilton, working practices and equipment in the grounds and gardens department, moving the trees planted by Sir Winston Churchill, and the sports pitches. Also includes cartoons of Doug Ashman, notes for his retirement speech and photos of Doug's retirement and the Duke of Edinburgh arriving at the College.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: John Moore
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/29/1
Date:
2016-02-24 (creation)
Description:
Includes: arrival in Cambridge; Master's Garden (Boyd); initial tasks; Moller Centre planting; swimming pool; private road planting; courtyards; Sheppard Flats; Wolfson Flats; Graduate Houses; raised planted on main lawn; Madingley Road hedge and bank; office courtyard; Study Centre; Moller Centre extension; Donations - Dan Leighton; Michael Lewis; Frank Maine; Cowan Court; first landscape design; Master's garden (Wallace and Donald); tree planting ceremonies
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Dr Michael Rycroft
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/10
Date:
2017-02-24 (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: Dr Barrie Hesketh
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/15
Date:
2017 (creation)
Description:
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Childhood and School; Early visual awareness: emergence of key artistic interest in the visual field; Leaving home; Actor training, and emerging key area of interest: audience behaviour; Career as an actor; Birth of the Mull Little Theatre; First contact with Churchill College; First Visit to Churchill; Response to Churchill College architecture and design; College life as setting for creative enquiry into audience behaviour; Formal experiment in audience behaviour; Contribution to student theatre: directing The Insect Play, for The Gods; Connecting with Churchill's academic and wider community: walls and bridges; Sir William Hawthorne; C P Snow; Philippa Comber, first College Counsellor; Value of connection with College; The 'playhouse': play as experimentation, in arts and in sciences; Culture shocks: alcohol, sexism – and a way of being a critical friend to the College; Dyslexic in Academia; College life inspires new writing for the stage; Enacts unique improvised counselling session to inform College members about Counsellor's role
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College