Oral history: Lady Mary Soames
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/11
Date:
2003-06-09 (creation)
Description:
Tape and summary transcript of interview with Lady Soames (the daughter of Winston Churchill), conducted by Dr Mark Goldie
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Sir David Wallace
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/55
Date:
2019-03-18 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Appointment to Mastership; Entertaining Scottish-based Alumni; Master’s Lodge: privacy, Dining Room, Visitors’ Book, Lodge Kitchen & fire safety; First Term (MT06); Mary Soames, Tony Kelly and smoking ban; Master’s Private Garden; College Feasts, Dining in College, hospitality; Hanging Committee; Wine Committee; Daughter’s Wedding; Sheppard Flats; Chairing Meetings; Charity Status; Officers; Role of the Master; Interest in Gardening; Sir Winston Churchill Border; Frank Maine’s Orchid House; Metasequoia; Xiaotian Fu Garden; The Churchill Rose; Wildlife Corridor and Mushrooms
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Alisha Kasam
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/14
Date:
2016-11-09 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Alisha Kasam
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Matthew
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/15
Date:
2016-11-15 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Matthew
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Ali Jones
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/17
Date:
2017-01-11 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Ali Jones
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Christopher Bryant
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/33
Date:
2017-11-02 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Christopher Bryant
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Professor Hannah Fry
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/16
Date:
2022-02-02 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Professor Hannah Fry
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Martha Lane Fox
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/5
Date:
2018-05-09 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Martha Lane Fox
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: 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


CHUTalks - Nathan Smith
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/29
Date:
2017-06-14 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Nathan Smith
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Anantha Kumar
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/45
Date:
2018-06-06 (other)
Description:
CHUTalks
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Angela Saini
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/15
Date:
2020-02-13 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Angela Saini
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College