50th anniversary closing celebrations in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh: 25 Jun 2014
Reference Code:
CCRF/112/6/12
Date:
2014-06 (creation)
Description:
Includes prints of photographs of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh; poster and pamphlet for "Remembering our genesis" exhibition from the college archive; correspondence; website news item and comments cards by visitors to exhibition.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Gillian Secrett
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/50/1
Date:
2017-02 (creation)
Description:
Includes: Progress on and aims of P Laycock’s book on grounds and gardens; John Moore and landscaping of area around Moller Centre; Jamie Buchanan’s original design, nautical theme and Henning Larsen; first impressions; representation of Maersk organisation; original planting and changes
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Visit by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/48
Date:
2014-06-25 (creation)
Description:
Digital photographs of a visit to Churchill College by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Phillip).
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Winston: academic year 1998-99
Reference Code:
CCRF/131/1/13
Date:
1998-1999 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Thomas Boden
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/71
Date:
2023-08-29 (creation)
Description:
Oral history interview, including attraction of role and first impressions; Twentieth Century Society and Churchill architecture; heritage appraisal; expansion of role and impact of Covid pandemic; training and development of staff; environmental sustainability; solar panel installations, accessibility audit and waste disposal; Churchill Road project; achievements.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


'What is War today?' symposium
Reference Code:
CCAR/911/40
Date:
2016-11-22-2016-11-23 (creation)
Description:
Includes a digital recording of the introduction to the two-day event and discussions held by the panellists as well as thank you letters, licences, programme and fliers.
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


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


Admissions video
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/8/3
Date:
2022 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Katie Heggs (History and Politics Undergraduate) about why she chose to apply to Churchill College and what she likes about the College.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


The Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/36/1/59/3
Date:
2022-10-27 (creation)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Finding Intelligence in the Churchill Archives
Reference Code:
CCPH/4/36/1/69
Date:
2023-04-28 (creation)
Description:
A recording of 'Finding Intelligence in the Churchill Archives', an event held at the Archives Centre on 28 April 2023.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Churchill Road redevelopment proposals
Reference Code:
CCPH/5/52
Date:
2022-11 (creation)
Description:
A recording of the various shortlisted propsals for the redevelopment of the Churchill Road (road running along the edge of the College site from front to back).
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Give Me Inspiration - Gillian Tett
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/19
Date:
2023-11 (creation)
Description:
A recording with Gillian Tett on 21 November 2023.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Wolfson Foyer exhibition
Reference Code:
CCPH/7/5/3
Date:
2015 (creation)
Description:
Photographs of the official opening of the permanent Wolfson Foyer exhibition in 2015.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Douglas Gough
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/74
Date:
2023-12-18 (creation)
Description:
Includes coming to Cambridge; scholarship exam; student life; supervising; working in the United States of America; founding of the Institute of Astronomy and Sir Fred Hoyle; Fellowship at Churchill; Tutor for Rooms and Finance; Moller Institute; the Churchill community; reflections.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Transcript of interview: Gillian Angrave
Reference Code:
DOHP 250
Date:
2025-2026 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/4
Date:
1927-06-13-1928-10-25, 1927-8 (creation)
Description:
Written by Ian Jacob about his and his wife Cecil Jacob's daily lives, including his work with 12th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, June 1927-; Ian Jacob playing cricket, rugby and hockey and Ian and Cecil Jacob playing tennis and golf, July 1927-; visits to the theatre, cinema and sporting events, July 1927-; domestic life at Woodbridge in Suffolk, July 1927-, and Farnborough in Hampshire, July 1927-June 1928; a military exercise near Didcot in Oxfordshire, August-September 1927; the theft of a suitcase from their car in London, October 1927; Ian Jacob fox cubbing and hunting, September 1927-March 1928, and riding in a point-to-point, April 1928; car maintenance, December 1927 and February 1928; heavy winter snowfall, December 1927; Ian Jacob's grandparents' diamond wedding anniversary in Cambridge, February 1928; a tour of the battlefields of Mons and Le Cateau in Belgium, March 1928; With theatre and sports programmes, a menu, press cuttings, and other printed ephemera. Also with press cuttings of stills from the film "Chang: a Drama of the Wilderness", about wildlife in Thailand, January 1928; and a black-and-white photograph of the competitors in the point-to-point, the Royal Engineers' Light-Weight Challenge Cup, April 1928.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob


Cecil and Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/33
Date:
1959-05-1972-02, 1959-60, 1972 (creation)
Description:
Comprising Cecil Jacob's diary of business trips with her husband, Ian Jacob, to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Rome, 29 May-1 June 1959, to Lisbon, 19-24 November 1959, and to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Geneva , 1-12 February 1960. Also including Ian Jacob's diary of a holiday in Spain and Morocco, 15 February-1 March 1972. With black-and-white and colour postcards and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob


Draft autobiography
Reference Code:
JACB 5/3
Date:
1970 (creation)
Description:
Typescript.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob


Diary
Reference Code:
TUCK 1/12
Date:
1948 (creation)
Description:
Written whilst in the United Kingdom, very few entries and mostly relating to family events.
Collection:
The Papers of Oswald Tuck


Diary
Reference Code:
TUCK 1/4
Date:
1905-01-1905-03 (creation)
Description:
Written during a year's shore leave in Japan.
Collection:
The Papers of Oswald Tuck


Letters from Clementine Churchill to Sarah Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/2/5
Date:
1960-1964 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, about a holiday with Winston Churchill, 14 January 1960 (1); from Chartwell, 2 May 1960 (1); from 28 Hyde Park Gate in London, 6 May 1960 (1); from Chartwell, enclosing a pamphlet about the Chartwell Trust, 1 July 1961 (1); from 28 Hyde Park Gate, mainly about Sarah Churchill's marriage to Henry Audley and her wedding gift of a painting by Jacques de Majorelle, November 1961-May 1963 (4); a letter from Chartwell, about the death of Henry Audley, 20 July 1963 (1); and from 28 Hyde Park Gate, partly about unveiling a bust of Winston Churchill at the British Embassy in Paris and lunch with Charles de Gaulle [President of France], January-October 1964 (2).
With telegrams from Winston and Clementine Churchill, January 1960-June 1964 (12); and a letter from Winston Churchill to Henry Audley, 4 April 1962.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Villiers David
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/4/9
Date:
1948-01-1948-07 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters and telegrams written from London, May-July 1948 and undated; and from Pinewood Studios, undated, including letters about Anthony Beauchamp and about Randolph Churchill and their plans for the celebration of their parents' 40th wedding anniversary.
With a press cutting from the News Review, about Winston Churchill's holiday in Marrakesh, Morocco, with Sarah Churchill and Villiers David among his party, 22 January 1948; a telegram from Winston Churchill to Villiers David, 3 May 1948; a telegram from Clementine Churchill to Villiers David, 13 July 1948; and "Lullaby", a poem by Sarah Churchill, undated.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Draft memoir
Reference Code:
RUSM 2/1
Description:
Titled "Inside View: recordings of a civil servant's work, 1925-1963".
Comprising two drafts of 53 pages, with manuscript annotations.
Collection:
The Papers of Enid Russell-Smith


Letters to her brother and sisters
Reference Code:
RUSM 1/17
Date:
1957 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Enid Russell-Smith