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Oral History: John Moore
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/29/1
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Date : - 2016-02-24 (creation)
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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
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Dr Michael Rycroft
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/10
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Date : - 2017-02-24 (creation)
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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.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Dr Barrie Hesketh
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/15
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Date : - 2017 (creation)
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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
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Les Smith
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/34
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Date : - 2014-05-29 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: how he got the job; first colleagues; early tasks; briefly refers to Cockcroft funeral; Sir William Hawthorne and Major-General Hamilton; also Tom Hitchens and Albert Richmond; working hours.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Gordon Patterson
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/38
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Date : - 2016-09-28 (creation)
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Description : - Includes; Sheila Haywood Landscape Architect; Gardens of the Mughul India; First Impressions of Sheila Haywood's landscape master plan; Moller Theatre; Four-Square Garden; Private Road Planting; Master's Garden; Audit of the Existing Landscape 1996; Mulberry Tree; John Moore; Jamie Buchanan Landscape Architect; Vision for original planting;
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Cecily "Chips" Gemmell
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Reference Code : - CHOH 1/GMLL
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Date : - 1986 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Cecily Gemmell, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill (1947-51) and Clementine Churchill (1951-53).
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Collection : - Churchill Oral History
Sir John Martin
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Reference Code : - CHOH 1/MRTN
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Date : - 1986 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Sir John Martin, former Private Secretary (1940-41) and Principal Private Secretary (1941-45) to Winston Churchill.
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Collection : - Churchill Oral History
Soundscriber recording of a conversation about using the Soundscriber machine
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Reference Code : - CHWL 6/5/16 side 1
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Date : - 1947-08 (creation)
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Description : - Conversation between WSC and others including Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] and "Tommy" [? Commander Charles Thompson, former Personal Assistant to WSC], including the phrase "it’s a great lesson against megalomania".
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Collection : - Chartwell Manuscripts
Oral History: Dr Barry Shorthouse
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/30/8
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Date : - 2016-09-25 (creation)
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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.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral History: Michael Thouless
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/51
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Date : - 2017-10-17 (creation)
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Description : - Includes: Sir William Hawthorne and Magic; Admission to Churchill; Colin Campbell; Jack Miller; John Brunton and Cambridge supervisions; early memories and living in College; croquet lawns; impressions of being student at Churchill; Chapel and appointment of Bryan Spinks; College societies; return to Churchill as an Overseas Fellow; Professor David Thouless; setting Churchill traditions; High Table and wives; Superhall; reputation of the College and Admissions
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: Sir John Boyd
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/53
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Date : - 2018-06-22 (creation)
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Description : - Appointment to Mastership; Mastership interviewing process; The Fellowship, inc. Frank Hahn, Dick Tizard, and Boping Yuan; former Masters - Hawthorne, Bondi and Broers; Comparison with Embassy in Japan; Music, the ‘Hill’ colleges and the Colleges’ Committee; Modern Languages; Oriental Garden; the Master’s Lodge; Students; Relocation of office to Admin Corridor; Objectives as Master; Appointment of Director of the Moller Centre; Appointment of Vice-Chancellor; Visit of Speaker of the House of Commons (Betty Boothroyd); Workload; Student Disciplinary Appeals and Behaviour; Henry Moore; ‘Chaka’ and Akin Euba; Master’s Portrait; Vertical contact, integration and internationalism; Julia Boyd and her book ‘Travellers in the Third Reich’ (2017). Includes some references to staff members.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Recording 1
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/59/1
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Date : - 2021-03-23 (creation)
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Description : - Interview includes coming to Churchill College; early GODS; first directing role, teaching in English, and 'Pablo Naruda' (1973) play
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Oral history: interviews by Tamsin Palmer
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/9
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Description : - Cambridge Audio Tapes: Churchill College, Cambridge: one of a series of tapes produced by the American Friends of Cambridge University, consisting of interviews recorded and presented by Tamsin Palmer. Includes interviews with George Steiner, Frank Hahn, Archie Howie, Dick Tizard, Tony Hewish, Mike Gregory, Mark Tester, Alec Broers (Master), Michael Allen (Bursar), Colin Fraser (Senior Tutor), Piers Brendon (Keeper of the Archives), Bethan Chatters (UG), Charles Gubser (PG), Joanna Lewis (JRF) and Lynsey Marsh (alumna).
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
5th Roskill Memorial Lecture
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Reference Code : - CCRF/118/1/6
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Date : - 1993-02-03 (creation)
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Description : -
Given by Admiral Sir Julian Oswald, First Sea Lord.
Including correspondence with Admiral Sir Julian Oswald and with guests; an audio tape and transcript of the lecture; an invitation; a poster; press releases; a guest list; a table plan; thank you letters; and photographs.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
7th Roskill Memorial Lecture
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Reference Code : - CCRF/118/1/8
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Description : -
Given by Professor Paul Kennedy.
Including correspondence with Paul Kennedy and with some guests; 2 transcripts of the lecture; 3 audio tapes of the lecture; a menu; a ticket; a poster; a guest list; and contact sheets of photographs.
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Roy Astley Richards
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Reference Code : - CHOH 1/RRDS
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Date : - 1978-10-12 (creation)
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Description : - Talk 'Churchill the man' by Roy Astley Richards OBE, personal bodyguard to Sir Winston Churchill 1945-46, given at the River Thames Society, Marlow, in 1978, along with a copy of the notes for the speech.
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Collection : - Churchill Oral History
Seema Malhotra MP votes for Brexit Bill but puts down amendments, Eilidh Whiteford MP votes against the Alice in Wonderland Brexit Bill, and Julian Huppert on Brexit White Paper, Trade, Torture and #Humanrights
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/10
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Date : - 2017-01-26 (creation)
Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Rupa Huq MP, Baroness Susan Kramer; Heather Stewart, and Anushka Asthana of the Guardian; and campaigner Jamie Oliver on George Osborne's 2016 March Budget
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/4
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Date : - 2016-03-18 (creation)
Dennis Skinner MP, Tim Loughton MP, Andrew Bingham MP, Robert Halford MP, Heidi Allen MP, and WASPI women - WASPI campaign rally in Westminster
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/6
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Date : - 2016-06-29 (creation)
Labour's Daniel Zeichner wins Cambridge in 2017
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Reference Code : - SOBA 4/2/13
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Date : - 2017-06-08 (creation)
City Council’s Marketing and Press Officer; and City Council’s Electoral Services Manager
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/8
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Date : - 2015-5-5 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: On May 5th, two days before the General Election, the City Council’s Marketing and Press Officer, Ashley Perry stood in the press balcony at the Guildhall to talk about how he and his team would manage the night of the count and field press interviews: “It’s about helping the media tell the story of the Election count. Journalists know the rules of the game but that is not necessarily so for citizen’s bloggers and citizen’s journalists. “ Hot foot from talking to Ashley, and after the close of postal-vote registration and when the postal votes were being counted at the Guildhall Vicky Breading again talked to us about her final preparations for the Day of Voting May 7th:: “There is a special sweep of the letter boxes at 10 am on the 7th for the postal votes, we do advise people to send them back earlier, but they will get picked up on the day. We have to check signatures and dates of birth on the postal votes just to authenticate it all. Every single one is checked. We have about 100 people on the night to count the ballot papers.”
Returning Officer
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/6
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Date : - 2015-4-11 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: A long standing Returning Officer Rob Hammond, a former CEO of the City Council, spoke to us about his work on April 11th. Rob said he enjoyed the drama of the elections, “winners and losers”. He told us he had overseen four General Elections and that there was a very detailed process to work to: “You have to plan about a year ahead”. “If something goes wrong with it you are personally responsible.” He does foresee change in the future: “I am an enthusiast but it does need changing.”
City Council's Electoral Services Manager
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/1/2
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Date : - 2015-4-9 (creation)
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Description : - As described by the depositor: On April 9th at the close of nominations we visited Vicky again, as she read out the six candidates who had put themselves forward to be the next MP for Cambridge. Vicky explained the process for registration. Vicky said that those nominated needed the support of ten people to be accepted onto the candidates list. She went on to explain how odd ball candidates get onto the list, how people can spoil their voting papers, and how both crosses on papers and ticks will be accepted and much more.
City Council staff after the close of voter registration
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Reference Code : - SOBA 5/2/12
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Date : - 2015-4-21 (creation)
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Description : - Includes interview with Vicky Breading, City Council’ Electoral Services Manager, and her assistant, Emily Watts.