Oral history: Piers Brendon
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/69
Date:
2023-04-10 (creation)
Description:
Piers Brendon was Keeper of the Churchill Archives from 1995-2001. Includes: appointment and handover from previous Keeper; acquisition of the Churchill Papers, the expansion of the Centre and the appointment of new staff; the culture of the College; seeking new collections; relationship between the Archives Centre and the College; acquisition of the Thatcher Papers; funding and design of the new Thatcher wing; departure and proposals for development of role; future of the Archives Centre and fundraising.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Sir John Peck
Reference Code:
CHOH 2/PECK
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Synopsis of interview with Sir John Peck
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Grace Hamblin
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/HMBL
Date:
1985 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Grace Hamblin, former assistant secretary to Winston Churchill, (1932-38), secretary to Clementine Churchill (1939-45), secretary and administrator at Chartwell [Kent] (1945-65).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Sir Anthony Montague Browne
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/MGBN
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Sir Anthony Montague Browne, former Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, later seconded to the Foreign Office (1955-65).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Alexander Cadogan diaries
Description:
The diaries of Alexander Cadogan , a diplomat who attended major inter-allied conferences and Cabinet meetings during the Second World War, covering the period 1936-1941 and 1945.


Personal papers
Reference Code:
SCHL 2/1/3
Date:
1936-1947 (creation)
Description:
Comprising an application for a United States immigration visa, 31 May 1940, with an attached copy of her birth certificate, 7 October 1914 (issued 3 April 1936), an expired United States immigrant identity card, 12 June 1937, and an expired re-entry permit, 28 September 1937; an United States immigrant identity card, 31 May 1940; memorabilia of the Tehran and Yalta Conferences, 1943 and 1945; a copy of Winston Churchill's outline programme for his meeting with General Eisenhower, 23-25 March 1944; a guest list for a weekend at Chequers, 27-30 April 1945; a decree absolute of Sarah Churchill's divorce from Vic Oliver, 25 October 1945; and an order of service for the memorial service of John Gilbert Winant at St Paul's Cathedral in London, 19 November 1947.
With a visitors' book for Eythrope in Buckinghamshire, February 1941-June 1943; and an appeal on behalf of the Polish Relief Fund, undated.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/1
Date:
1921-1926 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from the family homes at 2 Sussex Square and 11 Downing Street, in London, and Chartwell, in Kent; and during holidays at Broadstairs and Westgate-on-Sea, in Kent.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarh Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/11
Date:
1947 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from Rome, 10 March 1947 (1); from Flat 157A, 55 Park Lane, London, about an evening with her Italian friends at Chartwell, 26 August 1947 (1); and from the Hotel de la Mamounia in Marrakesh, Morocco, about her holiday with her father Winston Churchill, including their stay in Paris and their dinner with Thami El Glaoui, December 1947 (6).
With a photocopy of a note from Clementine Churchill about Sarah Churchill's letters from Marrakesh, 4 January 1948.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/12
Date:
1948-1949 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from Champneys at Tring, in Hertfordshire, about a holiday with her sister Diana, 21 February 1948 (1); from Flat 157A, 55 Park Lane, London, about her theatrical career, 9 April 1948 (1); from the Langmoor Hotel at Lyme Regis, in Dorset, and in the train to Brighton, about making the film "All Over the Town", 22 June and 11 October 1948 (2); from the home of Justus Lawrence at 445 Park Avenue, New York, about touring New England in a summer stock theatre production, 29 August 1949 (1); from Sea Island, Georgia, about her marriage to Anthony Beauchamp, October 1949 (2); and letters from hotels in New York and Detroit, about her Theatre Guild tour in "The Philadelphia Story", November-December 1949 (2).
With a letter to her father Winston Churchill, 20 November 1949.
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/14
Date:
1951-1952 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from 113 East 61st Street in New York, about her tour in the play "Gramercy Ghost", Anthony Beauchamp's career as a photographer, and visits to London, February-August 1951 (8); from Yellow Stone Farm near Templecombe, in Somerset, about her birthday celebration with her parents, [October 1951] (1); from a hotel in New York, 28 November 1951 (1); and from 910 Fifth Avenue in New York, about her appearances in the Hallmark "Hall of Fame" television series, dramatised readings, and a planned holiday in Europe, February-June 1952 (4).
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/15
Date:
1953-1955 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from 40 Central Park South in New York, 15 February 1953 (1); from 8714 St Ives Drive in Los Angeles, about filming the Hallmark "Hall of Fame" television series, October 1953-February 1954 (3); from the Hôtel Ritz in Paris, about a stay at Chequers with her father Winston Churchill and Oscar Nemon, 1 May 1954 (1); from 186 Ebury Street and 86 Vincent Square in London, about Anthony Beauchamp's film career and Churchill family news, June-December 1954 and undated (5); from the Hotel St Moritz in New York, about the end of her marriage to Anthony Beauchamp, February-March 1955 (2); from the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles, about her acting career, Winston Churchill's resignation as Prime Minister, and viewing an atomic bomb test in Nevada, May 1955 (2); from hotels and theatres in Matunuck in Rhode Island, Cazenovia in New York, Marblehead in Massachusetts, and Hinsdale in Illinois, about her tour in the play "No Time for Comedy", June-September 1955 (6); from 28 Hyde Park Gate in London, 9 November 1955 (1); and from the Hotel St Moritz in New York, 21 December 1955 (1).
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/5
Date:
1936-10 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters about her clandestine departure to join Vic Oliver in New York (2).
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/6
Date:
1940-1941 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from 66 Westminster Gardens, in London, about whether she and Vic Oliver would return to the United States, 30 June 1940 (1); from Morecambe, in Lancashire, about her training in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), October-November 1941 (3); and from Nuneham Park, in Oxfordshire, about her training in photographic interpretation, undated [1941] (1).
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Letters from Sarah Churchill to Clementine Churchill
Reference Code:
SCHL 1/1/9
Date:
1945-09 (creation)
Description:
Comprising letters written from Villa delle Rose at Moltrasio on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy, about her holiday with her father Winston Churchill, September 1945 (3).
Collection:
The Papers of Sarah Churchill


Give Me Inspiration - Diane Coyle
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/7/11
Date:
2021-03-11 (other)
Description:
An interview between Professor Dame Athene Donald and Diane Coyle
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Female Engineers
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/42
Date:
2018-04-11 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Churchill female engineers
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


CHUTalks - Irene Lee
Reference Code:
CCPH/6/6/57
Date:
2019-11-06 (other)
Description:
CHUTalk by Irene Lee
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston
Reference Code:
CSCT 1/8
Date:
1914 (creation)
Description:
Subjects include: Clementine's health and her pregnancy [with Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley]; her appeals to Churchill not to fly; a swarm of bees in the house (Pear Tree Cottage [Overstrand, Norfolk]); King George V's speech on the State Opening of Parliament, July 1914 and a mention of civil war; the break down of the Home Rule conference and Clementine's fears that the Ulster rebels would force an election; the trial of Henriette Caillaux; the build-up to the First World War; the effect of the outbreak of war on the tourist season in Norfolk; the British Expeditionary Force; the capture of some suspected German spies; the arrival of Clementine's mother, Lady Blanche Hozier, from France, and the departure of her sister Nellie Hozier [later Nellie Romilly], to work as a nurse in Belgium; press coverage of the wreck of the German cruiser Emden; concerns about Jack Churchill [John S Churchill] going into action; staying with her mother in Dieppe (May-June 1914); the replacement of Admiral Sir George Callaghan by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [as Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet]; Clementine's concern at Churchill's plan to visit Field Marshal SIr John French [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France, later 1st Lord Ypres] without warning the Prime Minister.
Collection:
The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell


Colour photographs of Edwards sitting at a microscope [in Bourn Hall]
Reference Code:
EDWS 18/5/18
Date:
1980-1985 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Robert Edwards



Transcript of interview: Ann Grant
Reference Code:
DOHP 205
Date:
2021 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Lord Levy
Reference Code:
DOHP 224
Date:
2023 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Christopher Meyer
Reference Code:
DOHP 91
Date:
2004 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Peter Marshall
Reference Code:
DOHP 163
Date:
2017 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Thomas Macan
Reference Code:
DOHP 186
Date:
2019 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme