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


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


Oral History: Les Smith
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/34
Date:
2014-05-29 (creation)
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.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Gordon Patterson
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/38
Date:
2016-09-28 (creation)
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;
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Transcript of interview: Sir Roger Bone
Reference Code:
DOHP 165
Date:
2018 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Butler
Reference Code:
DOHP 25
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Cecily "Chips" Gemmell
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/GMLL
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Cecily Gemmell, former personal secretary to Winston Churchill (1947-51) and Clementine Churchill (1951-53).
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Sir John Martin
Reference Code:
CHOH 1/MRTN
Date:
1986 (creation)
Description:
Interview with Sir John Martin, former Private Secretary (1940-41) and Principal Private Secretary (1941-45) to Winston Churchill.
Collection:
Churchill Oral History


Soundscriber recording of a conversation about using the Soundscriber machine
Reference Code:
CHWL 6/5/16 side 1
Date:
1947-08 (creation)
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".
Collection:
Chartwell Manuscripts


Oral History: Dr Barry Shorthouse
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/30/8
Date:
2016-09-25 (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: Michael Thouless
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/51
Date:
2017-10-17 (creation)
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
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Sir John Boyd
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/53
Date:
2018-06-22 (creation)
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.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Recording 1
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/59/1
Date:
2021-03-23 (creation)
Description:
Interview includes coming to Churchill College; early GODS; first directing role, teaching in English, and 'Pablo Naruda' (1973) play
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College