Diary covering Operation "Symbol", Casablanca
Reference Code:
JACB 1/19
Date:
1943-01-1943-02 (creation)
Description:
Manuscript.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob


Sir Ian Jacob diaries and notes
Description:
Private diaries and notebooks of Sir Ian Jacob, military adviser, covering 1939-1943.


"The Razmak Road 1922-3"
Reference Code:
JACB 6/3
Date:
1933 (creation)
Description:
Transcript of student lecture by Jacob at Staff College and illustrations.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob


Winston Churchill staff
Description:
Churchill Archives Centre looks after archives of staff who worked for Winston Churchill and the Churchill family. Highlights here include oral history interviews with former staff of Winston Churchill, and a memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s cook Kathleen Broome.


Transcript of interview: Robert Culshaw
Reference Code:
DOHP 239
Date:
2024 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


15th Roskill Memorial Lecture
Reference Code:
CCRF/118/1/16
Date:
2014-02-20 (creation)
Description:
Given by Mr Jonathan Fenby on the subject of "China's Unfinished Revolution - Why the People's Republic Will Not Rule the World". Includes text of lecture, audio recording, guest list, seating plan for dinner, a copy of the invitation, and thank you letters..
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Audio tape of Phyllis Willmott's interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1933-53
Reference Code:
YUNG 10/6/6
Date:
2001 (creation)
Description:
Side 1: Michael Young moving to London and living at Toynbee Hall in the East End; working at McKenna and Co, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst's firm of solicitors in the City, presided over by Fred Gwatkin; moving on his own to a rented flat in Bloomsbury; membership of the Holborn branch of the Labour Party and standing as a candidate for the Council in Holborn and St Pancras; moving in with his mother, Edith Young, in Bloomsbury; studying for the Bar at Gray's Inn; taking an evening course at the LSE and then switching to study Economics, Politics, Social History and Law full-time there; being elected Secretary of the LSE Students' Union; going to anti-Fascist demonstrations in London with his mother, Edith, during the Spanish Civil War; his first girlfriends; travelling around on his motorbike and visiting Dartington; his continuing relationship with Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst; qualifying as a barrister; working on a plan for wartime manpower policy for Max Nicholson at PEP (Political and Economic Planning); recruitment by Lord Perth to a Civil Service unit making preparations for wartime and the withdrawal of the offer because he had been identified by MI5 as a student Communist; joining PEP as a research officer instead; the post-war reconstruction group set up by Max Nicholson and their discussions of future plans for Europe. Duration; 47:04 minutes. Recorded on 29 May 2001.
Side 2: working at PEP on post-war reconstruction on the domestic front and how to pay for the war (pamphlet titled "Financial Mysticism"); meeting John Maynard Keynes to talk about the latter; his report on preparation for the emergency response to the bombing of London (pamphlet titled "London Under Bombing"); leaving PEP to work in a marine munitions factory in Swindon; joining the Home Guard and training with Tom Winteringham at Osterley Park; becoming the labour manager for the munitions factory, recruiting women workers, liaising with the trade unions, distributing the petrol ration, and progress chasing orders supplied to shipyards around the country; boarding with the Palphramand family in Swindon; meeting Joan Lawson, who later became his first wife; returning to PEP as director; moving to head the Labour Party Research Department at Transport House; the 1945 General Election campaign; Peter Willmott's letter about "Small Man, Big World", meeting each other, and recruiting him to the Research Department; the 1950 and 1951 General Elections; Michael Young's idea for a consumer advice service; his world tour to India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and a narrow escape from a plane crash; his lifelong friendship and working relationship with Peter and Phyllis Willmott; leaving the Research Department and spending time at the Tavistock Institute; starting a PhD on the extended family in Bethnal Green supervised by Richard Titmuss and based at Oxford House. Duration: 36:34 minutes. Recorded on 10 July 2001?
Collection:
The Papers of Michael Young


Cambridge 105 Radio, "Roundabout with Tony Barnfield"
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/31/2
Date:
2020-03-08 (creation)
Description:
'In this On International Women’s Day edition of "Roundabout with Tony Barnfield", two female contributors to the Cambridge Science Festival this week. Professor Dame Athene Donald (pictured), Master of Churchill College, discusses the acceptance of women in Cambridge Colleges since she graduated in 1971…'
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral History: Terry Ambrose
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/44
Date:
2017-04-21 (creation)
Description:
Includes: work on setting out and manufacture of the teak windows and progression to foreman; Canon Duckworth and first christenings; Wolfson and Sheppard Flats; working conditions on site, Alf Bailey and Lofty Parnell; access road, piling, the mound and general ground conditions; making the concrete beams; copper flashing; style of building; students (and women); Tom Hitchens; Sid Brown; minor incident; asbestos
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: Cockcroft Centenary
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/7
Date:
1997 (creation)
Description:
Tape recording of a round table discussion entitled "Cockcroft Remembered" (part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft which were held in College 29 May 1997). 2 tapes, with full transcripts (also papers re other events held on the same day, including written personal reminiscences of Sir John)
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Oral history: admission of women
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/8
Date:
1997 (creation)
Description:
25th Anniversary of the Admission of Women: tape recording of discussion session held with former women students before the celebration dinner. 13 Dec 1997. 3 tapes, together with 2 CDs of the same, produced by Belinda Brooks-Gordon, a brief summary of the main themes of discussion, and a full transcript of all 3 tapes
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Transcript of interview: Sir Roger Carrick
Reference Code:
DOHP 86
Date:
2004 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: David Barrie
Reference Code:
DOHP 220
Date:
2023 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Dennis Amy
Reference Code:
DOHP 45
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Roy Denman
Reference Code:
DOHP 61
Date:
1999 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Tim Dowse
Reference Code:
DOHP 196
Date:
2020 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Colin Munro
Reference Code:
DOHP 122
Date:
2009 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Radio documentary: Working at Churchill College
Reference Code:
CCRF/141/13
Date:
1985-12-11 (creation)
Description:
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire documentary presented by Charles Andrew including interviews with Peter Bullock, Head Porter; Hywel George, Bursar; Marion Stewart, Archivist; Victor Brown, Conservationist; undergraduates using computers; Bruce Saunders, Catering Manager and Ivy in the Fellows Dining Room; Albert Richmond, Head Gardener and Doug Ashman, Head Groundsman; Vic Brown, Maintenance; Marie Champion, Housekeeper, and Grace Marshall (a bedmaker employed in 1961 and still working post-retirement age). All interviewees speak about their responsibilities and life at the College.
Collection:
Official Archive of Churchill College


Transcript of interview: Sir (Arthur) John Coles
Reference Code:
DOHP 46
Date:
2000 (creation)
Description:
Also includes a copy of a pamphlet written by Coles for the New Europe group, on British influence and the euro.
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Nicholas Fenn
Reference Code:
DOHP 126
Date:
2010 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Pamela Gordon
Reference Code:
DOHP 214
Date:
2022 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: John Macgregor
Reference Code:
DOHP 193
Date:
2019-2020 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Horace Phillips
Reference Code:
DOHP 20
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Anthony Parsons
Reference Code:
DOHP 10
Date:
1996 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Martin Morland
Reference Code:
DOHP 100
Date:
2006 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme