Great news for #WomensHistory
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Great news for #WomensHistory
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
🎉We are very pleased to have been awarded a cataloguing grant by @uknatarcsector.bsky.social for Personal is Political: the papers of Harriet Harman.
Find out more here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev...
Also receiving cataloguing grants… Royal Northern College of Music, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, @uniofhull.bsky.social, @lulgalleries.bsky.social & Yorkshire Film Archive
Find out more here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (4/5)
Students looking at a display of scrapbooks in the Churchill Archives Centre reading room
Part of a display of scrapbooks set up on book rests in Churchill Archives Centre reading room
Conservation tools
It was a delight to share this fabulous display of scrapbooks, curated by our former colleague @cherishwatton.bsky.social, with students from @camhistory.bsky.social studying women in Cambridge. Students spent time turning the pages of the scrapbooks and discussing their contents
#archives #history
Excellent news, Matthew. Many congrats!
On Monday 23 March, 5.30-7pm, we will be hosting Breaking Barriers: Women in Politics Film Screening and Panel Discussion as part of the Cambridge Festival
There is no need to book for this FREE event, just come along buff.ly/hFaYaWI
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social @bonisones.bsky.social #camfest
🎉We are very happy to share the news that Churchill College’s Governing Body has voted in favour of plans to build a new Churchill Archives Centre within the Grounds of the College. www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Ayesha Hazarika, Karen Bradley, Mari Takayanagi, Jennie Davey and Gillian Shepherd sitting at a table with red tablecloth, with red wallpaper and white mantlepiece behind. Everyone is smiling
Panel sitting at table at a grand room in no 11 Downing Street with red wallpaper and tablecloth. L-R: Ayesha Hazarika, Karen Bradley, Mari Takayanagi, Jennie Davey, Gillian Shepherd, Clare Short and Nan Sloane.
Grand room at 11 Downing Street full of people sitting facing a panel of women at a table, and Rachel Reeves standing to the side speaking.
Last month I was thrilled to speak at an event at no 11 Downing Street on celebrating women cabinet ministers! @nansloane.bsky.social spoke on Margaret Bondfield, and me on Florence Horsbrugh using my @chuarchives.bsky.social research. Many thanks @histparl.bsky.social
A photograph of Irish Ambassador Martin Fraser speaking at a podium in the Jock Colville Hall at Churchill College.
At a recent conference hosted by the Archives Centre, the Irish Ambassador Martin Fraser, announced on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Harris TD, the establishment of a permanent Chair of Irish History at @cam.ac.uk.
Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
I was a @chuarchives.bsky.social By-Fellow last year and would recommend to anyone! Deadline for applications approaching
Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
Montage showing items from Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections, set out for a class.
Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
A photograph of a member of the Archives Centre team sat behind a table with research guides, leaflets, and copies of items in our collections.
A photograph of facsimiles of relating to queer history.
Research guides, postcards, badges and leaflets on a table
🎉 And it’s History Day!
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
Collage of documents relating to the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement
Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document.
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
Article by one of Friday evening's panellists Emma Barnett reflecting on the Bob Edwards Centenary conference panel session: emmabarnett.substack.com/p/the-painfu...
#ivf #ivfhistory
A member of the team being filmed using a magnifying glass.
Three members of the Archives Team standing outside the front of Churchill College.
🎥 Last week our team of Archive Assistants spent an afternoon filming a video on what we do to make our reading room a comfortable and productive space for our researchers.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
Tom Hurst has a book coming out on this: www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Tom-...
The Elves have done it! We made it round the Vitality London 10k, in aid of @meresearchuk.bsky.social, and in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Thank you to all who sponsored us- but it’s not too late to do so!
And now- CAKE!
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2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
A 1950s Regal Star television set
The control room at Winter Hill station in Lancashire, used to broadcast Granada Television and ABC Weekend TV. Papers of Percy James Grigg, PJGG 10/4.
A photograph of the Lichfield Station building, used to broadcast the ITV signal in the Midlands. Papers of Percy James Grigg, PJGG 10/4.
A photograph of the control desk and transmitter hall at Croydon Station, used to broadcast the London ITV signal. Papers of Percy James Grigg, PJGG 10/4.
📺 70 years ago today, commercial television was broadcast in the UK for the first time.
To mark the occasion, History undergraduates at @angliaruskin.bsky.social have curated an online exhibition, drawing on our collections, to explore this moment in broadcasting history.
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A poster advertising the By-Fellowships and Research Grants offered by Churchill Archives Centre. The text included on this image can be found at the link in the main post.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
An assemblage of building plans and photographs laid out on the tables of an archive reading room.
An assemblage of building plans and photographs laid out on the tables of an archive reading room.
A trial lay-up for our architecture-themed Heritage Open Days exhibition: free entry to the archive exhibition and the whole Red House site, next two weekends. If you're in the area, come along!
A photograph of the front cover of Tom Hurst's book including an image of Margaret Thatcher speaking into a microphone, with a typescript speech with annotations, behind. The cover also includes the title of the book, mentioned above.
🙏 Thank you to @tomhurst.bsky.social, a former Antcliffe By-Fellow, for giving us a copy of his new book 'Making Speeches: The Speechmaking of Margaret Thatcher, 1975-1990', published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social.
📚 We're looking forward to making this book available to our researchers.
A photograph of Kate sitting on a chair, against the backdrop of a painting, with a highlight from her testimonial included in the bottom right-hand corner.
We were delighted to support @kate-werran.bsky.social's First Wives Club research, exploring World War Two through the eyes of Allied leaders’ wives, thanks to the Jennie Churchill Fund.
You can find out more about Kate's research here ⬇️
buff.ly/EUEH5vQ
The reason I’m getting back into the running groove: 10 years ago some unsporty friends and I did a charity run to raise money for @meresearchuk.bsky.social in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Now, “Emily’s Elves” have reunited to do it again…
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
✍️ On 10th August, a few days before #VJDay, Valentine Lawford, reflected on his mixed feelings as the Second World War came to a close.
🌍 During the war, Valentine worked as assistant private secretary to three Foreign Secretaries - Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden and Ernest Bevin.
#VJDay #VJDay80
Baroness Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Gillian Shephard, Deborah McGurran, Anne Campbell, Dame Athene Donald, Baroness Anne Jenkin, and Boni Sones OBE at Churchill College in 2024.
Deborah McGurran, Allen Packwood, Baroness Spelman and Boni Sones OBE at Churchill College, Cambridge.
🖼️ New Online Exhibition Launch 🖼️
We’re excited to share the launch of 'Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words' — a new online exhibition celebrating the voices and experiences of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
Valentine Lawford working on a charcoal portrait, inspired by Horst P. Horst's photograph of the poet and critic Edith Sitwell, 1955, LWFD 6/1
Lawford on the terrace at Oyster Bay, 1957, LWFD 6/2
Lawford at Shangri La, the home of socialite Doris Duke in Hawaii, 1966, LWFD 6/2
🌈 Happy Pride Month!
🖼️ Today we share our new exhibition 'An Englishman in New York' on Valentine Lawford.
🎨 In 1948, Lawford swapped diplomacy for art, reinventing himself as an artist & writer. He settled in the US with his partner, the celebrated photographer Horst P. Horst.
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And if you'd like to be our next Archives Centre By-Fellow, just head over to our website to find out more about our application process
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Archivists Madelin and Sophie behind our stall
Cover of dissertation research guide
We're at the Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair! Today, 12pm-4pm. Come find our stall to for research resources and dissertation advice. cambridgedissertationfair.wordpress.com