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The Churchill Archives Centre Annual Report July 2009 – June 2010 The Churchill Archives Centre Annual Report July 2009 – June 2010 1: Introduction It is only as I have sought to collate and to write this report that I have come to fully appreciate what an incredible year it has been for the Churchill Archives Centre. We have been highly active in almost all areas of our work: • bringing in important new political archives and attracting additional accessions to a whole range of existing collections, while also continuing with major cataloguing projects on the papers of Lord Hailsham, Lord Kinnock and Professor Max Born; • hosting a record number of researchers (up 12% on 2008/9), while making available more files available than ever before (up 37% on 2008/9); • supporting the College’s excellent fiftieth anniversary events programme, while also staging the Cold War Conference, the 13th Stephen Roskill Memorial Lecture and participating in events in South East Asia; • opening the papers for the first months of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, for May – Dec 1979, but also highlighting the seventieth anniversary of Churchill’s ‘finest hour’; • launching an ambitious programme to digitise just under one million documents from Lady Thatcher’s archive; • and enjoying a high media profile, with press releases about the opening of the Thatcher Papers, the digitisation of the Churchill Papers, and the 70th anniversary of Churchill’s ‘Finest Hour’ speech. This would not have been possible without the help and advice the Archives Centre receives from its Trustees, Archives Committee, Patrons, Friends, depositors and donors, or without the unfailing support of Churchill College officers, Fellows and staff. But above all else, this report bears witness to the hard work and dedication of the team of the Churchill Archives Centre. Allen Packwood 10 September 2010 2: Financial Report In the year 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 the Archives Centre used its endowments, grants and income to meet expenditure of £476,115. The Archives Centre continued to receive support from its Patrons and Friends, receiving new donation income during the year of £174,249. 1 3: Accessions New Collections These range from a fanatical eugenicist, imprisoned during the Second World War for his fascist sympathies (a collection that includes hitherto unpublished photographs of Nazi Germany), via a woman who worked for Churchill, a man who made film documentaries about Churchill, and Churchill’s namesake and grandson, to the British Ambassador in Washington DC in the late 1970’s, and to two of Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet Ministers. • CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1940-2010) Author, Journalist, Parliamentarian. Honorary Fellow of Churchill College and grandson of Sir Winston Churchill [92 boxes and 6 oversize items]. • HOWELL OF GUILDFORD, Baron David Arthur Russell (b.1936) Conservative MP and Minister, serving as Secretary of State for Energy, 1979–81, and for Transport, 1981–83, and then as Chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1987–97 [circa 105 boxes]. • JAY, Margaret Christian (Peggy) (1913-2008) London City Councilor and political campaigner [77 boxes]. • JAY, Peter (b.1937) Former British Ambassador to the United States, author, broadcaster, economist and journalist [155 boxes and 1 outsize volume]. • LE VIEN, John Douglas (1918-1999) Film maker, who made documentary films about Churchill and Edward VIII [4.5 boxes]. • PITT-RIVERS, George Henry Lane Fox (1890-1966) Anthropologist and Member of Council of the Eugenics Society, who was interned during the Second World War for his links with the British Union of Fascists [49 boxes]. • RAWLINSON OF EWELL, Peter Anthony Grayson, Baron (1919-2006) Conservative MP who rose to be Solicitor-General, Opposition Spokesman for Law and for Broadcasting, and then Attorney-General, 1970-74 [32 boxes]. • SALMON, Vanda (b. c 1925) Personal secretary to Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Astor and others [18 boxes]. • WAKEHAM, John, Baron (b. 1932) Conservative MP and minister who served as: Government Chief Whip, 1983-7; Lord Privy Seal, 1987-8; Leader of the House of Commons, 1987-9; Lord President of the Council, 1988-9; Secretary of State for Energy, 1989-92; and Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, 1992-4 [66 boxes]. Collections to which additional accessions have been made Material has been added to a wide range of our collections strengthening our holdings for politics, grand strategy, diplomacy, public policy and science, engineering and technology. Lord (Julian) Amery (AMEJ), Leo Amery (AMEL), Sir Herman Bondi (BOND), Professor Max Born (BORN), Sir Robin Chichester-Clark (CCLK), Peregrine Churchill (PCHL), Robin Cook (COOK), Peter Cropper (CPPR), Tam Dalyell (TADA), Admiral Lord Fisher (FISR), Sir James Grigg (PJGG), Lord Jenkin (JENK), Lord Kilmuir (KLMR), Sir John Nott (NOTT), Professor Max Perutz (PRTZ), Enoch Powell (POLL), Sir Adam Ridley (RDLY), Stephen Roskill (ROSK), Sir Joseph Rotblat (RTBT), Professor Edward Shire (SHRE), Sir John Stuttard (STUT), Lady Thatcher (THCR), Lord Thurso (THRS), Michael Young (YUNG). There have also been additions to the Miscellaneous holdings (MISC), and to the Churchill Additional (WCHL) and Thatcher and Whittle Associated collections (THCR AS & WHTL AS). 2 4: Readers 2008/9 2009/10 Total No. of Readers 476 536 Readers by nationality: UK 296 (62%) 354 (66.0%) USA & Canada 91 (19%) 63 (11.8%) Europe 43 (9%) 55 (10.3%) Other 31 (7%) 46 (8.6%) Joint nationality - 4 (0.7%) Not stated 15 (3%) 14 (2.6%) Total No. of Daily Visits 1344 1602 Document requests 6341 8697 (1405 for Churchill) (1094 for Churchill) % of first-time visitors (328) 69% 72% (384) No of readers using 139 (29%) 128 (24%) Churchill Papers Most Used Collections in 2009/10 Collections by number of readers using collection Collections by number of files issued 1: CHAR (pre 1945 Churchill) 113 1: CHAR (pre 1945 875 Churchill) 2: THCR (Margaret Thatcher) 64 2: THCR (Margaret 708 Thatcher) 3: CHUR (post 1945 Churchill) 46 3: RTBT (Joseph Rotblat) 457 3:= AMEL (Leo Amery) 46 4: RVJO (RV Jones) 380 4: POLL (Enoch Powell) 26 5: AMEL (Leo Amery) 319 5: ESHR (Lord Esher) 20 6: VNST (Vansittart) 280 5: = HLSM (Lord Hailsham) 20 7: POLL (Enoch Powell) 273 6: DNSD (Duncan Sandys) 16 8: ESHR (Lord Esher) 246 7: CSCT (Clementine 15 9: CHUR (post 1945 219 Spencer-Churchill) Churchill) 7: = STED (W T Stead) 15 10: ACAD (Alexander 186 Cadogan) 7: = HNKY (Lord Hankey) 15 7: = VNST (Vansittart) 15 8: ACAD (Alexander 14 Cadogan) 8: = BEVN (Ernest Bevin) 14 8: = NBKR (Philip Noel-Baker) 14 9: FISR (Admiral Lord Fisher) 13 9:= MCKN (Reginald 13 McKenna) 10: CASR (Cecil Spring Rice) 12 10:= CHAN (Lord Chandos) 12 10: = SPRS (Louis Spears) 12 4.1 Reader Statistics I believe these statistics record the highest level of researcher use in the Centre’s history. Moreover, they do not take account of the many enquiries that are now being answered by letter, fax, phone and increasingly by email. The figures for use of individual collections show more people using Lady Thatcher’s papers, as her archive starts to open, but also confirm that a wide range of collections are being heavily used, including some, like the Amery, Powell and Hailsham papers, that have been catalogued and made available in recent years. 3 5: Archives By-Fellows The following Archives By-Fellows took up residence in College 2009/10: • Michaelmas Term 2009 – Dr Andrew Gordon (Reader in Defence Studies at Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, Swindon), who was working on the biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay for Harvard University Press. • Lent Term 2010 – Dr Gaynor Johnson (Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Salford), who was working on a biographical monograph about Sir Alexander Cadogan and has now decided to use Cadogan’s two periods as Permanent Under Secretary and that of Vansittart as the 'root' for a study of the 'Foreign Office mind' in the period 1930-1946. • Lent Term 2010 – Dr Graham Farmelo (Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA) who continued his studies from Lent Term 2009 for an inter-disciplinary project “Churchill’s nuclear scientists”. • Easter Term 2010: Dr Andrew Brown (a retired Radiologist and experienced biographer) who had been asked by British Pugwash to write an official biography of Sir Joseph Rotblat. Dr Johnson was the recipient of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust grant for an Archives By-Fellowship, and in addition Dr Farmelo benefited from a second grant. The Trust has generously offered funding for one Archives By-Fellow per academic year, contributing towards their accommodation, research and living expenses while at Churchill College for a term of study. Fuller details are available on the Archives Centre website at http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/about/byfellowship.php. 6: Publications and Media Usage The following is a selection of new works added to the Roskill Library in 2009/10, chosen because they derive directly and significantly from research undertaken in the Churchill Archives Centre: • Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its allies, 1939-45, Gerald Hensley. • Winston S Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert (5 vols ), new edition by Hillsdale Press. • The Churchill Documents, Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert (13 vols), new edition by Hillsdale Press. • The Churchills: a family portrait, Celia and John Lee. • Churchill’s Empire: the world that made him and the world he made, Richard Toye. • Churchill’s War Lab: code-breakers, boffins and innovators: the mavericks Churchill led to victory, Taylor Downing. • A Distorted Mirror: the transformation of a Milk Snatcher to an Iron Lady, 1971-79, Michèle Blagg • Finest Years: Churchill as warlord, 1940-45, Max Hastings. • The Great Edwardian Naval Feud: Beresford’s vendetta against ‘Jackie’ Fisher, Richard Freeman. • Stepping Stones and the Origins of Thatcherism, 1974-79, James Varela.
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