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Annual Report of the Churchill Archives Centre 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE 2016-2017 The Director was on sabbatical from January to June 2017 and wishes to record his thanks to Natalie Adams, Sarah Lewery and Andrew Riley, who covered for him during his absence. Highlights Following its successful pilot, the Archives Centre installed freezer storage for the preservation of its most vulnerable audio-visual materials. Cataloguing was completed on the papers of Professor Sir Aaron Klug. Cataloguing commenced on the papers of Professor Sir Robert Edwards. A new Records Retention Schedule was produced to help the College manage its current records. The Archives Centre staged a Scavenger Hunt and launched its own Twitter account. The Centre partnered with the University of Zurich to commemorate the anniversary of Churchill’s speech there in 1946. The Centre hosted a discussion on Churchill and nuclear weapons, and staged a two-day symposium on the nature of modern warfare. New collections and accessions The Archives Centre received the following new collections: The Archives Centre also received new accessions to the following collections: Sir Roy Denman Professor Sir Hermann Bondi Srdja Djukanovic Duff and Lady Diana Cooper Dr Audrey Glauert Professor Dame Athene Donald Simon Heffer (Powell Professor Sir Robert Edwards Associated) Sir John Hoskyns Hon. Peter Jay Donald Hopson Captain Stephen Roskill Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat Professor Sir Martin Ryle Lord Marples Baroness Thatcher Geoffrey Pyke Sir Frank Whittle Romola Christopherson (Thatcher Associated) Preservation Packaging and Storage A second laboratory freezer has been installed this year, after the success of last year’s pilot scheme. Some moving image films as well as film negative material have been carefully packaged into bags with humidity buffering materials and indicators. The main storage areas continue to provide good, cool storage for our mixed media collections all year round A large amount of retrospective preservation packaging has been carried out on many collections including Horsbrugh, Buist, Leeper, Willink, Clark, Colquhoun, Crooke, Lennard- Jones, De Robeck, Crawford, George Lloyd and Dingle-Foot. Packaging of Churchill (CHUR 4) and Hankey continues. New, specialist packaging was carried out on the artefact, photographic and slide material in the Klug papers. The whole of the Duncan-Sandys collection has been re-boxed following an assessment of the risks associated with over-full boxes Contents of Freezer 2. The small blue markers indicate that the humidity inside the packages is safe Preservation General The on-going Collections Care Risk Assessment has continued to make an impact, including: o Further electrical, plumbing and housekeeping improvements. o In depth assessments to the risks of loaning material for exhibition (there have been several loans this year) and improvements to our procedures. o A new survey of over-full boxes to enable us to tackle the problem in priority order. Model book cradle constructed for a Meitner diary prior to loan for exhibition in Wittenberg o Audio-visual digitisation in-house and externally has contributed to the preservation of audio and video tapes from numerous collections. o Collections include Powell Associated, Marples, Klug, Randolph Churchill, Churchill Associated and Churchill College. Unusual format audio tape from the papers of Ernest Marples Conservation Preventive conservation has included bespoke boxes/packages for the papers of Horsbrugh, Leeper, Mary Churchill, Cockroft, Edwards, Crawford and Buist. More interventive work (for example, cleaning, interleaving, reattachment of prints, repairs), as well as bespoke Vulnerable pressed flowers in a Roskill boxing has been carried out on photograph album, before conservation photograph albums in the Roskill, Peter Jay and Diana Cooper papers. Full paper conservation work has been carried out on Julian Amery’s severely mould damaged papers (on-going for several years) and the papers of Sarah Churchill. Damaged items from the Sarah Churchill papers, requiring conservation treatment Cataloguing: The Papers of Professor Sir Aaron Klug The cataloguing of the Klug Papers was completed by Louise Watling (348 archive boxes). For those interested in the history of electron microscopy and virus structure the collection will be an incredibly rich resource. However, there is also material which will be of immense general interest: letters and postcards from Rosalind Franklin; Francis Crick; James Watson; John Kendrew; and Max Perutz and topical correspondence during Klug’s time as President of the Royal Society regarding BSE; GM crops and HIV. Additionally, the Klug archive also provides a glimpse at both social and political history for the collection includes material on the ‘Refuseniks’ and Aaron Klug’s correspondents include, Norman Podhoretz the neoconservative pundit; authors Murray Carlin; Dan Jacobson and Jacqueline and Huw Wheldon. The project was funded with a grant from the Wellcome Trust. Cataloguing: The Papers of Professor Sir Robert Edwards Cataloguing commenced on the personal papers of the late Professor Sir Robert Edwards and is expected to be completed by December 2018. The project is supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust. Cataloguing: Sir John Major Work has now begun on cataloguing the papers of former Prime Minister Sir John Major. This is a large archive of around 900 boxes, so two archivists are working on different sections. At present, we are concentrating on the earlier part of the archive from the early 1990s, as this will be opened first under the Government’s 20-year rule for the release of official papers. So far, we have completed: early sections of Major’s public and political papers, including correspondence with MPs, Political Office correspondence, and the papers of Major’s Parliamentary Private Secretaries. copies of Prime Ministerial papers, including Major’s personal minutes and messages to and from Heads of Government. Engagement files. Press cutting albums from throughout Major’s career. Photograph albums. Cataloguing: Mary Soames Work on the Mary Soames Papers (probably the final archive of Churchill’s immediate family) is now drawing to a close. This year, the biggest and possibly most valuable section, that of her literary papers, consisting of nearly 100 boxes and including a good deal of original source material, has been completed, and also a large number of photographs of the Churchills, which Mary collected for use in her books. Other completed series include Mary’s speeches and visits. Now that cataloguing is nearing completion, a project to digitise her wartime diaries (which Mary stuffed with post-it notes when she was writing her own memoirs, which makes them extremely difficult to use without damage) is about to begin. Box of Mary’s diaries, bristling with post-it notes and providing a challenge for conservation! Cataloguing: the Soundscriber discs These are a series of over 50 unusual early recordings of Sir Winston Churchill, made on rather odd looking small green discs using an American Soundscriber machine. These recordings were mainly made by Churchill himself while dictating his war memoirs in the late 1940s, but also include rare recordings of two of his best-known post war speeches: his speech at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, in March 1946, “The Darkening International Scene”, and a second speech given at MIT, Boston, in March 1949, "The twentieth century - its promises and its realisation”. Rare as these are, the private recordings of the war memoirs done at Chartwell are even more unique, and you hear Churchill pacing, coughing, blowing his nose, and talking to his staff. Until recently, we didn’t really have a very detailed idea of what was on these discs, but as part of a survey of our audio-visual material the recordings were identified and then digitised. Within the archives we also have supporting correspondence with the Soundscriber Corporation and Discavox Dictating Machine Company, who supplied the recording equipment, and in Mary Soames’s papers, which are currently being catalogued, an account by the sound engineer of the challenges he faced when setting the Soundscriber machine up for Churchill! Records Management & College Archive Gillian Booker, the College Records A variety of new accessions have Manager, focussed on the creation of a come into the College Archive from comprehensive records retention College departments and also from schedule for the College. This current students, alumni, fellows and document will help the College to other donors. Recently catalogued manage the retention and disposal of records include: College Council its records in accordance with legal minutes and papers; JCR Committee and regulatory requirements and with records; spring ball posters; obituaries; due consideration of the operational matriculation photographs, and oral and historical value of such records to history recordings. Among the more the College. Implementation of the unusual items to have been catalogued schedule is due to begin in recently was a special edition of the autumn/winter 2017. new polymer five pound note featuring Sir Winston Churchill. The photo shows the bank note being presented to the College by the Director for Banknotes and Chief Cashier at the Bank of England, Victoria Cleland, and has a serial number bearing the year of the College’s foundation. The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme Abbey Wright and her ever-expanding
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