Yesterday the Archives Centre was visited by Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Halifax. Or rather, we were visited by the actors Warren Clarke and Jeremy Clyde playing the respective roles in the play “Three days in May” currently on stage at the Cambridge Arts Theatre as part of a national tour.

Shaking hands with a bronze cast by Oscar Nemon of Sir Winston Churchill’s hand

Our visitors consulted Sir Winston Churchill’s papers for the short but crucial period in May 1940 when the Prime Minister ultimately convinced his cabinet not to make peace overtures to Nazi Germany but to fight on.

Consulting the archive with Allen Packwood, Director of the Archives Centre (images reproduced by kind permission of Olivia Abbott, Cambridgeshire Agenda)

Clarke had played Churchill already, for television back in 1974. Now, close to Churchill’s age when he became PM in 1940, he is rediscovering the role.

Andrew Riley.

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