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Churchill Archives Centre: Image Gallery

This area of Churchill Archives Centre's website provides access to images of selected documents from our holdings. The documents illustrate particular themes which are listed below:

Churchill: his life and times

• Churchill: The Evidence. Cradle to grave display based on an exhibition on Churchill's life and career, held at the National Library of Scotland.
• Churchill and the Great Republic. Exhibition based at the US Library of Congress on Churchill's life-long relationship with the United States.
• Churchill and Russia: an online exhibition. Documents illustrating Churchill's changing relationship with Russia, from the Bolshevik revolution in 1919 to the Cold War.

From war to war

• The naval race between Britain and Germany, 1905-1913.
• The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915-1916. Images and documents from the ultimately unsuccessful attack on Gallipoli.
• The Western Front in the First World War.
• Politics and class conflict in the 1920's.
• The inter-war years, 1919-1939.
• Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the Grand Alliance, 1940-1945. Documents illustrating the vital relationships between Britain, the USA and Russia during the Second World War.
• The Bermuda Summit, 1953. Key documents from the Cold War summit, initiated by Churchill in an attempt to improve relations with Russia after Stalin's death.

The archivists' favourites ...

• Archives Awareness display. Items found by the archivists cataloguing some of our lesser-known collections, including images from the Alaska goldrush, a diary entry on the D-Day landings and an account of the evacuation of members of the Imperial family from Russia in 1919.
• College archives display. A few of the stranger items from student life at Churchill College which made it to the archives.
• Extracts from the political diaries of Lord Hailsham.
• Image of the month. Documents picked out each month by the Archives staff (starting from October 2009).
• Los Alamos in colour. Rare images of the secret city of Los Alamos, where scientists worked on the atomic bomb during the Second World War.
• Valentine's Day display. A few of the more romantic documents from the archives.