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Archives Awareness Display

Many of the catalogues to the Centre's collections have, until recently, only been available in paper form. In addition to major cataloguing projects, Churchill Archives Centre is currently enhancing and adding to the information available online about its collections. We are steadily adding descriptions of our collections to the Janus webserver which contains catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge. We have made impressive progress: in 2000 only brief information about each of our 600 collections was available online, now there are online finding aids (ranging from detailed catalogues to collection level descriptions) to about half of our collections available on Janus. It's well worth visiting the Janus website regularly to check for new additions.

These online finding aids are a considerable benefit to researchers using the Archives Centre or planning a research project. The finding aids themselves have been enhanced and now meet professional standards for archival description and the Centre would be delighted to receive feedback about them. The process of improving our catalogues has also been a valuable opportunity to assess the collections they describe and has given the archivists a chance to discover collections which were not well-known either to them or users of the Centre. This display brings together a selection of the archivists' favourite items, all of which have been catalogued in the past year. For further information, please ask staff or visit the Janus website.

This display has been registered with the Archives Awareness Campaign which aims to celebrate and uncover the amazing wealth of material contained within archives to a wider audience. The campaign is ongoing and is supported by The National Council on Archives, The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and The National Archives.

Simply click on the thumbnails to view the documents.

	Photograph taken by Louis Egerton Broome during the Alaska goldrush.
	Photograph taken by Louis Egerton Broome during the Alaska goldrush.
	Photograph taken by Louis Egerton Broome during the Alaska goldrush.
	Photograph taken by Louis Egerton Broome during the Alaska goldrush.
	Sketch by Admiral Sir Henry Crooke.
	Diary account of the D Day landings.
	Troops being greeted following the D Day landings.
	Account of the evacuation of the Dowager Empress Marie from Russia, April 1919. [Page 1] [Page 2]
	List of passengers evacuated from Russia, April 1919. [Page 1] [Page 2]
	Photograph of the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia.
	Photograph of members of the Russian Imperial Family.
	Play by Sir Robert Vansittart. [Page 1] [Page 2]