Author: Chris Plummer
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The role of our Events Team in helping Churchill College thrive
Eight Churchill students have secured fully-funded ‘Engineering a Better World Internships’ through the Royal Academy of Engineering. The internships will place them with alumni of the Academy’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for some…
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Blood on the chart: naval service and duty during the First World War
Among the treasures of the Churchill Archives Centre is a rather unique naval chart, plotting the movements of HMS Southampton at the Battle of Jutland, on 31 May 1916. Sketched […]
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Victor Brown, 1934-2024
Vic Brown was the Conservator in the Churchill Archives Centre from 1969 until his retirement in 1998. On leaving school, he took on an apprenticeship with the London School of […]
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Selling Maternal Modernity to 1930s China
The Churchill Archives Centre is known for holding the papers of post-Second World War figures in politics, science and the military, most of whom were British. Peppered within these papers, […]
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Grounds & Gardens team joins the Big Butterfly Count!
It’s been a fascinating couple of weeks for our Grounds & Gardens team as they took part in their first ever Big Butterfly Count. This annual event, run by Butterfly […]
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A Historian Let Loose in Churchill Archives Centre
PhD student Matthew Hurst reflects on his month spent behind the scenes at Churchill Archives Centre. Visit any archive in the UK and you will have a broadly similar experience […]
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Winston Churchill’s Forgotten Olympics Speech
In a little-known speech made a century ago, Winston Churchill gave his strong support for raising funds that would enable British athletes to participate in the Olympics regardless of their […]
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My Churchill, Your Churchill – Computer Science then and now
Dr Brian Knight went to school in Letchworth Grammar School and was part of Churchill College’s pioneering state school sixth form visitor scheme in 1969. He came to visit the […]
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A Year in the Life of Churchill College
Our brand-new ‘Year in the Life’ video series, filmed over the course of the 2023-24 academic year, follows our students through each term. Documenting the unique experiences that shape their […]
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Life after Churchill – a postgraduate profile
Alexis Kaminski studied for a PhD in Maths and Theoretical Physics at Churchill College from 2012-2016, and since then has gone on to become Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at […]
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Myths about life since the Middle Ages – busted by Campop!
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year with the launch of a new blog – Top of the CamPops […]
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My postgraduate life at Churchill
The life of a postgrad student at Churchill College is more than late-night study sessions and intense research projects. Many of our talented students dive headfirst into a kaleidoscope of […]