Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a qualified archivist and has worked at the Centre since September 1995, succeeding Dr Piers Brendon as Acting Keeper in 2001, before being appointed Director in 2002. Allen was co-curator of ‘Churchill and the Great Republic’, a Library of Congress exhibition, which ran from February -July 2004, and of ‘Churchill: The Power of Words’, a display at the Morgan Library in New York from June till September 2012.

Allen was awarded an OBE for services to archives and scholarship in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His book, How Churchill Waged War, was published by Pen & Sword in 2018 and he has recently edited the Cambridge University Press Companion to Winston Churchill and co-edited Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill. His latest book is Churchill’s D-Day, co-authored with General Lord Dannatt and published for the eightieth anniversary of Operation Overlord in June 2024.