Janus: Churchill Press Photographs

Churchill contains:
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CHAR and CHUR	The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
CHHE	Churchill Heritage
CHIE	Christison Family Papers
CHOH	Churchill Oral History
CHPC	Churchill Press Cuttings
CHPH	Churchill Press Photographs
CHPN	The Papers of Guy Chapman
CHRS	The Papers of Group Captain Malcolm Christie
CHTY	Commemorative issues of magazines and newspapers 1897, 1953, 1965 and various
CHWL	Chartwell Manuscripts
CKFT	The Papers of Sir John Cockcroft
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Churchill Press Photographs

Title	Churchill Press Photographs
Reference	GBR/0014/CHPH
Creator	Various press agencies
Covering Dates	1874–1968
Extent and Medium	18 archive boxes; photograph
Repository	Churchill Archives Centre

Content and context

A biographical history of Sir Winston Churchill (WSC) is available as part of the introduction to Sir Winston's own papers.

Photographs of WSC throughout his career.

The Churchill Press Photographs were acquired by Churchill College in January 1972.

The photographs are mainly arranged by year, with most years taking up two files.

The collection is owned by Churchill College, Cambridge.

Access and Use

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.

Researchers wishing to obtain copies of the photographs must obtain prior permission from the copyright holder and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.

Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH

Further information

Churchill Archives Centre holds the papers of Sir Winston Churchill (references GBR/014/CHAR and GBR/014/CHUR) plus a range of related archive collections. These include the papers of Churchill's wife, Clementine Spencer-Churchill, press cuttings, and the Broadwater Collection of Churchill family photographs and albums. There are also a large number of photographs of Churchill and Clementine Spencer-Churchill in the papers of Oscar Nemon, at GBR/014/NEMO 5.

Churchill Archives Centre also has a microfilm copy of Churchill's Prime Ministerial Office papers, 1940-1945 (Public Record Office classes PREM 3 and PREM 4) and holds the papers of several people whose careers were closely linked with Churchill, such as Sir John Colville, Sir George Harvie-Watt, and Sir John Martin. A list of these collections is available at: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/classified/Churchill.shtml. Catalogues to these collections are being added to the Janus website.

Copies of this catalogue are available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, at the National Register of Archives, London, and on the JANUS website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.

This collection description and catalogue was complied by Katharine Thomson at Churchill Archives Centre from July-August 2005, using information from an existing catalogue.

Index Terms

Photographs

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965) Knight, statesman and historian

Churchill/CHPH contains:

Photographs throughout career.
6 files.

1876–1947

Photographs, 1948-50.
8 files.

1948–1950

Photographs, 1951-53.
7 files.

1951–1953

Photographs, 1954.
3 files.

1954

Photographs, 1955-57.
5 files.

1955–1957

Photographs, 1958-59.
6 files.

1958–1959

Photographs, 1959-60.
4 files.

1959–1960

Photographs, 1961-65.
4 files.

1961–1965

WSC's funeral.
4 files.

Jan 1965

Photographs of WSC's family.
4 files.

1874–1968

Miscellaneous photographs of WSC, his paintings and cartoons.
3 files.

1937–1961

WSC during the Second World War. Includes: studies of WSC at Chartwell [Kent]; WSC as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 615 squadron; the British War Cabinet; WSC inspecting the defences of Southern Command; WSC inspecting bomb damage at Dover and Ramsgate; bomb damage at Buckingham Palace [London]; WSC and Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States; WSC's visit to the Western Desert, North Africa.
1 file.

1939–1942