Allen Packwood

Director of Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge

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Director, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Allen Packwood 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 has since organised many events and lectures, including the successful conference on “The Cold War and its Legacy”, staged over two days at Churchill College in November 2009, and attended by senior representatives from the Russian Federation and the United States.

Allen is the author of several articles, he co-wrote the publication accompanying the Library of Congress display, edited the recent guide to the Churchill Archives Centre, and has lectured extensively on Churchill in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Churchill Archives Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill College, and is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and almost six hundred of their contemporaries: politicians, diplomats, civil servants, military leaders and scientists of the Churchill era and beyond. It is still collecting.

Allen now combines his leadership of the Archives Centre with his role as Executive Director of The Churchill Centre in the United Kingdom.

  • Projects

    Changing role of UK Chief Scientific Advisers: 1990-2010

    This research project aimed to explore how the role of Chief Scientific Advisors changed between 1990 and 2010.

  • 23 May 2019, 5:30pm

    Is the British Civil Service an endangered species?

    Is the British Civil Service an endangered species? A Distinguished Policy Lecture by Lord Wilson of Dinton.

  • 14 April 2015, 10am

    CSaP Annual Conference 2015

    This year our conference will explore opportunities for improving the way government accesses, assesses and makes use of expertise from the humanities, and offer examples of the significant contribution these disciplines have made to public policy.