Our history
Founded by Royal Charter in 1960, Churchill College is one of the newer Cambridge colleges.
It was created to embody the vision of Sir Winston Churchill for how higher education can benefit society in the modern age.
Though the world in which Churchill College was founded was very different from our present, the desire to make a difference to the world, through providing the best education and support for our students, remains constant.
We have become established as a diverse, international community.
We have consistently worked to ensure that everyone we admit has the potential to thrive in Cambridge, whatever their background. While our foundation specifies a focus in mathematics, science and technology, with 70% of our students studying subjects in these fields, we also benefit from a thriving arts community, with an art studio, music centre and theatre on site.
We can count 32 Nobel Prize winners amongst our Fellowship, both past and present, including 9 in Physics, 8 in Physiology/Medicine, 7 in Economics, and 4 each in Chemistry and Literature.
Our College Archivist maintains a College archives within The Churchill Archives Centre on site. The annual Churchill Review has also run since 1963 providing a record of each year’s activity and achievements.
The College Archive
The College Archive at Churchill College is administered separately from the Churchill Archives Centre. It contains corporate and administrative records, photographs, academic records, and various historical papers and records relating to the College.
Its holdings include The College’s Oral History Project, featuring recordings with key founding Fellows and members of staff, papers of individual fellows relating to College administration and records of the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust.
The archives are fully catalogued, and open to researchers with the exception of records containing personal, confidential or sensitive information. Plans of College buildings must be requested in advance due to security concerns. For further information, please contact:
College Archivist
Churchill College
Cambridge
CB3 0DS
Telephone: (01223) 336222
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