This is a podcast created by the Cambridge-based Churchill Archives Centre, home to the personal papers of 600 political, military and scientific figures. In this podcast, we want to open the doors to the Archives Centre by interviewing the actors who promote, conserve, study and explore the great richness of our collections. 

In this first episode, we interviewed our Senior Conservator, Sarah Lewery, who is preserving the collections for more than 20 years. She has an extended knowledge of the collections and on how to preserve them. In this conversation, Sarah talks about how she started her career in conservation, what are the challenges of today, how she handled things

Churchill Archives Centre Podcast: Who is Our Conservator?

In this special History Day 2021 podcast, we delve into our social science collections here at Churchill Archives Centre to explore what they can tell us about the urban environment in 1950s London.

Listen to interviews between Phyllis Willmott and Michael Young: https://soundcloud.com/churchill-college/sets/yung-10-6

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Churchill Archives Centre History Day 2021 Podcast: the urban environment

Mark Abrams’ survey work for Research Services Ltd; his opinion polling for the Labour Party; his move to the Social Science Research Council and then to the research unit at Age Concern; and his son Philip’s career in sociology.

This file in our catalogue: https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/archival_objects/407462

Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 4.

Mark Abrams’ first marriage to Una Strugnell; his time at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC; his return to London and his employment in the market research department of the London Press Exchange; his work on propaganda during the Second World War; publication of various books both before and after the War; his children, Philip and Evelyn; his return to the London Press Exchange and the formation of its subsidiary Research Services Ltd.

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Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 3.

Mark Abrams’ postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics; and his subsequent employment and research surveys at an Agricultural College in Evesham.

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Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 2, Side 2.

Mark Abrams’ experiences as a student at the London School of Economics.

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Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 2, Side 1.

Mark Abrams’ parents; their migration from the Russian Empire to London and Jewish cultures in both places; his father’s political activism and his work as a pedlar, market stall holder and shop keeper in Edmonton in North London and Hertfordshire; the family home in Edmonton; his siblings; and his education at Montagu Road Elementary School, Latymer School in Edmonton, and the London School of Economics.

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Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 1.

What happened when Churchill encountered a high-tech recording system in the 1940s?  (Clue: it didn’t go well).  Listen to him at home as you’ve never heard him before, wrestling with the technology (sound familiar?) and learn how these unique recordings came to be made and heard today.

The full digitised audio from 3 of these soundscriber disks is available at www.soundcloud.com/churchill-college/sets/chwl-6-5

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Churchill Archives Centre Podcast: Churchill's Soundscribers

Michael Young moving to London and living at Toynbee Hall in the East End; working at McKenna and Co, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst's firm of solicitors in the City, presided over by Fred Gwatkin; moving on his own to a rented flat in Bloomsbury; membership of the Holborn branch of the Labour Party and standing as a candidate for the Council in Holborn and St Pancras; moving in with his mother, Edith Young, in Bloomsbury; studying for the Bar at Gray's Inn; taking an evening course at the LSE and then switching to study Economics, Politics, Social History and Law full-time there; being elected Secretary of the LSE Students' Union; going to anti-Fascist demonstrations in London with his mother, Edith, during the Spanish Civil War; his first girlfriends; travelling around on his motorbike and visiting Dartington; his continuing relationship with Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst; qualifying as a barrister; working on a plan for wartime manpower policy for Max Nicholson at PEP (Political and Economic Planning); recruitment by Lord Perth to a Civil Service unit making preparations for wartime and the withdrawal of the offer because he had been identified by MI5 as a student Communist; joining PEP as a research officer instead; the post-war reconstruction group set up by Max Nicholson and their discussions of future plans for Europe.

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Phyllis Willmott's oral history interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1933-53. Side 1.

A text synopsis of this interview is available here: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/CHOH%202%20KHLL.pdf

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Mark Abrams interviewed by Dominic Abrams about his life. Tape 2, Side 1.

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