Coming August 2012: The Churchill Archive
The Churchill Archive is a unique resource that brings nearly one million documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life online for the first time.
Annotated telegram by Churchill on Downing Street paper, 16 February 1942
Winston S. Churchill is an icon: a global symbol for strong leadership and the defence of freedom against totalitarianism. Read the hand-written notes and private letters that reveal the human side to the man who is recognised to have saved the nation. Doubts and demons sit alongside confidence and bravado - all of which made up one of the most remarkable Prime Ministers in British history.
To complement the core content, the Churchill Archive will offer an expanding range of additional materials, including pedagogical resources and secondary materials, plus editorially-selected links to other resources, video and audio content, and biographical and bibliographic databases.
"The Churchill Papers collection is an Aladdin's cave of historical riches, which it has been my privilege to explore. I strongly endorse this project, which will enable everyone to have access to Winston S. Churchill's writings and correspondence. It is a project that will bring the history of the first sixty years of the Twentieth Century, and the remarkable story of Britain's greatest Prime Minister, into the classroom and the home."
- Sir Martin Gilbert, The Churchill Biographer and special adviser to The Churchill Archive project.