Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab) FRHistS OBE
Director of the Churchill Archives Centre
Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), is a Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was awarded an OBE for services to archives and scholarship in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His book, How Churchill Waged War, was published by Pen & Sword in 2018 and he has recently edited the Cambridge University Press Companion to Winston Churchill and co-edited Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill. He is currently working on a book about Churchill’s D-Day, co-authored with General Lord Dannatt and due to be published for the eightieth anniversary of Operation Overlord in June 2024.
The Churchill Archives Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill College, and is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher, Sir John Major and almost seven hundred of their contemporaries: politicians, diplomats, civil servants, military leaders and scientists of the modern era. It is still collecting. Allen likes to joke that it is the equivalent of four American Presidential Libraries! He is responsible for the overall management of the team and collections.
