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Letters sent to Winston Churchill by his wife are among an array of fascinating historic papers and recordings which can now be explored via the Archive Centre'sÌýnew Access Portal.

Newly released letters from Edwards’ archive show his personal battle as he repeatedly fought for official recognition of Jean Purdy’s equal contribution towards the discovery ofÌýIVF. Her work as a woman in science has gone largelyÌýunrecognisedÌýwhen compared to Edwards andÌýSteptoe.

Forty thousand pages of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s personal and political papers from 1989 are being opened to the public at the Churchill Archives Centre and online at the website of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.

AÌýnewly-published bookÌýbyÌýChurchill Archives CentreÌýDirector Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during some of the darkest and most uncertain moments of the Second World War.

Several members of the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced today.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥diaries of Captain Scott’s widow – and the papers of her second husband, Lord KennetÌý– will be made accessible to researchers at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library following their acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax.

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches,Ìýletters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register.

Margaret Thatcher’s previously unpublishedÌýmemoir of the Falklands War has been acquired for the nation - after Arts Council England today announced the acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax of papers from the estate of the former Prime Minister.

KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ – will today open to the public for the first time.

Seventy years after Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, the Churchill Archives Centre has released a short film commemorating the ‘forgotten architect’ of D-Day.