Andrew Riley
@andrewriley-001.bsky.social
Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
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Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
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I was a @chuarchives.bsky.social By-Fellow last year and would recommend to anyone! Deadline for applications approaching
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I was a @chuarchives.bsky.social By-Fellow last year and would recommend to anyone! Deadline for applications approaching
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Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Spend time with some of the nicest people in Cambridge (and their archives)👇
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Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excellent afternoon with second-year History students at @theul.bsky.social today to look at sources for their ‘Women in Cambridge c.1900-1950’ Research Project. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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🎉 And it’s History Day!
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🎉 And it’s History Day!
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
👋 Come and say hello and delve into our rummage box to see some of the items that our team have chosen for the queer history and heritage trail. 🌈
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
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Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document.
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
October 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document.
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
🗓️ 13th-14th November
📍 Churchill College
🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071
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Article by one of Friday evening's panellists Emma Barnett reflecting on the Bob Edwards Centenary conference panel session: emmabarnett.substack.com/p/the-painfu...
#ivf #ivfhistory
#ivf #ivfhistory
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Article by one of Friday evening's panellists Emma Barnett reflecting on the Bob Edwards Centenary conference panel session: emmabarnett.substack.com/p/the-painfu...
#ivf #ivfhistory
#ivf #ivfhistory
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🎥 Last week our team of Archive Assistants spent an afternoon filming a video on what we do to make our reading room a comfortable and productive space for our researchers.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
September 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🎥 Last week our team of Archive Assistants spent an afternoon filming a video on what we do to make our reading room a comfortable and productive space for our researchers.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
👀 Keep your eyes peeled for the final video appearing on our socials soon.
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Tom Hurst has a book coming out on this: www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Tom-...
Making Speeches : The Speechmaking of Margaret Thatcher, 1975-1990
Having recently passed the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s entry into Number 10 Downing Street, the burgeoning field of Thatcher studies continues to attract the attention of scholars ...
www.tgjonesonline.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Tom Hurst has a book coming out on this: www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Tom-...
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The Elves have done it! We made it round the Vitality London 10k, in aid of @meresearchuk.bsky.social, and in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Thank you to all who sponsored us- but it’s not too late to do so!
And now- CAKE!
🏃♂️ 🍰
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And now- CAKE!
🏃♂️ 🍰
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
September 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Elves have done it! We made it round the Vitality London 10k, in aid of @meresearchuk.bsky.social, and in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Thank you to all who sponsored us- but it’s not too late to do so!
And now- CAKE!
🏃♂️ 🍰
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
And now- CAKE!
🏃♂️ 🍰
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
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📺 70 years ago today, commercial television was broadcast in the UK for the first time.
To mark the occasion, History undergraduates at @angliaruskin.bsky.social have curated an online exhibition, drawing on our collections, to explore this moment in broadcasting history.
buff.ly/5GMK7na
To mark the occasion, History undergraduates at @angliaruskin.bsky.social have curated an online exhibition, drawing on our collections, to explore this moment in broadcasting history.
buff.ly/5GMK7na
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📺 70 years ago today, commercial television was broadcast in the UK for the first time.
To mark the occasion, History undergraduates at @angliaruskin.bsky.social have curated an online exhibition, drawing on our collections, to explore this moment in broadcasting history.
buff.ly/5GMK7na
To mark the occasion, History undergraduates at @angliaruskin.bsky.social have curated an online exhibition, drawing on our collections, to explore this moment in broadcasting history.
buff.ly/5GMK7na
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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A trial lay-up for our architecture-themed Heritage Open Days exhibition: free entry to the archive exhibition and the whole Red House site, next two weekends. If you're in the area, come along!
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A trial lay-up for our architecture-themed Heritage Open Days exhibition: free entry to the archive exhibition and the whole Red House site, next two weekends. If you're in the area, come along!
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🙏 Thank you to @tomhurst.bsky.social, a former Antcliffe By-Fellow, for giving us a copy of his new book 'Making Speeches: The Speechmaking of Margaret Thatcher, 1975-1990', published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social.
📚 We're looking forward to making this book available to our researchers.
📚 We're looking forward to making this book available to our researchers.
September 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🙏 Thank you to @tomhurst.bsky.social, a former Antcliffe By-Fellow, for giving us a copy of his new book 'Making Speeches: The Speechmaking of Margaret Thatcher, 1975-1990', published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social.
📚 We're looking forward to making this book available to our researchers.
📚 We're looking forward to making this book available to our researchers.
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We were delighted to support @kate-werran.bsky.social's First Wives Club research, exploring World War Two through the eyes of Allied leaders’ wives, thanks to the Jennie Churchill Fund.
You can find out more about Kate's research here ⬇️
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You can find out more about Kate's research here ⬇️
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August 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We were delighted to support @kate-werran.bsky.social's First Wives Club research, exploring World War Two through the eyes of Allied leaders’ wives, thanks to the Jennie Churchill Fund.
You can find out more about Kate's research here ⬇️
buff.ly/EUEH5vQ
You can find out more about Kate's research here ⬇️
buff.ly/EUEH5vQ
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The reason I’m getting back into the running groove: 10 years ago some unsporty friends and I did a charity run to raise money for @meresearchuk.bsky.social in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Now, “Emily’s Elves” have reunited to do it again…
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Emily's Elves 10th Anniversary!
10 years ago a bunch of unsporty 30-somethings decided to do something special in memory of the lovely Emily Gregg, who died far too young after suffering terribly with ME. Despite us not having done
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August 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The reason I’m getting back into the running groove: 10 years ago some unsporty friends and I did a charity run to raise money for @meresearchuk.bsky.social in memory of our beautiful friend Emily. Now, “Emily’s Elves” have reunited to do it again…
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
2025vitalitylondon10000.enthuse.com/pf/emilys-el...
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✍️ On 10th August, a few days before #VJDay, Valentine Lawford, reflected on his mixed feelings as the Second World War came to a close.
🌍 During the war, Valentine worked as assistant private secretary to three Foreign Secretaries - Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden and Ernest Bevin.
#VJDay #VJDay80
🌍 During the war, Valentine worked as assistant private secretary to three Foreign Secretaries - Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden and Ernest Bevin.
#VJDay #VJDay80
August 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🖼️ New Online Exhibition Launch 🖼️
We’re excited to share the launch of 'Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words' — a new online exhibition celebrating the voices and experiences of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
We’re excited to share the launch of 'Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words' — a new online exhibition celebrating the voices and experiences of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
July 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🖼️ New Online Exhibition Launch 🖼️
We’re excited to share the launch of 'Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words' — a new online exhibition celebrating the voices and experiences of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
We’re excited to share the launch of 'Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words' — a new online exhibition celebrating the voices and experiences of some of the most influential women in British parliamentary history.
www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
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🌈 Happy Pride Month!
🖼️ Today we share our new exhibition 'An Englishman in New York' on Valentine Lawford.
🎨 In 1948, Lawford swapped diplomacy for art, reinventing himself as an artist & writer. He settled in the US with his partner, the celebrated photographer Horst P. Horst.
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🖼️ Today we share our new exhibition 'An Englishman in New York' on Valentine Lawford.
🎨 In 1948, Lawford swapped diplomacy for art, reinventing himself as an artist & writer. He settled in the US with his partner, the celebrated photographer Horst P. Horst.
buff.ly/suQDZ5q
June 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🌈 Happy Pride Month!
🖼️ Today we share our new exhibition 'An Englishman in New York' on Valentine Lawford.
🎨 In 1948, Lawford swapped diplomacy for art, reinventing himself as an artist & writer. He settled in the US with his partner, the celebrated photographer Horst P. Horst.
buff.ly/suQDZ5q
🖼️ Today we share our new exhibition 'An Englishman in New York' on Valentine Lawford.
🎨 In 1948, Lawford swapped diplomacy for art, reinventing himself as an artist & writer. He settled in the US with his partner, the celebrated photographer Horst P. Horst.
buff.ly/suQDZ5q
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And if you'd like to be our next Archives Centre By-Fellow, just head over to our website to find out more about our application process
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Research grants & By-Fellowships - Churchill Archives Centre
Find out available research grants and Archives By-Fellowships, including eligibility and the application process.
archives.chu.cam.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And if you'd like to be our next Archives Centre By-Fellow, just head over to our website to find out more about our application process
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We're at the Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair! Today, 12pm-4pm. Come find our stall to for research resources and dissertation advice. cambridgedissertationfair.wordpress.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
We're at the Cambridge Archives & Collections Fair! Today, 12pm-4pm. Come find our stall to for research resources and dissertation advice. cambridgedissertationfair.wordpress.com
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A few tickets are still available for the upcoming 10th annual Antcliffe Lecture.
Join us on 17 March to hear Baroness Catherine Ashton discuss a topic that is on all of our minds:
"Challenges in UK Foreign Policy".
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...
Join us on 17 March to hear Baroness Catherine Ashton discuss a topic that is on all of our minds:
"Challenges in UK Foreign Policy".
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...
March 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A few tickets are still available for the upcoming 10th annual Antcliffe Lecture.
Join us on 17 March to hear Baroness Catherine Ashton discuss a topic that is on all of our minds:
"Challenges in UK Foreign Policy".
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...
Join us on 17 March to hear Baroness Catherine Ashton discuss a topic that is on all of our minds:
"Challenges in UK Foreign Policy".
Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...
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⭐ Happy International Women’s Day! ⭐
🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow @satisfactory20.bsky.social explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.
#internationalwomensday
🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow @satisfactory20.bsky.social explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.
#internationalwomensday
March 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
⭐ Happy International Women’s Day! ⭐
🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow @satisfactory20.bsky.social explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.
#internationalwomensday
🎉To celebrate, former Archives Centre By-Fellow @satisfactory20.bsky.social explores a photograph taken in 1944 to mark 25 years since Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take up her seat in the House of Commons.
#internationalwomensday
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📣Free talk on "The Case for Gas": National Energy Transition in Postwar Britain by Archives By-Fellow Dr Kathy Davies.
📅 19th March
⏰ 5:30
📍 Sixties Room, @churchillcol.
https://buff.ly/436KTvQ
No booking required.
📅 19th March
⏰ 5:30
📍 Sixties Room, @churchillcol.
https://buff.ly/436KTvQ
No booking required.
February 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣Free talk on "The Case for Gas": National Energy Transition in Postwar Britain by Archives By-Fellow Dr Kathy Davies.
📅 19th March
⏰ 5:30
📍 Sixties Room, @churchillcol.
https://buff.ly/436KTvQ
No booking required.
📅 19th March
⏰ 5:30
📍 Sixties Room, @churchillcol.
https://buff.ly/436KTvQ
No booking required.
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🌈For LGBT+ History month, we're spotlighting the papers of the diplomat and writer Valentine Lawford.🌈
📨 Recently Valentine's family generously gave us the letters which he sent to his parents between 1927 & 1964.
📨 Recently Valentine's family generously gave us the letters which he sent to his parents between 1927 & 1964.
February 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌈For LGBT+ History month, we're spotlighting the papers of the diplomat and writer Valentine Lawford.🌈
📨 Recently Valentine's family generously gave us the letters which he sent to his parents between 1927 & 1964.
📨 Recently Valentine's family generously gave us the letters which he sent to his parents between 1927 & 1964.