Allen George Packwood is the Director of the

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(CAC) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Education

Packwood received a Bachelor of Arts from the

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before going on to earn an MPhil from

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in 1989.

Career

A qualified archivist, Packwood began his career at the Churchill Archives Centre in September 1995. In 2001, he succeeded

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as Acting Keeper of the Archives, and in 2002, the college appointed him to the permanent role as Director. During his tenure as Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Packwood co-curated several highly successful exhibitions on

Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ...

. In 2004, he helped to develop an exhibition with the U.S. Library of Congress entitled ‘Churchill and the Great Republic', which ran from February through July. In 2012, in collaboration with the

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in New York, �
Churchill: The Power of Words
��, presented interactive exhibits that included documents on loan from the Centre. The exhibition ran from June to September of that year. He also helped to organise Churchill 2015, a programme of events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Winston’s death, and was successful in getting the Churchill archive inscribed on the UNESCO international register for the Memory of the World. Packwood was also Executive Director of the

International Churchill Society The International Churchill Society (ICS), formerly known as the Churchill Centre, studies the life and works of Winston Churchill. The Society's exhibits are located at the Churchill War Rooms in London, and the National Churchill Library and C ...

(UK) from 2012 to 2015 and he formerly served as a Trustee on the board of the International Churchill Society. In addition to his work at the archive, Packwood has lectured extensively on Churchill in the United Kingdom and the United States and accompanied Celia Sandys and

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as an expert on a 'Chasing Churchill' Mediterranean Cruise.

Awards

He is a Fellow of Churchill College and the

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. In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his exemplary services to Archives and Scholarship.

Publications

* ''How Churchill Waged War'', Frontline Books, London 2018. References

External links

The Churchill Archives Centre
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Pen and Sword Books

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