The announcement was made at a conference we organised with the History Faculty to mark the 40th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed on 15 November 1985 by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

The Professorship will be known as the Childers Chair in honour of Robert Erskine Childers and Erskine Hamilton Childers, both University of Cambridge alumni and the latter the fourth President of Ireland.

We also look after the papers of Hersch Lauterpacht, who drafted the opening and closing speeches for the Chief British Prosecutor, Sir Hartley Shawcross. Hersch also came up with the concept of crimes against humanity, as part of the charges to be laid against the defendants at Nuremberg.

[Video description: A page from a scrapbook showing an orange, pumpkin shaped invitation to a Halloween party, addressed to George Bull.]

🔵Applications close this Friday 31st October.

🔵Find out more and apply to the fund on our website: buff.ly/xNLUzOq

And please do share with anyone who you think might be interested in applying.

🔵If you don't know, the Jennie Churchill Fund supports archival, educational or research work undertaken on the papers of Winston Churchill & other related collections.

🔵It's available to undergraduates, postgraduates, academics & independent researchers within & beyond Cambridge.

[Video description: A short video sharing a series of photographs of scrapbooks and albums in the papers of Baroness Trumpington.]

In 2024, Boni Sones OBE along with Associates Jackie Ashley and Deborah McGurran, interviewed some of Parliament's leading women, including here at the Archives Centre. We now preserve the full set of interviews within our collections.

Find out more about the project here: buff.ly/HTY46rX

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