Monday, February 3, 2025, 5.30pm to 7.30pm EST
You are invited to a special afternoon with the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Allen Packwood speaking at the Society of the Four Arts. In this illustrated lecture, Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, will highlight critical documents from the Archive’s vast collection. He will reveal insights such as MI5 testing on Churchill’s wartime cigars and the contents of Margaret Thatcher’s handbag.
After the talk, you are welcome to join Mr Allen Packwood and fellow alumni and friends of Cambridge for drinks and canapes at the Four Arts complex.
Date: Monday, February 3
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm ET
Location: The Society of the Four Arts, Dixon Education Building, 240 Cocoanut Row Palm Beach, FL 33480
If you have any questions or if you are a member of the Society of the Four Arts, please email us at events@cantab.org.
Speaker
Allen Packwood 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. Allen is a qualified archivist and has worked at the Churchill Archives Centre since September 1995, succeeding Dr. Piers Brendon as Acting Keeper in 2001, before being appointed Director in 2002. Allen was co-curator of Churchill and the Great Republic, a Library of Congress exhibition, which ran from February – July 2004, and of Churchill: The Power of Words, a display at the Morgan Library in New York from June till September 2012.
Booking information
Booking for this event will open on Friday, January 3, 2025, 12.30am EST.