Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 6.00pm to 8.00pm EDT
Cambridge in America welcomes you to a special event at The Willard Intercontinental in Washington, DC.
In the eightieth anniversary year of D-day, Allen Packwood (Sidney Sussex, 1989), Director of the Churchill Archives Center, will use the rich documentary heritage preserved in the Churchill Archives Centre to describe Churchill’s thinking in the run up to the largest amphibious operation ever undertaken.
This event is hosted by the CAm Washington DC Advisory Committee:
• Cristina Burelli (Queens 1981), Chair
• Justin Jacinto (Trinity Hall 1999)
• Blair Lapres (Darwin 2009)
• Christopher Ling (Churchill 1986)
• Josef Martens (Wolfson College 1988)
• Donna Netschert (Selwyn College)
• Irina Nikolic (Trinity Hall 1995)
• Joe Pesce (Peterhouse 1988)
• Sarah Rhodes (St Catharine's College 1998)
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Location: The Willard, Crystal Room, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004
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 is now closed.
