The Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton

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​Sir Winston Churchill Society 59th Memorial Banquet

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The Society's 59th Memorial Banquet, held on June 5, 2025, was a delightful evening indeed. 

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Our illustrious guest speaker was Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS, is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre,  Churchill College,  at the University of Cambridge.

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The Churchill Archives Centre is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher and almost six hundred of their contemporaries: politicians, diplomats, civil servants, military leaders and scientists of the Churchill era and beyond. It is still collecting.

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A qualified archivist, Allen Packwood has worked at the Churchill Archives Centre since September 1995. He was appointed Director in 2002 and has since organized many events and lectures, including the successful conference on “The Cold War and its Legacy,” staged over two days at Churchill College in November 2009.  He combines his leadership of the Archives Centre with his role as Executive Director of The Churchill Centre in the United Kingdom.

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Allen Packwood is the author of How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War, Out of the Cold:  The Cold War and its Legacy, and Churchill's D-Day. He has also authored several articles and edited the recent guide to the Churchill Archives Centre.  He has lectured extensively on Churchill in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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In 2016, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth awarded him Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his exemplary service to Archives and Scholarship.

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