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Allen George Packwood | |
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| Education | University of NottinghamSidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Director of the Churchill Archives Centre |
| Years active | 2002 to Present |
| Notable work | How Churchill Waged War |
Allen George PackwoodOBE FRHistS is the Director of theChurchill Archives Centre[1] (CAC) atChurchill College, University of Cambridge.
Packwood received a Bachelor of Arts from theUniversity of Nottingham before going on to earn an MPhil fromSidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1989.[2]
A qualified archivist, Packwood began his career at the Churchill Archives Centre in September 1995. In 2001, he succeededPiers Brendon as Acting Keeper of the Archives, and in 2002, the college appointed him to the permanent role as Director.[1]
During his tenure as Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Packwood co-curated several highly successful exhibitions onSir Winston Churchill. 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 theMorgan Library 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.[2]
Packwood was also Executive Director of theInternational Churchill Society (UK) from 2012 to 2015 and he formerly served as a Trustee on the board of the International Churchill Society.[3]
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 andLady Soames as an expert on a 'Chasing Churchill' Mediterranean Cruise.
He is a Fellow of Churchill College and theRoyal Historical Society.[4]
In the2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was awarded theOBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his exemplary services to Archives and Scholarship.[4][5]
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