Allen George Packwood

Allen George Packwood OBE FRHistS is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. In 1989 he received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nottingham. A qualified archivist, Packwood began his career at the Churchill Archives Centre in September 1995. In 2001, he succeeded Piers Brendon as Acting Keeper of the Archives, and in 2002, the college appointed him to the permanent role as Director. He is a Fellow of Churchill College and the Royal Historical Society. In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List, he was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his exemplary services to Archives and Scholarship.

During his tenure as Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, Packwood co-curated several highly successful exhibitions on Sir 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 the Morgan 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.

2015 was the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill and Packwood was instrumental in the planning of a year-long programme of events called Churchill 2015 to commemorate the significant anniversary.

Packwood was also Executive Director of the International Churchill Society (UK) from 2012 to 2015 and he formerly served as a Trustee on the board of the International Churchill Society.

Works

• How Churchill Waged War (2018)