Allen George Packwood

Allen George Packwood is the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Education Packwood received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nottingham before going on to earn an MPhil from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1989.

Career 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.

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 and Lady Soames as an expert on a 'Chasing Churchill' Mediterranean Cruise.

Awards 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.

Publications

How Churchill Waged War, Frontline Books, London 2018.