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The Churchill Archive includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents from 1874 to 1965, ranging from Winston Churchill's personal correspondences to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians and military leaders.
The Churchill Archive is a digital library covering major events in British and world history from the Second World War to the Suez Crisis. This rich collection combines Churchill's correspondence with kings, presidents, prime ministers, authors and artists - from Franklin Roosevelt to Charlie Chaplin - with his famous wartime broadcasts and political papers, as well as exclusive, specially commissioned academic resources to support teaching and research.
Designed for both teaching and research, the collection is augmented by interactive user tools and valuable teaching and supplementary resources. The Churchill Archive is a resource for academics, researchers, students, teachers, writers and enthusiasts within a wide variety of fields. This collection of primary source material is a unique digital library offering new insight into a fascinating period of our past.
To complement the core content, the Churchill Archive offers an expanding range of additional materials, including pedagogical resources and secondary materials, plus editorially-selected links to other resources, video content, audio content, biographical and bibliographic databases.
This is the Churchill Archive Perpetual Purchase option. There is also a subscription option available.
Institutions should review the Detailed Pricing Document for pricing and full agreement terms.
The Churchill Archive is a unique resource that brings nearly 800,000 documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life online for the first time.
1874-1965
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Churchill Archive: Accessibility
The website conforms to level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
What is the maximum font size and does text re-flow when you enlarge the font?
Digitised archive documents can be enlarged within the image viewer using an on-site zoom function. The rest of the site can be enlarged using a browser zoom and text does reflow.
Can a user change background/foreground colours or contrasts? How?
Users can adjust the brightness/contrast within the image viewer using an on-site function.
Are there keyboard-only equivalents for all mouse actions? Where could I find a list? Are there short cut keys to reduce tabbing round links?
This has not been tested extensively across the site to date.
Is text marked up so it can be navigated in a meaningful way (for example by heading level)?
Text is styled and clearly organised by heading level.
Can text be selected and read by text-to-speech tools?
The original documents which are displayed through the image viewer as images do not all have transcripts, so some will not be able to be read by a text-to-speech tool. All other text across the site should be fine though, including all secondary content and all images with transcripts.
Are text descriptions available for all relevant graphics and images?
This is typically the case, although there are some images with no corresponding detailed transcript.
Where can I find guidance for all these features?
There is currently no guidance available online. Queries can be addressed to churchillarchive@bloomsbury.com
Unlimited concurrent access via IP recognition, the UK Access Management Federation, Athens and library cards, including remote user access via username.
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Cross-referencing via DOIs and OpenURLs are available. To enable this feature for your institution, please access your account information in Subscriber Services.
The MARC record for the Churchill Archive can be downloaded by library professionals free of charge. MARC records are provided by Bibliographic Data Solutions Ltd, experts in the provision of MARC to the library sector. The records are compliant with NACO and SACO, and LoC guidelines for MARC for updating databases. They contain LoC and Dewey call numbers, and are provided in MARC 21 format with MARC8 character encoding.
MARC records are located via this link: http://www.churchillarchive.com/librarians
The site internally uses two metadata standards:
The archive provides the option of library branding.
Export citations via Endnote.
Simple and advanced search options are available, to cater to all levels of users.
The taxonomy for the Churchill Archive comprises four facets:
COUNTER compliant usage statistics are available on a monthly basis to subscribing institutions and library consortia.
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Call 0207 631 5600, or email churchillarchive@bloomsbury.com.
Call 0207 631 5600, or email churchillarchive@bloomsbury.com.