his life before 1945 remained in family ownership (though housed in the Archives Centre) until 1995, when they were bought for the nation. The grant to purchase the papers included funding for a dedicated team of archivists to catalogue them. The catalogue took a team of five archivists five years to complete. It was finished at the end of 2000 and was made available online 12 months later. More recently, the Churchill Papers have been digitised. The Centre continued to collect personal papers from other figures from the fields of politics, the military, diplomacy, technology and science. By the end of the 20th century it was running out of storage space. In 1997, when Margaret Thatcher gave her papers to the Centre, funding was raised to build a new wing to house them and to enable the Centre to continue adding to its collections in the 21st century. The Archives Centre has collaborated with organisations around the world on projects and exhibitions about Winston Churchill. A joint exhibition was held with the Library of Congress. In 2006, catalogues to all the collections except those of Churchill and Thatcher were made available on the Cambridge-based Janus webserver. The Directors of the Archives Centre have been as follows: Correlli Barnett, 1977–1995 Piers Brendon, 1995–2001 Allen George Packwood, 2001–Present See also Churchill War Rooms in Westminster The Churchill Centre and Churchill Museum at the War Rooms Chartwell – Churchill's family home, now administered by the National Trust References External links Churchill Archives Centre home page Churchill: World War Two Speeches - UK Parliament Living Heritage The Churchill Papers Online Catalogue Bloomsbury Academic's Digital Churchill Archive Archivesearch online catalogues for all other collections British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) Churchill College The Churchill Centre in Washington D.C. Churchill War Rooms The National Archives, UK Archives in Cambridgeshire Churchill College, Cambridge Organisations based in Cambridge Monuments and memorials to Winston Churchill Oral history