Allen Packwood

Allen Packwood is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and the director of the Churchill Archives Centre. Allen was cocurator of "Churchill and the Great Republic," a Library of Congress exhibition and of "Churchill: The Power of Words," a display at the Morgan Library in New York from June through September 2012.

Allen's job has taken him to Bermuda, Cuba, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and in 2011 he accompanied Churchill's granddaughter Celia Sandys and Churchill's daughter Lady Soames on a "Chasing Churchill" Mediterranean tour. He works closely with the International Churchill Society and with the Estate of Winston S. Churchill.

Allen edited the recent guide to the Churchill Archives Centre, and has lectured extensively on Churchill in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded an OBE for services to the archives and scholarship in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours.