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War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential scientists of the modern era, will today be placed in the care of the Churchill Archives Centre.

Margaret Thatcher’s isolation over Westland and the US bombing of Libya – as well as fears about the standards of her driving – are among the subjects revealed within 40,000 pages of her papers opening to the public today at the Churchill Archives Centre.

Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNAÌýall feature in the latest film to celebrate Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary.Ìý

Several members of the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ have been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced today.

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̽»¨Ö±²¥diaries of Captain Scott’s widow – and the papers of her second husband, Lord KennetÌý– will be made accessible to researchers at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library following their acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax.

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches,Ìýletters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register.

Massive unemployment, the end of the miners’ strike and a controversial decision to try and exclude the Prime Minister from a Falklands War memorial service at St Paul’s are some of the issues revealed by the release of Margaret Thatcher’s personal papers for 1985.

Margaret Thatcher’s previously unpublishedÌýmemoir of the Falklands War has been acquired for the nation - after Arts Council England today announced the acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax of papers from the estate of the former Prime Minister.

Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous ‘enemy within’ rhetoric to include not only the striking miners but also the wider Labour movement and Party.

KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ – will today open to the public for the first time.