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Article: Lord Rothschild defends Churchill archive purchase
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 29, 1995
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The Heritage Lottery Fund did not buy the copyright to the
Churchill archive because it would have driven up the price, Lord
Rothschild, the fund's chairman, said yesterday.
He spoke out as the row continued over the purchase of the
archive from Winston Churchill, Tory MP for Davyhulme and Sir
Winston's grandson, with pounds 12.5m of lottery money.
Lord Rothschild said the collection had been valued at more than
pounds 30m excluding copyright, pounds 10m of which was for the
state papers which were, until then, the subject of legal dispute
over whether the Churchill family or the Crown owned them.
Lord Rothschild said: "We were willing to buy the archive
provided there was no attributable ...