The A.R.P News magazines and A.R.P & A.F.S reviews span from 1938-1942. The magazines covers the publicity of the war and the most recent news and war developments according to the month it was issued. Other aspects include: articles, recruitment publicit
Contains correspondence regarding staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.
Contains correspondence regarding staffing, equipment, first aid, materials and purchases.
Contains correspondence regarding wardens' posts, installation of relay systems,the building of public shelters and the disposal of unexploded bombs. Also includes a newspaper article regarding homelessness.
Contains correspondence regarding materials and the building of shelters, wardens' posts, circulars and traffic.
Contains correspondence regarding training exercises, first aid, equipment, gas masks and depots.
Contains meeting minutes, correspondence, equipment papers and papers relating to the Civil Defence Warden.
Stored in an envelope.
Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including termination of contract.
Paperwork relating to Prime Cost Contracts including renewal of contract.
Includes the relocation of the homeless into hostels.
Includes German press extracts and notes on German Civil Defence.
Contains information regarding the recruitment of volunteer wardens, warden circulars and general maintenance of shelters.
Contains correspondence regarding air raid wardens.
Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.
Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.
Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.
Contains correspondence regarding public air raid shelters.
How to protect yourselves from gas plus the effects of gas.
Contains information regarding the list of stables and correspondence on safety for animals.
Contains correspondence and information regarding the list of rest centres.
One poster shows a telegraphist in a wireless room ready to recieve signals. The other poster shows information relevant to signals for drivers and cyclists.
Includes correspondence surrounding the removal and reinstatment of a wall for access to install pumps for fire fighting purposes, supplementary water schemes and matters caused by the removal of the wall and laying of pipes.
Includes papers relating to the repair of fire prevention equipment such as fire hydrants and main water valves. Also includes some notes consider the reinbursements of repair work, financial arrangments for firemen and circumstances for paying war bonuse
The correspondence includes details of premises acquired in connection with the Auxiliary Fire Service and the claim for a grant for rent.
Includes lists of individuals to whom stirrup pumps have been issued by the Guildhall/are privately owned or have been issued for supplementary purposes for the fire services.
Parade orders for the National Fire Service Third Anniversary, North Eastern Regional.
Fire Force Commander agreements for the area of the British Sugar Corporation in York, schedule personnels, appliances and staff.
Correspondence includes details of paid staff for the Women's Voluntary Service, premises and finances.
Includes papers relating to Japanese money, a soldier's service pay book, a photograph of a Home Guard/soldier (presumably) parade, three general letters from the Home Guard and War Office to soldiers (depicting the Great War effort), a booklet of Great E
This file contains correspondence concerning the earmarking of premises for Civil Defence purposes and details of said premises.
Paperwork relating to accomodation clearance
This file contains correspondence relating to the earmarking of properties in York for use by the Civil Defence corps and details of said properties .
Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, recruitment, premises, and details of equipment for training.
Includes circulars relating to equipment, training, and the maintenance of existing air-raid shelters.
Includes circulars relating to vehicles, building work, training and publicity.
Includes circulars relating to air-raid shelters, building work, the fire service and equipment.
Includes a booklet entitled 'The control of Civil Defence Operations under fall-out conditions', fire service circulars and material relating to training.
Includes circulars relating to uniform, the fire service and training.
Includes circulars relating to building work, training and stocktaking.
Contains information regarding the Civil Defence Indusrial Circular, as well as a list of accommodation.
Includes circulars relating to training and scientific intelligence officers.
Contains information regarding technical literature and training.
Includes information relating to training, correspondence, the training syllabus, sick pay scheme and St. Johns Ambulance. Also includes a letter regarding legislation.
Contains information regarding wardens, the fire service and training premises.
Includes a booklet of amendments, correspondence relating to training, papers relating to civil defence uniform, and information about accommodation.
Contains information regarding Civil Defence organisation, vehicles, training, and the fire service.
Includes circulars relating to training and equipment, and a syllabus for the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme.
Contains information regarding batteries for walkie talkies, training, Remembrance Sunday and equipment.
Includes circulars relating to the fire service, casualties union, the Duke of Edinburghs award scheme for girls, uniform and equipment.
Contains information relating to payments and travelling, training premises, the provision of technical literature and a fire service circular.
Large file of various circulars including one relating to the disbandment of the Civil Defence Association, with a letter from the Queen.
Index to circulars, including papers relating to training, recruitment, correspondence and a drawing for building a gas chamber.
Includes information about Civil Defence courses at York, and letters of nomination.
This file includes general correspondences between the Civil Defence Officer and individuals from the local area.
This file mostly consists of documents related to the Civil Defence circulars, between 1967-1968.
This file contains details and correspondence relating to government-issued Civil Defence Circulars. Topics include: the wartime control structure for Greater London and the nominated conveners for each region.
Index of circulars, as well as correspondence, a diagram of a siren station and civil defence planning papers.
Includes an index, various circulars and associated correspondence.
Contains correspondence, circulars relating to training, and information about Remembrance Sunday.
Index to circulars, as well as correspondence, papers relating to sick pay, and papers relating to training.
Includes correspondence, papers relating to wireless training and helicopters (including images possibly taken from a book) and an appendix to circulars.
Contains details relating to the scheme aiming to educate one fifth of the women in the country on the hazards of nuclear warfare.
Monthly Narrative reports from December 1959 to December 1960 by Dorothy Kenning. Also includes letters and documents about the 'One-in-five' scheme.
Also includes associated correspondence.
Monthly and some regional narrative reports.
File contains monthly narrative and regional reports, training and meeting correspondence and newsletters.
Also includes an annual report detailing the WVS change of name to the Women's 'Royal' Voluntary Service.
This file contains monthly narrative reports for the Yorkshire branch of the service
The second details narrative reports and correspondence relating to the Women's Volunteer Service.
This file includes monthly narrative reports from the Women's Volunteer Service and correspondence with the Civil Defence Officer.
Also includes associated correspondence.
Also includes correspondence between Kenny and Cooke, the 'One in Five' course syllabus and applications for uniforms.
Also includes the W.V.S. bulletins.
File consists of monthly narrative reports for the Women's Volunteer Service for the Civil Defence. Paperwork also includes suggested contents for nursing chests, locations of badges to be worn, 'One in Five' scheme material, pamphlet material for protect
File regading an officers weekend, itinerary, booklet entitled 'The Hydrogen Bomb', and booklet entitled 'Civil Defence is Common Sense'.
Includes the syllabus of advanced training for the Gold Star tests for Civil Defence volunteers, as well as test and Warden Studies committee meeting and programme papers.
Correspondence relating to the establishment of the Civil Defence institute as a "professional body". Additionally, this file contains details on the institute's members (past and present), balance sheets and expenditure statements for 1949 and rules and
This file contains members' details and returned questionnaires - completed as applications for joining the Yorkshire branch of The Institute of Civil Defence.
This file contains general correspondence relating to the Civil Defence Ambulance Service as well as the service's progress reports from 1951, an agenda from Health Committee meetings and Ministry of Health Circulars (government policy) for the city of Y
This file contains documents on how York's casualty services (ambulance, first aid, hospital etc.) would be organised in the event of an emergency. Additionally, there is the usual correspondence relating to meetings surrounding the Civil Defence casualty
This file contains correspondence concerning the Civil Defence ambulance service and issues such as overtime pay.
This file contains details relating to a suggested syllabus for lectures given by the police to civil defence volunteers and a list of police boxes and pillars in the city.
This file consists of a Home Office correspondence relating to Civil Defence (police) regulations in 1952.
This file contains correspondence, engaging with Flaxton Rural District Counci, regarding issues such as Civil Defence instructors' courses.
This file consists of an invitation from the British Red Cross Society (York division) to the Civil Defence Officer and his response.