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.
Includes reports, correspondence, the 'One in five scheme' and handbook on emergency welfare scheme.
Issue number 89.
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.
Describes all the work of W.V.S during the month of December.
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.
Includes general correspondence, and questionnaires and replies containing members' details.
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.
Includes general administration files.
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.
Includes general administration files.
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 book, C. W. Glover, was published in 1940 and explores various aspects of Civil Defence preparation.
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.
This file contains blank conference/S.I.O logs and information on the expected impact of radioactive fall-out
Includes papers relating to the Association of Civil Defence officers and the Civil Defence Association, as well as information about the re-organisation of Civil Defence in York in 1967.
Includes correspondence, committee meeting minutes, menu for the annual dinner, seating plan, childrens party list, and lists of income and expenditure.
Includes subject choice sheet and notes for demonstrations.
Correspondence regarding the Civil Defence Organisation, including the mission statement of the Civil Defence Organisation and Flamingo Land leaflet.
Correspondence regarding standard forms and re-organisation of the Civil Defence Corps. Also includes a guide to future syllabus and information on the Head of Sections.
Correspondence regarding social events. Also includes a transcript of the Sheriffs toast at the Civil Defence Dinner, balance sheet and committee meeting minutes.
This file contains correspondence concerning York Civil Defence Association - specifically, meetings and the group's proposed constitution.
This file contains a copy of the 2nd volume of The Civil Defence Newsletter, issue 33 of 'Alert' magazine.
This bundle consists of correpsondence concerning the York Civil Defence Association and the association's constitution.
This file contains items and correspondence relating to the everyday running of the York Civil Defence Association - for example; committee minutes and accounts.
Concerns the Association of Civil Defence Officers.
Papers relating to the training advisory panel and to local government in nuclear war.
Files relating to conferences and annual meetings.
Includes correspondence and copies of Civil Defence journals from York and elsewhere.
Includes correspondence.
Information about the Civil Defence Association annual dinners and other social activities, as well as expenditure and general meeting minutes.
Includes a copy of the address by the chairman at the annual conference, as well as correspondence regarding various exercises, agenda and minutes from the fourth annual meeting, committee reports, and invitation and agenda for a visit to Paris.
Includes papers of the organising committee, as well as competition awards and general correspondence.
Includes papers about the annual dinner, as well as menu, correspondence, receipt for ticket printing and copies of invitations.
This file contains the temporary register for York's Civil Defence department.
This book, C. W. Glover, was published in 1940 and explores various aspects of Civil Defence preparation.
This is the first five issues of a 'national journal for scientific intelligence officers', produced by The Scientific Advisers Branch of the Home Office. It contains information relating to the suspected impact of nuclear disaster.
This file contains correspondence between the Civil Defence Officer and a representative of British Railways, often related to Civil Defence training
This file contains advertisements for the Civil Defence exhibition and correspondence relating to this event.