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Includes details of members of industries enrolled in civil defence.

Industry returns and correspondence sent to industries.

Contains information regarding the industrial civil defence.

Documents relating to Industrial Establishments.

Also includes a report of an exercise by the British Sugar Corporation, marking sheet and list of rules.

Includes papers relating to stores and equipment, files relating to the reconstruction of a road and car park and civil defence equipment papers.

Papers relating to civil defence stores and equipment.

This file contains general correspondence relating to flooding and the management of disasters. This also includes the booklet 'Management Techniques: Disaster Managament'.

This file contains equipment lists and information on purchases for rest centres.

This file consists of correspondence relating to the abandonment of the emergency planning strategy of using teachers and schools in the event of an emergency.

This file contains correspondence concerning the evacuation scheme and the prospect of York as a 'reception' area.

This file contains information on the Civil Defence Mortuary Service vehicles.

This file contains information on the strength of York's Civil Defence corps and the Civil Defence 'crash' plan.

This file contains information on prospective locations for York's air raid sirens

This file contains correspondence concerning public utility services and emergency arrangements.

This file contains correspondence concerning issues such as shelter management, hygiene and training.

This file contains correspondence concerning telephone centres and information such as preliminary reports on Civil Defence contorl centres.

Contains correspondence regarding distribution lists for 'local information' pamphlets.

This file includes information on the Civil Defence evacuation scheme (reception and billeting of evacuees) and welfare training.

This file contains correspondence relating to evacuation and billeting. There is a document issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government regarding the Civil Defence dispersal scheme and evacuation and care for the homeless.

Contains information relating to the education service and nuclear attack.

Includes papers regarding the sale of surplus Civil Defence supplies, correspondence and receipts.

This file contains plans for a proposed bomb hut site on Bull Lane as well as correspondence regarding the plans and the potential costs and obstacles of erecting the structure. Additionally, this file contains a Home Office leaflet explaining how to trai

This file contains specific information relating to the organisation of emergency mortuaries - usually in correspondent form.

Includes papers relating to annual inspections and reviews of the Civil Defence Corps.

Correspondence and reports relating to the annual inspections of the Civil Defence Corps.

Narrative discussing some of the review recommendations made by the Working Party on the Civil Defence Corps.

Includes an annual inspection report and officer correspondence regarding inspections.

This file contains correspondence relating to the annual inspections of the Civil Defence corps and a provisional inspection programme (1968).

The report covers all sectors such as recruitment, reconnaissance, wardens, rescue, ambulance and first-aid, welfare, training and operational planning.

Also includes correspondence and blank bomb logs.

This file includes information about and correspondence concerning house-to-house canvasing for Civil Defence, order forms for equipment to assist with this and maps for canvasing areas.

A guide that breaks down the Civil Defences attitude to the H-Bomb (nuclear weaponry), complete with press campaigns and post-nuclear guidance. Also includes recruitment publicity for the Civil Defence Corps and and Auxiliary Fire Service, and a campaign

Monthly numbers showing the strength of the Civil Defence Corporation in the region of the year 1958.

Provides information surrounding the air operations in South East Asia from the 3rd of May 1945 to the 12th September 1945. The article also covers air and army operations in Burma from the 16th November 1943 to 12th September 1945.

File contains a committee review of the functions of the future members of the Civil Defence Corps in Scotland. The proposals include developing a nucleus of highly trained volunteers in order to relieve the economic strains of the country. Sub-sections i

Correspondence about the reorganisation of the Civil Defence Corps, new training, badges and new performance tests.

A Jakar branded ruler.

A Jakar branded ruler.

A print of the magazine 'Scientific American' in which the issue consists of radiation articles, letters, illustrations, games, advertisements, defence publicity and scientific information surrounding molecules and isotopes.

Includes information about an accommodation clearance register, industrial premises register and applications for reservations.

Contains information relevant to the civil defence.

Contains details relevant to a report of recommendations for further improvements in the Civil Defence Corps.

Contains correspondence regarding the returns of the Civil Defence department, York.

Contains correspondence regarding the returns of the Civil Defence department, York.

Includes files relating to toxic agents, features of an atomic bomb, radioactive products, a report on the British mission to Japan and the Windscale accident.

Contains information regarding the effects of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This booklet, issued by the Ministry of Health, contains information relating to the safe use of such materials when on public display.

This book contains 'essays on the immediate treatment of war wounds' and is dated as being a reprinted edition from 1941.

This American book discusses subjects such as the 'legislative requirements to implement the Civil Defence program' and 'the proposed organisation of Civil Defence' - described as the Hopley Report of 1948.

This journal 'Civil Defence and the Chemist' amongst other subjects related to the study of chemistry.

This booklet contains information on warning systems and categorisation of zones, in the event of a nuclear disaster.

This, Volume 1 & number 1, contains information relating to the Health Physics Society, such as calculating radiation doses.

This book contains information on how to deal with the aftermath of a crash - such as the release of the occupant.

This file contains correspondence concerning 'the scientific aspects of Civil Defence', such as chemical warfare.

These files contain correspondence that concern to university courses, relating to 'Detection and Identification of War Gases', as well as a syllabus for this.

Concerns air raid precautions and possible casualty aggregations.

Includes articles relating to effects of neutron and space bombs.

Deposition measurements in Exercise Fallex 62.

Newspaper and magazine articles relating to biological warfare.

Booklets and articles relating to effects of atomic warfare.

Includes graphs and images.

Also relates to problems with radiation.

Paperwork relating to the nuclear accident at Windscale and the tests completed, dangers to the surrounding area, figures showing food/drink contamination, tests for radioactivity in milk and herbage. Newspaper articles discussing the accident and reports

A book with information regarding the use of radioactive products with sheets of technical bulletins.

This file contains a collection of letter correspondence regarding the city's planned strategy in the event of an attack with toxic agents. Such as, the decontamination of foodstuffs and the detection of chemical agents.

Year books and reports of the Civil Defence department and York Libraries.