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Archival description
Ministry of Health papers
Y/ORD/4/7/68 · File · 1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes letters and reports concerning the Ministry of Health in wartime and other allied departments. Also includes a report on Civil Defence expenditure for 1967/1968.

Minutes
Y/ORD/4/7/69 · Sub-series · 1949-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Minutes of meetings of the Civil Defence Assocation, including committee meetings.

Y/ORD/4/7/69/12 · File · 1960-1961
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a list of Council members, Civil Defence Comittee agendas, summary of minutes, Salaries committee agenda and papers regarding the recruitment to Civil Defence.

Working party minutes
Y/ORD/4/7/69/17 · File · 25 May 1966
Part of York Civic Archive

Paper relays information concerning who attended the meeting and the department they represent as well as a general description of the meeting and the points discussed.

Annual Meeting minutes
Y/ORD/4/7/69/4 · File · 1955-1957
Part of York Civic Archive

Agendas and minutes for meetings. Also includes a paper on 'Apathy and Civil Defence', rules of the Association, 1957 Civil Defence diary, invitation to a meeting, and 1955 annual report.

Civil defence handbooks
Y/ORD/4/7/7 · Sub-series · 1955-1962
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes manuals relating to nuclear weapons, line communication, field cable construction, Army health and rescues.

The Atom: Friend or Foe?
Y/ORD/4/7/72/4 · Item · 1962
Part of York Civic Archive

Translated by T. Schoeters. Book by Charles-Noël Martin about the applications of the atom, and the nuclear bomb.

Surviving Doomsday
Y/ORD/4/7/72/9 · Item · 1977
Part of York Civic Archive

Covers variety of subjects including biological warfare, chemical warfare, nuclear weapons, the effects of radiation, and survival.

Nuclear tests
Y/ORD/4/7/73 · Sub-series · 1956-1957
Part of York Civic Archive

Reports on the Nevada test detonation in May 1955, and the tests in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950s.

Cue For Survival
Y/ORD/4/7/73/1 · Item · 1956
Part of York Civic Archive

Report on the Nevada test detonation in May 1955 by the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Civil Defence Observations
Y/ORD/4/7/74 · Sub-series · 1952-1956
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes a book about the weather and ways to measure it, and correspondence between the Royal Observer Corps and the Home Guard.

Y/ORD/4/7/76 · Sub-series · 1950-1967
Part of York Civic Archive

Includes papers relating to premises owned or hired by the York Civil Defence Association. Also includes plans and maps relating to the construction of garages for the Civil Defence Corps.

Reconstruction of Premises
Y/ORD/4/7/76/10 · File · 1959-1960
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence regarding the new Civil Defence premises, including extract from minutes of Finance and General Purposes Committee, and Civil Defence Officers HQ proposal to increase accomodation.

Premises papers
Y/ORD/4/7/76/12 · File · 1961
Part of York Civic Archive

Civil Defence papers relating to building work and letters hiring premises.

Premises
Y/ORD/4/7/76/16 · File · 1961-1968
Part of York Civic Archive

This file consists of correspondence relating to the possibility of new Municipal Offices; space requirements for a potential Civil Defence premises and a plan of the then current premises.

Premises: Admin
Y/ORD/4/7/76/17 · File · 1951
Part of York Civic Archive

This file contains correspondence that relates to change of use for certain premises. It also includes a plan of part of the city of York (circa. Markham Crescent).

Premises correspondence
Y/ORD/4/7/76/5 · File · 1957
Part of York Civic Archive

Correspondence regarding the hiring ofcertain premises for Civil Defence. Also includes reports about the premises.

Publicity
Y/ORD/4/7/77/10 · File · 1949-1950
Part of York Civic Archive

Information relating to the general publicity of the civil defence service. Specifically, correspondence and advertisements - such as, suggested distribution of films and recruitment posters