Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1946-1986 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1490 bundles
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Name of creator
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes accommodation clearance registers, papers regarding billeting, annual reports, papers relating to atomic warfare, civil defence handbooks, general preparations for a nuclear attack, papers relating to the British Association, circulars, York Civil Defence Association, Civil Defence committee minutes, civil protection, competitions, conference papers, papers regarding Control Centres, correspondence files of Arthur Cooke (Civil Defence officer), general correspondence files, demonstration and protest papers, papers regarding Civil Defence equipment, evacuations scheme, exercises and training courses, mass experiments, financial papers (including insurance files), papers relating to the Fire Service, emergency feeding plans, Home Defence papers and correspondence, Head Office files, hospital organisation files, papers relating to Civil Defence in industry and infrastructure, inspection files, membership lists, copies of the Civil Defence Acts, year books, copies of the Civil Defence Officers Journal, Ministry of Health papers, minutes of the Civil Defence committee, papers of the Association of Municipal Corporations, reports and pamphlets relating to the nuclear threat, papers regarding nuclear tests, observations papers, premises files, publicity and recruitment files, papers regarding Hungarian refugees in York, remembrance files, staff resignation and transfer files, papers relating to the Scientific Intelligence Officers and Sector Controllers, shelter files, siren installation, staff papers, technical reconnaisance papers, correspondence with the Town Clerk, papers regarding Civil Defence vehicles, warden's files, the role of the Women's Voluntary Service, and the role of the Yorkshire Yeomanry.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; the International Standard Archival Authority Record ISAAR(CPF), 1996 and National Council on Archives Rules on the construction of personal, place and corporate names, 1997.
Conditions governing reproduction
Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Language of material
- English