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Air raid precautions

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

 File

"Clementine Churchill": general information on shelters and air raids, 1940-44, 1967-02 - 1974-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/95
Scope and Contents

Includes details of visits to MS's anti-aircraft battery by CSC and Winston Churchill, reminiscences of CSC's visits to shelters and a copy of a letter from CSC to Churchill on the work of MS's battery, June 1944.

Dates: 1967-02 - 1974-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Papers on naval subjects, 1915

Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 5/23
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: shipbuilding figures; wireless policy; squadrons abroad for trade protection; totals of ships sunk by German submarines and losses among German and Turkish submarines; the speed and armaments of German submarines; the need to simplify correspondence between the Admiralty and the dockyards; possible zeppelin attacks on London; steady pressure strategy.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Wartime work, 1925 - 1978

Reference Code: GBR/0014/LDBA 1
Scope and Contents

Includes: Ministry of Home Security papers on design of air raid shelters; Home Office Civil Defence Research Committee minutes; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research papers on alternative construction methods; papers on bombing trials for shelters and on protection for factories and offices; road research reports; data on damage to reinforced concrete and steel framed buildings; report on damage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki [Japan].

Dates: 1925 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of a few files, which are still closed (details are available in the catalogue), the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.