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.
