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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1943 |
Request from Mrs F Dodd to be allowed to relinquish Navy Warlike Operations Allowance in aid of the war effort
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ADM 1/14639
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| 1940-1945 |
Gift of two aircraft ambulances from Girl Guides Association
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AIR 2/6052
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1951-1960 |
Wales: WVS: Civil Defence premises (with plan)
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BD 51/71
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| 1951-1955 |
Industrial salvage and recovery of waste materials: role of WVS for Civil Defence
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BT 177/1606
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1944 |
Special Emergency Shopping arrangements
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BT 64/182
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| 1941-1943 |
Make Do And Mend campaign: Advisory Committee
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BT 64/3024
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| 1943 |
Make Do And Mend liaison with Ministry of Information. Leaflets
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BT 64/3031
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| 1941-1943 |
Make Do And Mend campaign: general policy and purpose of campaign
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BT 64/3032
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| 1943 |
Make Do And Mend. Regional activity (summary)
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BT 64/3034
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| 1945 |
Make Do And Mend WVS shoe and clothing general policy re financing etc. (Liaison with Ministry of Health etc.)
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BT 64/3039
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| 1942 |
Check Trading. Appeal by housewife in connection with Order prohibiting poundage charges by Check Traders
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BT 64/85
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| 1917 |
Restriction on travelling of women and children by sea
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CAB 1/23/22
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1944 |
Request for provision of uniform for women auxiliaries employed with the Home Guard
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CAB 123/205
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1943 |
Presentation to HM the Queen of two ambulances provided by the Indian women of Fiji for the war effort
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CO 875/15/10
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| 1942-1944 |
Women's Periodicals: work of women in Africa, the West Indies, Malta, for the war effort
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CO 875/16/12
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| 1945 |
Inspectorate Memorandum 309 (General): 'Make Do And Mend' campaign
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ED 135/5
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1915 |
Evening classes in ambulance, home nursing and midwifery. Circular 296
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ED 22/58
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1916 |
Grants for instructions of housewives in economical cookery. Circular 352
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ED 22/59
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| 1918-1945 |
Development of technical education for women: liaison with National Federation of Women's Imstitutes; National Union of Townswomen's Guilds; Make Do And Mend etc.
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ED 46/293
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1939 |
Emergency services: staff details of Slough Centre, Dr Janet Vaughan (with photos)
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FD 1/5859
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1941 |
USA: Miss Doris Duke Cromwell's offer to finance 'Buy British Campaign'
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FO 371/26192
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| 1944 |
Relief: welfare of voluntary workers: Girl Guide relief units
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FO 371/41284
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| 1944 |
Visits to UK of representatives of Frenchwomen's Aid to RAF
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FO 660/316
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1942-1943 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme: equal compensation for men and women civil defence personnel
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HO 186/1038
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| 1941-1943 |
Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) Order 1941: exemption of police constables and women auxiliary police
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HO 186/1158
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| 1943 |
Exemption from fire prevention duties for women with family responsibilities
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HO 186/1163
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| 1941-1943 |
'Front Line': a history of Civil Defence Services issued by the Ministry of Home Security
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HO 186/1220
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| 1943 |
Release of civil defence female personnel to take up nursing and midwifery
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HO 186/1232
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| 1941-1943 |
Home Guard: recruitment of women
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HO 186/1234
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| 1942-1943 |
Rates of compensation for women fire guards under the Personal Injuries Scheme 1941
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HO 186/1315
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| 1940-1944 |
Civil defence personnel: payment during sickness or maternity leave
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HO 186/1466
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| 1939-1944 |
Civil Defence Volunteers: different rates of pay for men and women
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HO 186/1471
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| 1939-1944 |
Rates of pay for young men and women under 21 employed in civil defence services
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HO 186/1472
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| 1942-1944 |
Civil Defence Reserve: employment of women on operational duties
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HO 186/1543
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| 1942-1944 |
Fire prevention duties: exemption of nurses, midwives and hospital staff
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HO 186/1599
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| 1942-1944 |
Fire Guards: portraits
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HO 186/1649
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1940-1944 |
WVS Housewives Service: formation
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HO 186/1657
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1940-1944 |
Fire Guard Posters
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HO 186/1666
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| 1941-1944 |
Fire Guards at business premises: amenities required when both men and women are employed
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HO 186/1779
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| 1943-1944 |
Fire Guards at business premises: compulsory employment of women
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HO 186/1942
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| 1942-1944 |
Fire Guards: welfare arrangements for women
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HO 186/1943
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| 1942-1944 |
Fire Guards: appointment of women to supervisory posts
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HO 186/1944
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| 1940-1945 |
Unmarried dependants living as wives of civil defence personnel killed or injured whilst on duty: compensation
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HO 186/2089
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| 1944-1945 |
Parade of women from Civil Defence and National Fire Services on 6 December 1944; inspection by HM Queen Elizabeth
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HO 186/2307
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| 1944-1945 |
Address by Queen Elizabeth to women members of the civil defence services and Fire Guard
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HO 186/2451
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| 1939 |
Ambulance service: issue of men's combination suits to women drivers
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HO 186/26
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| 1946-1947 |
Defence Medal: Women's Legion Dock Feeding Organisation
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HO 186/2620
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| 1948 |
Defence Medal and Campaign Star
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HO 186/2677-2678
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| 1942-1949 |
Civil Defence Reserve: catering and domestic staff in Regions Columns Units
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HO 186/2703
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| 1939-1945 |
History of Civil Defence (by region)
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HO 186/2951-2961
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| 1941 |
Work for women in wartime
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HO 186/568
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| 1939 |
Employment of Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations to be regarded as National Service
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HO 186/65
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| 1938-1942 |
Training in home nursing
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HO 186/679
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| 1938-1942 |
First Aid Services: employment of youths and women
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HO 186/753
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| 1941-1942 |
Enrolment of women in the decontamination service
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HO 186/755
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| 1941-1942 |
Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory Enrolment) Orders 1941 and 1942: registration of men and women
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HO 186/816
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| 1942 |
Nuns: registration fro fire prevention duties
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HO 186/817
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| 1942 |
Women civil defence workers required to register for employment in industry
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HO 186/904
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| 1941-1942 |
Special policy to increase recruitment of women to civil defence and other war work
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HO 186/905
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| 1941-1942 |
Women: compulsory recruitment as fire guards
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HO 186/913
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| 1941-1943 |
Overalls and caps for women auxiliaries in First Aid Posts, Public Gas Cleansing Centres and mobile units
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HO 186/976
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| 1942-1943 |
Civil Defence (Compulsory Enrolment) Order 1942: registration of women for fire watching duties
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HO 207/144
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1939-1945 |
WVS: housewives service
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HO 207/164
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1943-1944 |
Voluntary fire guards: service beyond ages of 70 (men) and 60 (women)
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HO 207/224
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| 1940-1949 |
Interdepartmental Committee of Civil Defence Gallantry Awards: minutes and recommendations see list
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HO 250
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| 1950-1962 |
Civil Defence corps: recruitment of women
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HO 322/110
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| 1938-1939 |
Civil Defence: accommodation for Women's Organisations and London Regional Commissioner
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HO 45/18205/703228
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| 1948-1950 |
WVS and Civil Defence: report on work 1938-1948; miscellaneous activities in postwar period
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HO 45/24302/922185
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1945 |
Make Do And Mend: 3 posters
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INF 13/287
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| 1939-1946 |
Political cartoons: woman at work bench and woman at cocktail bar
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INF 3/1411
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1939-1946 |
War in Pictures: Home Front: women at rescue work
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INF 3/1477
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1939-1946 |
War in Pictures: War Effort: women making uniforms on sewing machines
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INF 3/1757
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Keep on saving coal' (housewife at kitchen sink) by marc Stone
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INF 3/179
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| 1939-1946 |
Japanese Home Front: showing Japanese women
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INF 3/1831-1840
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'The daughter who heaped on the coal' by H M Bateman
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INF 3/185
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Metal helps make tanks' (woman throwing away metal scrap which becomes a tank) by (Fougasse)
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INF 3/198
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Rubber helps make tyres' ( woman throwing away hot water bottles which become a tyre) by (Fougasse)
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INF 3/200
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Bones help make planes' (woman throwing away plate of bones which become an aeroplane) by (Fougasse)
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INF 3/201
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Up Housewives and at 'em - put out your paper, metal, bones....' (women marching, carrying a pennant) by Yates-Wilson
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INF 3/219
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: appeal to join the Home Salvage Corps, with cartoon figures of two women with munitions and scrap containers, by Fougasse
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INF 3/220
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 3 cartoon figures of women carrying a rifle, a balloon and a warship, by Fougasse
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INF 3/221
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 3 cartoon figures of women carrying an aeroplane, a shell and a machine gun, by Fougasse
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INF 3/222
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: Make Do And Mend: stuffed doll figure patching cloth
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INF 3/225
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: Make Do And Mend: running figure composed of needlework mending materials
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INF 3/226
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Keep mum - she's not so dumb!' (figure of blonde haired woman reclining, servicemen about her)
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INF 3/229
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Keep mum - she's not so dumb!' (soldier and woman)
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INF 3/244
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster:'---play your part in the battle of the Atlantic - if you know his sailing date, or any other fact about his ship, never mention it to anyone' (one male and two female heads)
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INF 3/245
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'He's sailing on the ---from---in s.s.... 'Three words that sank a ship' (two women talking)
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INF 3/246
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'You never know who may hear you - never discuss war work with anybody' (pencilled drawing, scene in ladies' hairdressers)
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INF 3/254
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'Keep mum - she's not so dumb!' (woman with sergeant air gunner)
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INF 3/270
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: 'You forget - but she remembers' (bar 'siren' seated on stool) by Whitear
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INF 3/271
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: cartoon of woman sneezing in a crowded shop, by H M Bateman
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INF 3/407B
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: cartoon scene of woman sneezing on entering a crowded lift, by H M Bateman
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INF 3/407K
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| 1939-1946 |
Poster: cartoon scene of woman sneezing in crowded railway carriage compartment, by H M Bateman
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INF 3/407L
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| 1939-1946 |
Drawing: Masedale: helmeted man rescuing women from raid debris
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INF 3/478
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| 1939-1946 |
Drawing: Brandon Ross: man rescuing women from debris, by (O'Connell)
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INF 3/486
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| 1939-1946 |
Drawings for magazines: many depicting women
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INF 3/661-1204
|
| 1944 |
Film fillers: Thank You Housewives
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INF 6/1811
|
| 1942 |
TV Commercials and Fillers: 'Care of Clothes' (domestic economy)
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INF 6/198
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| 1942 |
TV Commercials and Fillers: 'Chicken Feed' (food: waste)
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INF 6/199
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| 1940-1948 |
General Documentary Films: Miss Grant goes to the Door (alert for German parachutists)
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INF 6/429
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| 1940-1948 |
General Documentary Films: Any Old Iron (appeal for scrap metal) 1940
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INF 6/439
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| 1942-1949 |
General Documentary Films: 100,000,000 Women (women in USSR) 1942
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INF 6/458
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| 1942-1949 |
General Documentary Films: Dustbin Parade (salvage of scrap) 1942
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INF 6/472
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| 1941-1949 |
General Documentary Films: Two Cooks and a Cabbage 1941
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INF 6/489
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| 1941-1949 |
General Documentary Films: When the Pie was Opened (recipe for a vegetable pie) 1941
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INF 6/490
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| 1944 |
General Documentary Films: Patching and Darning
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INF 6/65
|
| 1943 |
Baking Trade Board: part-time women exclusively employed under the Rural Meat Pie Scheme
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LAB 11/1567
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1953-1955 |
Compulsory registration of women for whole-time Civil Defence: form of registration
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LAB 8/1770
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| 1951-1955 |
Civil Defence and allied services: arrangements for compulsory recruitment of women for whole-time Civil Defence duties
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LAB 8/2077
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1941-1945 |
Co-operation with National Union of Townswomen's Guilds in food advice campaign
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MAF 102/10
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| 1940-1946 |
Kitchen Front broadcasts
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MAF 102/2-8
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| 1940 |
Request by Lord Provost of Glasgow for introduction of housewives' broadcast on food supplies, marketing and prices
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MAF 102/51
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| 1941 |
Sugar for jam making and unrationed foods
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MAF 128/573
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| 1943 |
Cost of basic diet
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MAF 152/154
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| 1939-1945 |
Wartime (National) Food Survey see list
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MAF 156/398 0nwards
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| 1941-1942 |
'Knit for Russia' campaign: supply of wool etc. T 161/1425 1941-1943 Wartime Food Survey: reports
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MAF 156/742
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| 1945 |
How to plan meals for young children aged 1-7
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MAF 223/30
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| 1944 |
Nutrition manual
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MAF 223/39
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| 1939-1955 |
Kitchen waste: swill for animals
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MAF 35/527-552
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| 1940-1949 |
General Documentary Films: Casserole Cooking 1940 INF 6/484 1940-1941; Salvage of food waste: Salvage Advisory Committee of Women MPs 1951
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MAF 35/539
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| 1941-1963 |
Kitchen waste: swill for animals
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MAF 35/718-732
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| 1939-1945 |
Dig for Victory and Growmore leaflets (many) see list
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MAF 45
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| 1917-1919 |
National Kitchens
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MAF 60/310-312
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| 1918-1919 |
National Kitchen Advisory Committee: minutes of meetings
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MAF 60/329
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| 1937 |
Suggested reserves of tinned food in private households
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MAF 72/62
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| 1942-1943 |
'Growmore' clubs
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MAF 83/2886
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| 1943-1953 |
Domestic jam making: additional sugar ration
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MAF 99/1215-1216
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| 1942-1947 |
'Pie Schemes': feeding agricultural workers
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MAF 99/1731-1733
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| 1940 |
Sugar for fruit preserving: correspondence
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MAF 99/1803-1804
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| 1939-1940 |
Women's Peace Campaign: protest march against war
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MEPO 2/3130
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| 1939-1945 |
Numerous charities: listed by name: hospitals and women's comfort funds, collections by women
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MEPO 2/4053-4157
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| 1940-1941 |
Street collection: Banstead Ladies Darts Club
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MEPO 2/4068
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| 1940 |
Wooly comforts for the troops: enquiry as to age and duration
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MEPO 2/4069
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| 1940-1941 |
South Kenton and Preston Park Residents Association: 'Knitters Korner': charity collection
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MEPO 2/4127
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1918 |
19th general hospital: admissions: nursing sisters, soldiers' wives and women workers
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MH 106/1280
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|
HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1942-1944 |
Family diet: reports
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MH 56/262
|
| 1914 |
Government Committee on the Prevention and Relief of Distress: Women's Emergency Corps
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MH 57/183
|
| 1918 |
Ilford scheme for collecting household scraps for pig feeding
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NATS 1/689
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| 1940-1943 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: housewives injured in air raids
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PIN 15/2274
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| 1939-1940 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1939: application to wives sustaining war injuries
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PIN 15/2275
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| 1942-1943 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1941: award of injury pension to both husband and wife
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PIN 15/2307
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| 1939-1941 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: injured housewives requiring substitute household help
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PIN 15/2550
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| 1939-1940 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1939: allowances to injured persons in respect of wife and/or children
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PIN 15/2551
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| 1940-1947 |
Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: dependants living as wives
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PIN 15/2798
|
| 1942 |
Food: a survey of meals taken and attitudes towards wartime food amongst group of houswives....for Ministry of Food (Social Survey)
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RG 23/15
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| 1942 |
Dig for Victory: a study of the impact of the campaign to encourage vegetable growing in gardens and allotments, for the Ministry of Agriculture (Social Survey)
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RG 23/26
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| 1941 |
The Kitchen Front: a study of public reaction to the programme, for the Ministry of Food (Social Survey)
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RG 23/3
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| 1942 |
Investigation into household cooking habits for certain vegetables, with a section on the use of boiled milk, for the Ministry of Health (Social Survey)
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RG 23/30
|
| 1915 |
Minute...Grant from the Special Service Fund for...the payment of funeral expenses of Caroline Louisa Hill, a victim of a Zeppelin raid
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T 1/11848/26747/15
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| 1915 |
War Office. Payment of postage incurred in the distribution of gifts to the troops by HRH Princess Mary's Sailors' and Soldiers' Christmas Fund Committee
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T 1/11873/30316/15
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1939 |
Emergency ambulance services: training of women drivers
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T 161/1399/S44651
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1918-1923 |
Lynch, M, air-raid victim: compensation awarded to widower
|
T 164/28/13
|
| 1916 |
Women's War Savings conference
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T 172/273
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1961-1964 |
Civil Defence: courses in first aid and emergency home nursing for members of the public
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T 227/1530
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HOME FRONT
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War Effort
:
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| 1940-1943 |
Prisoners of war parcels: Mrs Ian Campbell's scheme
|
T 231/111-112
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HOME FRONT
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Civil Defence
:
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| 1942-1944 |
Home Guard: enrolment of women
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WO 199/401
|
| 1952-1955 |
Home Guard: employment of women
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WO 32/14943
|
| 1927 |
Official recognition of Women's Legion Motor Drivers as a voluntary reserve transport unit
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WO 32/4038-4039
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| 1940-1944 |
Use of women as Auxiliaries in the Home Guard
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WO 32/9423
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