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WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
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Women's Voluntary Services (WVS)
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| 1945 |
Future of the WVS
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ADM 1/17792
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| 1957-1960 |
Welfare: employment of WVS personnel in clubs, leave centres and institutes overseas
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AIR 2/14659-14660
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| 1962-1968 |
WRVS: correspondence with Air Ministry
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AIR 20/11247
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| 1957-1974 |
Wales: Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence: general correspondence
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BD 18/1512-1513
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| 1949-1969 |
Wales: facilities provided in hospitals by WVS
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BD 18/2190-2191
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| 1950-1967 |
Wales: Cardiff: WVS: storage accommodation (with plans)
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BD 51/49-50
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| 1951-1968 |
Wales: Cardiff: WVS: paid staff
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BD 51/51
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| 1950-1969 |
Wales: WVS
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BD 51/70
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| 1951-1960 |
Wales: WVS: Civil Defence premises (with plan)
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BD 51/71
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| 1957-1968 |
WVS: holiday schemes for children and tired mothers
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BN 29/76
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| 1957-1968 |
WVS: annual reports
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BN 29/77
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| 1959-1964 |
WVS: general correspondence
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BN 29/78
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| 1964-1965 |
WVS: holiday schemes for tired mothers
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BN 29/79
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| 1968 |
WVS: request to transfer expenditure to Child Care Vote
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BN 29/80
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| 1967-1969 |
WVS: assistance to approved schools and remand homes
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BN 29/81
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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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| 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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| 1938-1943 |
Draft chapter on WVS for civil defence
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CAB 102/781
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| 1939-1945 |
The Under-Fives Department of the WVS
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CAB 102/782
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| 1945-1951 |
The WVS
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CAB 124/914
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| 1957-1962 |
WVS: minutes of meetings
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DEFE 7/1029
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| 1940-1948 |
Children's Overseas Reception Board: 113 files: see list
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DO 131
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| 1935-1945 |
Provision of school meals: WVS
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ED 50/214
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| 1953 |
Germany (West): request from WVS about a German publication 'The Island'
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FO 371/103958
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| 1939 |
Appointment of HM Queen Elizabeth as President of the WVS
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HO 186/102
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| 1939 |
WVS: memorandum on organisation and staff
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HO 186/103
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| 1938-1939 |
WVS: notification to local authorities of duties and functions
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HO 186/104
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| 1938 |
WVS: general functions and regional arrangements
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HO 186/105
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| 1938 |
WVS: personnel requirements
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HO 186/106
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| 1939 |
WVS: co-operation with local authorities
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HO 186/107
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| 1939 |
WVS: material for speeches on women's place in national service
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HO 186/108
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| 1942-1943 |
Official Secrets Act: application to invasion defence officers and members of the WVS
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HO 186/1184
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| 1944 |
WVS: entitlement to wear war service chevrons
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HO 186/1350
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| 1939-1944 |
WVS: compensation for injuries sustained whilst on duty
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HO 186/1436
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| 1943-1944 |
WVS: issue of service chevrons
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HO 186/1529
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| 1940-1944 |
WVS: issue of steel helmets
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HO 186/1590
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| 1939-1944 |
WVS: first annual report June 1939 and draft annual report for 1943
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HO 186/1654
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| 1939-1944 |
WVS: enrolment statistics
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HO 186/1655
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| 1941-1944 |
WVS: grant-aided uniforms
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HO 186/1656
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| 1940-1944 |
WVS Housewives Service: formation
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HO 186/1657
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| 1939-1944 |
WVS: training schemes
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HO 186/1804
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| 1944 |
WVS: air raid incident inquiry points: manning by members of the WVS
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HO 186/1805
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| 1942-1944 |
WVS: authorised volunteer car pool journeys: reports of conferences
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HO 186/1813
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| 1939-1945 |
WVS: office accommodation and equipment
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HO 186/2236
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| 1939-1945 |
WVS: compensation for injuries
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HO 186/2237
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| 1940-1945 |
WVS: armlets
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HO 186/2238
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| 1938-1945 |
WVS: position under War Charities Act
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HO 186/2239
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| 1944-1945 |
WVS picture sets entitled 'One Million Women': issue
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HO 186/2241
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| 1938-1945 |
WVS in wartime and co-operation with civil defence services: activities in Region 2
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HO 186/2327
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| 1938-1945 |
WVS as part of the civil defence service
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HO 186/2328
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| 1939-1956 |
WVS member injured on 29 August 1939 on way to take up ARP duty: Treasury approved compensation under Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1939
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HO 186/2765
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| 1938-1940 |
WVS: functions of WVS
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HO 186/314
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| 1938-1941 |
WVS: work for women during wartime
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HO 186/568
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| 1938-1941 |
WVS: organisation to be known as Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence
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HO 186/569
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| 1938-1941 |
WVS: organisation and functions in Scotland
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HO 186/570
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| 1938-1941 |
WVS: local expenditure on accommodation and equipment
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HO 186/571
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| 1940-1941 |
WVS: 'Communal Feeding in War Time': leaflet prepared by WVS for Civil Defence
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HO 186/572
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| 1941-1943 |
Approval of uniforms and badges for the WVS
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HO 186/573
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| 1938-1941 |
Extension of WVS activities to Northern Ireland
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HO 186/574
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| 1942 |
'Women's Work in Civil Defence': memorandum from WVS
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HO 199/401
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| 1940 |
WVS: weekly confidential letters
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HO 199/452
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| 1939-1945 |
WVS: housewives service
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HO 207/164
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| 1943 |
WVS: enquiry bureau officers: functions
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HO 207/171
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| 1941-1945 |
Honours WVS (closed 75 years)
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HO 207/329
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| 1941-1942 |
Shelter welfare work: assistance by WVS
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HO 207/388
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| 1956-1957 |
Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board (Suez): reports from the WVS
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HO 240/23
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| 1938-1949 |
WVS: setting up; appointments; reports of activities; consideration of role of WVS and women's institutes after the Second World War
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HO 356/2-3
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| 1964-1972 |
Women's Royal Voluntary Services
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HO 361/53
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| 1961-1970 |
WRVS: 'Working with Children' reports
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HO 361/96
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| 1934-1938 |
Creation of the Women's Voluntary Service
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HO 45/17580/700223
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| 1939 |
Use of private cars by WVS
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HO 45/18316/820592
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| 1922-1947 |
After-care of young offenders: welfare assistance by WVS
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HO 45/20929/432738
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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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| 1958-1960 |
Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board (Suez): WVS project at Arden Hotel, Leamington Spa
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HP 240/52
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| 1960-1961 |
General Documentary Films: Lady Reading and the WVS 1961
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INF 6/1370
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| 1949 |
'Willing Hands' (WVS) 1944: film production
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INF 6/638
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| 1947-1950 |
European Voluntary Workers: liaison with WVS
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LAB 26/235
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| 1951 |
Eviction and suspended possession: suggestion that County Court Judges be given power to place families who have been evicted under the care of the WVS
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LCO 2/4993
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| 1941-1946 |
WVS for Civil Defence: correspondence and reports
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MAF 102/11-13
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| 1945 |
Disposal of WVS stocks of food
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MAF 900/128
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| 1952-1954 |
Coronation 1953: arrangements with WVS for feeding of public
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MAF 99/1883
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| 1951-1965 |
Emergency feeding arrangements: liaison with WVS
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MAF 99/1900-1901
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| 1945 |
Lady Reading's interview with the Minister: stocks of food held by the WVS
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MAF 99/512
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| 1945 |
NSPCC: copies of draft circulars from the Society and WVS: memoranda by Home Office
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MH 102/2180
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| 1950 |
Emigration of children by voluntary organisations: report by WVS official on visit to Autralia and New Zealand
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MH 102/2334
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| 1938-1949 |
WVS: organisation and functions; bulletins and correspondence
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MH 130/277
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| 1962-1971 |
Policy on hospital club and canteen voluntary workers: WVS
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MH 166/440
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| 1942-1949 |
Children: shoe and clothing exchanges: WVS scheme
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MH 55/1643
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| 1946 |
'Godmother' scheme for evacuated children organised by the WVS
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MH 55/1646
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| 1960 |
Mother and baby clubs and play centres provided by the WVS
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MH 55/2392
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| 1941-1945 |
Kent: storage of clothing at WVS premises
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MH 76/475
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| 1943 |
Kent: WVS premises: protection of clothing supplies against theft
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MH 76/476
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| 1940-1948 |
Kent: WVS furniture, domestic equipment and stores
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MH 76/478
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| 1940-1945 |
Kent: WVS transport: general administration
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MH 76/479
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| 1942-1948 |
Kent: WVS Volunteer Car Pool: authorisation for journeys
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MH 76/480
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| 1941 |
Kent: WVS regional food stores
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MH 76/481
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| 1943-1944 |
Kent: WVS incident enquiry points
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MH 76/482
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| 1945-1946 |
Kent: WVS Volunteer Car Pool: payment of mileage expenses
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MH 76/483
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| 1950-1953 |
Kent: WVS regional monthly imprest
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MH 76/484
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| 1939 |
WVS (Air Raid Precautions)
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MH 79/167
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| 1943-1944 |
WVS: chevrons
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MH 79/468
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| 1945 |
Rehabilitation: Danish WVS children's scheme
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MH 79/569
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| 1947-1967 |
The Aelbryn WVS Hostel for Old People, Llanelly: administration
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MH 96/1573
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| 1950-1963 |
WVS activities: 'meals on wheels' services
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MH96/1623
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| 1959-1961 |
WVS: long service medal
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MINT 20/2820
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| 1964-1966 |
WVS: long service medal and clasp
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MINT 20/3218
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| 1940-1948 |
Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939 Section 3: WVS
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PIN 15/2777
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| 1949-1972 |
Determination of Insurability: WRVS: differentiation between employees and volunteers
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PIN 49/211
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| 1950 |
Correspondence Home Office: WVS
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PRO 17/126
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| 1944-1946 |
Offer of secondhand surplus stores to the WVS for distribution to people who were 'blitzed' during the war
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T 161/1248
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| 1938-1946 |
Organisation of WVS
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T 162/895/E36755/1-3
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| 1940 |
Members of WVS: paid members eligible for compensation under appropriate Workmen's Compensation Acts, but not unpaid members employed on administrative side
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T 164/187/22
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| 1968-1969 |
Decimal Currency Board: liaison with the WRVS on provision of assistance to old people on decimalisation
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T 193/290
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| 1945-1959 |
WVS serving overseas: conditions of service and financial arrangements
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T 213/526
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| 1946-1960 |
WVS Organisation: appointments, cost and conditions of service
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T 221/981-983
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| 1948-1950 |
Application for loan from Women's Home Industries Ltd (WVS)
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T 228/201
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| 1957-1968 |
Civil Defence Long Service Medal: general papers and early WVS Medals papers and designs
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T 333/111-114
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| 1959-1965 |
WVS Medal: general papers and designs
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T 333/119-121
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| 1951 |
Festival of Britain: photographs: briefing of WVS 3048-3052
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WORK 25/205
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