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Group of air raid precautions and civil defence publications 1935-1954.

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72 items : illustrations ; various sizes

Notes:
Documents published primarily between 1935 and 1942 by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London and issued by the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office. Includes some pamphlets issued from the Lord Privy Seal's Office.
Included are the following monographs: "The air Defence of Britain, (1938) and "Civil Defence" (1938).
Items 55-70 bound together in a single v.
Item 1. Air defence of Britain -- item 2. Basic training in air raid precautions -- item 3. Your home as an air raid shelter -- item 4. Camouflage of large installations -- item 5. Civil defence : a practical manual presenting with working drawings the methods required for adequate protection against aerial attack / Glover, Charles William -- item 6. Air raid precautions : directions for the erection and sinking of the galvanised corrugated steel shelter (standard and small) -- item 7. Anti-gas precautions and first aid for air raid casualties -- item. 8. Protection of your home against air raids -- item 9. Air raid precautions in museums, picture galleries and libraries -- item 10. Air raid precautions in factories and business premises -- item 11. Air raid precautions for animals. item 12. Duties of air raid wardens -- item 13. Anti-gas protection of babies and young children -- item 14. Decontamination of clothing, including oilskin anti-gas clothing and equipment, from blister gases -- item 15. Information committees -- item 16. War emergency : information and instructions -- item 17. Provision of air raid shelters in basements -- item 18. Choice and adaptation of shelter in houses -- item 19. Air raid shelters : report of the Lord Privy Seal's Conference -- item 20. A.R.P. Department Circular no. 275/1939 -- item 21. Manual for officers responsible for A.R.P. training -- item 22. Care and repair of respirators -- item 23. War zone courts -- item 24. Consolidated instructions to invasion committees in England and Wales -- item 25. Treatment of casualties and decontamination of personnel -- item 26. Gas detection and identification service -- item 27. Air raid precautions -- item 28. Statutory rules and orders. 1941 no. 1411, Emergency powers (defence) : fire precautions -- item 29. Statutory rules and orders. 1940 no. 1444, Emergency powers (defence) : war zone courts -- item. 30. Statutory rules and orders. 1940 no. 1744/L.29, Emergency powers (defence) : war zone courts, England -- item 31. Statutory rules and orders. 1942 no. 1654, Emergency powers (defence) : civil defence -- item 32. Statutory rules and orders. 1942 no. 1655, Emergency powers (defence) : fire precautions -- item 33. Air raid precautions : what you can do -- item 34. Advising the public in the event of invasion -- item 35. Fire prevention -- item 36. A.R.P. and industry : suggestions for draft air raid precautions scheme for private undertakings / by J. Claxton -- item 37. Explanatory memorandum for the guidance of appropriate authorities, occupiers of factories, offices, shops, and other business premises, and persons working at those premises -- item 38. Your food in war-time -- item 39. Some things you should know if war should come -- item 40. Your gas mask : how to keep it and how to use it ; Masking your windows -- item 41. Fire prevention : fire watchers and fire bomb parties -- item 42. Fire prevention : normal minimum standards for trade and industry. item 43. Rescue parties and clearance of debris -- item 44. Air raid precautions : galvanised corrugated steel shelters : variations on the standard unit -- item 45. Directions for the erection of domestic surface shelters -- item 46. Supplement to the explanatory memorandum issued on 12th September, 1941, by the Ministry of Home Security and the Scottish Home Department -- item 47. Statutory rules and orders. 1941 no. 1834, Emergency powers (Defence) : civil defence -- item 48. Statutory rules and orders. 1941 no. 1412, Emergency powers (defence) : civil defence -- item 49. Pamphlet on shelter from air attack -- item 50. Sectional steel shelters : report upon investigations of the standard of protection afforded -- item. 51. Bomb resisting shelters -- item 52. Structural defence -- item 53. Food control (national rationing) : instructions to food control committees, part 1 -- item 54. Emergency dining centres and community food supply. item 55. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Ambulance section -- item 56. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Welfare section -- item 57. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Welfare section (emergency feeding) -- item 58. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Welfare section (improvisation of large scale cooking equipment -- item 59. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Warden section -- item 60. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Headquarters section -- item 61. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Organisation of civil defence and allied services -- item 62. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Principles of damage control -- item 63. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 1, Reconnaissance and reporting -- item 64. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 2, Basic chemical warfare -- item 65. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 2, Basic fire fighting -- item 66. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 2, Basic first aid -- item 67. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 2, Basic rescue -- item 68. Civil defence : manual of basic training. v. 2, Basic methods of protection against high explosive missiles -- item 69. Atomic warfare -- item 70. Civil defence : rescue manual -- item 71. Pamphlet on garden trenches -- item 72. [Letter, with reply card and insert, from Major R.A.B. Smith, Director of the Cement and Concrete Association to J.B. Morrell].
Library copies: ownership stamps and bookplates of the York Public Library Reference Dept.

Exhibitions:

Items 1-5 Exhibited: "Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale = Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War", Centre canadien d'architecture, Apr. 12-Sept. 18, 2011.
Items 1-5 : exhibited: "Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale = Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War", Centre canadien d'architecture, Apr. 12-Sept. 18, 2011.

Summary:

Publications address Britain's civil defence needs through basic training manuals and emergency instruction leaflets. Topics include design and construction of new shelters as well as adaptation of existing buildings, camouflage of large constructions, lighting restrictions, fire precautions, gas detection, protection of buildings against aerial attack and gas damage, structural effects of nuclear blast, decontamination, and rescue.

Subject:

Air raid wardens England.
Civil defense England.
World War, 1939-1945.
Air defenses England.
Bombing, Aerial England.
Building, Bombproof Government policy Great Britain.
Air raid shelters Government policy Great Britain.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous War use.
Protection civile Angleterre.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945.
Défense aérienne Angleterre.
Bombardement aérien Angleterre.
Construction à l'épreuve des bombes Politique gouvernementale Grande-Bretagne.
Abris antiaériens Politique gouvernementale Grande-Bretagne.
Gaz de combat.
Civil defense.
Bombing, Aerial.
Air raid wardens.
Air defenses.
Great Britain Air defenses, Civil Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Great Britain.
England.

Form/genre:

Handbooks.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals.

Added entries:

Smith, R. A. B.
Morrell, J. B. (John Bowes), 1873-1963.
Charlton, Lionel Evelyn Oswald. Air defence of Britain.
Glover, Charles William. Civil defence.
Claxton, J. A.R.P. and industry.
Morrell, J. B. (John Bowes), b. 1873
Great Britain. Air Raid Precautions Department.
Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office.
Great Britain. Lord Privy Seal.
Cement and Concrete Association.
Provenance. York Public Library. Reference Dept. Ownership stamps.

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