First World War Collections in the UK - JISC World War One ...

First World War Collections in the UK
A preliminary horizon-scan
Holding
institution
Museum of
London
Museum of
London
RNLI (Royal
National
Lifeboat
Institution)
Chatham
museum:
Chatham
Historic
Dockyards
RNLI (Royal
National
Lifeboat
Institution)
Whitby museum
RNLI (Royal
National
Lifeboat
Institution)
Henry Blogg
museum
RNLI (Royal
National
Lifeboat
Institution) HQ
Collections and
Archives
Royal College
of Physicians:
Heritage Centre
Royal College
of Surgeons:
Hunterian
Museum and
Archives
Item/ collection Link to website Brief description Region Type of
organisation
Library and
Archive
collections:
The Sainsbury
Archives
Library and
Archive
collections:
Port of London
Authority
archives
Gallery of
lifeboats used by
the RNLI over the
course of its long
history
RNLI collection
relating to the
Lifeboat station
at Cromer
Collection
relating to
Coxswain Henry
Blogg (1876-
1954), the RNLI’s
most decorated
lifeboatman. Also
access to the
digital archive
of The Lifeboat
journal.
RNLI core
collections
Archives and
Manuscripts
Collections
Archive and
manuscript
collections
and museum
collection of the
Royal College of
Surgeons
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-
Research/About-the-collections/Library-andarchive-collections/SainsburyArchive/
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-
Research/About-the-collections/Library-andarchive-collections/PLA+Archive.htm
www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_
trust/chatham
www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_
trust/whitby
www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_
trust/henry-blogg
www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/the_heritage_
trust/hq_collections_archive
http://old.rcplondon.ac.uk/history-heritage/
Collections/archive/Pages/Archive.aspx
Archive of Sainsbury’s
supermarket from its
beginnings in Drury Lane
in 1869 to the present day.
Extensive archive of the
London docklands and the
Port of London Authority’s
part in the development of
the capital’s shipping and
trade industries.
Seventeen historic
lifeboats, of which one
relates to the First World
War.
Models, paintings,
medals, photographs,
lifeboat equipment and
items relating to famous
rescues.
Models, paintings,
medals, photographs,
lifeboat equipment and
items relating to famous
rescues.
Historic documents,
models, paintings,
medals, photographs,
lifeboat equipment and
items relating to famous
rescues.
Records of the College’s
activities from its
founding in 1518 to the
present day. Institutional
archives, legal documents,
Western manuscripts,
Oriental manuscripts,
personal papers and other
societies’ papers.
www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums Record of the College
and its surgeons.
Includes large collections
of personal papers,
photographic collections
and sketchbooks as well
as surgical instruments
and specimens.
London region Specialist
archive/
museum
London region Specialist
archive/
museum
South East Specialist
archive/
museum
Yorkshire Specialist
archive/
museum
Eastern England Specialist
archive/
museum
South West Specialist
archive/
museum
London region Specialist
archive/
museum
London region Specialist
archive/
museum
Subject area Status Medium Key individuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Networking Online access Link to website Terms of use
Industries
and business,
Women
Naval and
shipping,
Industries
and business,
Munitions
manufacture
Voluntary
Organisations,
Naval and
shipping
Voluntary
Organisations,
Naval and
shipping
Voluntary
Organisations,
Naval and
shipping
Voluntary
Organisations,
Naval and
shipping
Medical science,
hospitals and
convalescence
Medical science,
hospitals and
convalescence
Regular Company papers,
objects - small,
photographic
collections, oral
testimony, film
Regular Printed books,
works of art,
photographic
collections, film,
institutional
records
John James Sainsbury (1844-
1928), Mary Ann Sainsbury
(1849-1927), John Benjamin
Sainsbury (1871-1956)
Objects include food preparation and testing equipment, product packaging and
staff uniforms. Company records: reports, accounts, press releases and staff
records among other records. Wartime newspaper advertisements including
original artwork. Large collection of photographs charting the history of the
company. During the war J Sainsbury began to recruit women to run stores for
the first time. A new training school for these women was set up in Blackfriars
in 1916.
Comprehensive records of the Port of London Authority, established in
1908 to govern the Port of London. Minute books of private dock companies.
Photographic archive of images showing the dockyards busy with the activities of
all manner of trades. Photographs of the aftermath of the Silvertown explosion
in January 1917, when an explosion at a munitions factory in West Ham killed
seventy-three people.
Page 5
Sainsbury Study Centre at the
Museum of London Docklands,
Museum in Docklands, No 1
Warehouse, West India Quay,
London, E14 4AL: Search
Room: Tuesday and Thursday:
10.30am - 1pm and 2pm - 4.30pm
and open same hours second
Saturday of each month. Two
forms of identification necessary.
Appointments necessary. Contact
the Search Room on 020 7001
9844, book in person at the
Reception desk or email info@
museumoflondon.org.uk
Sainsbury Study Centre at the
Museum of London Docklands,
Museum in Docklands, No 1
Warehouse, West India Quay,
London, E14 4AL: Search
Room: Tuesday and Thursday:
10.30am - 1pm and 2pm - 4.30pm
and open same hours second
Saturday of each month. Two
forms of identification necessary.
Appointments necessary. Contact
the Search Room on 020 7001
9844, book in person at the
Reception desk or email info@
museumoflondon.org.uk
Regular objects - large St Paul: winner in 1919 of two Silver and fourteen Bronze RNLI Medals. Museum opening times: Daily until
27th November: 10am - 6pm (until
29th October), 10am - 4pm (from
30th October).
Regular Photographic
collections,
works of art,
objects - small,
ephemera
Regular Photographic
collections,
works of art,
objects - small,
ephemera
Regular Institutional
records,
photographs,
works of art,
objects - small,
ephemera
Important Institutional
records, private
papers, objects
- small, works of
art, photographic
collections
Important Institutional
records, private
papers, objects
- small, works of
art, photographic
collections
Thomas Langlands, Richard
Eglon, George Peart
Text from RNLI website (www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/north/stations/
whitbynorthyorkshire/history): “1914 Gold Medal to Coxswain Thomas
Langlands, and Silver Medals to Second Coxswain Richard Eglon and George
Peart for saving 35 lives when the hospital ship Rohilla, with 229 people on
board, on her way to Dunkirk to evacuate wounded men during the First World
War, ran onto a dangerous reef at Saltwick Nab. Lifeboats from Scarborough,
Teesmouth, Tynemouth, Upgang and two from Whitby were involved in this
rescue. In total, 146 people survived. This was the most outstanding lifeboat
service of the War and one of the greatest in the whole history of the RNLI.”
Henry Blogg (1876-1954) Coxswain Henry Blogg (1876-1954) was the RNLI’s most decorated lifeboatman.
During his 53 years of service Blogg was awarded three Gold and four Silver
RNLI medals for gallantry, as well as the British Empire Medal for Gallantry in
1924 and the George Cross, in 1941. One of the most daring rescue attempts
took place in 1917 when Coxswain Blogg helped rescue sailors from the Swedish
vessel Fernebo that had struck a naval mine and blown into two halves. His
medals are on display at the museum. Also, access to the digital archive of The
Lifeboat, a journal that over 150 years’ old.
Thomas Hancock Arnold
Chaplin (1864-1944), Edward
Alfred Cockayne (1880-1956),
Sir John Josias Conybeare
(1888-1967), Robert William
Innes Smith (1872-1933), Sir
William Henry Willcox (1870-
1941), Robert Hutchinson
(1871-1960)
John Bland-Sutton (1855-
1936), Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936), Victor Bonney
(1872-1953), Henry Souttar
(1875-1964), Arthur Keith
(1866-1955), Harry Stobie
(1875-1955)
Documents charting the charity’s history as well as models, paintings, medals,
photographs, lifeboat equipment and items relating to famous rescues and the
history of the RNLI. No online catalogue.
Institutional archives: Papers relating to all aspects of the College like its
organisation, publications, events and proceedings. Personal papers: Thomas
Hancock Arnold Chaplin (1864-1944): Papers on medical history (1915 - 1920);
Edward Alfred Cockayne (1880-1956): Personal and professional papers,
including case book (1914 - 1946); Sir John Josias Conybeare (1888-1967):
War diary and medical notebook (1915 - 1924); Robert William Innes Smith
(1872-1933): Papers, early 20th century, including research in medical history
and biography during the 1920s and early 1930s; Sir William Henry Willcox
(1870-1941): Papers relating to murder trials (1911 – 1913), criminal abortion
(1913 – 1915) and the use of Insulin (1923 – 1924). Oriental and Western
Manuscripts pre-date the First World War period. Other societies: Includes
Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland: Attendance records,
cash book, correspondence, minutes and photographs (1907-1972); a number
of dispensaries. Picture Library: Over 5000 portraits of physicians, scientists
and other leading cultural figures in paintings, prints and drawing collections.
Including portrait of Robert Hutchinson (1871 - 1960). As medical adviser to the
Ministry of Food during the First World War his special concern was with the
rations allowed for invalids.
College archives and manuscripts relating to medicine and surgery from
the sixteenth century to the present including case notes, lecture notes,
correspondence and drawings. A large number of personal papers of surgeons
prominent during the First World War period. Examples: Papers of Sir John
Bland-Sutton (1855-1936), surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital between 1905
and 1920, President of the Royal College between 1923 and 1925. During
the First World War he was attached to the 3rd London General Hospital at
Denmark Hill. The papers include letters from Rudyard Kipling, who was a close
personal friend. Papers of Victor Bonney (1872-1953), gynaecological surgeon,
who served at the military branch of the Middlesex Hospital, at Clacton-on-
Sea, during the First World War. Photographs & papers recording Sir Henry
Souttar’s work as surgeon to the Belgian field hospital at Antwerp during the
First World War. Papers of Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955), surgeon and physical
anthropologist who gave lectures on how to treat war injuries in 1917 and 1918.
Patient Records of Professor Harry Stobie, November 1915 - April 1919. Wartime
papers of Harold Burrows (1875-1955) who in France with the 20th General
Hospital and later became consultant surgeon to the First Army and to the Army
of the Rhine, with the rank of Colonel. Papers of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
that relate to his correspondence with leading surgeons of the day as well as
unpublished works. Sketchbooks of injuries and reconstructive surgery. Army
Medical Services gave the Hunterian its collection of war specimens. Records of
the London Lock Hospital, 1746-1948, a hospital for the treatment of venereal
diseases.
Easter - October: Daily 10am-5pm.
November - December: Daily
11am-4pm (subject to weather).
January - March: Weekends only
11am-4pm (subject to weather).
Tuesday - Sunday : February
- March: 10am-4pm, April -
September: 10am-5pm, October -
November: 10am-4pm, December:
weekends 10am-4pm, January:
closed.
Library archive: Monday and
Thursday: 9.30am - 12.30pm.
Object collections: by appointment
only.
Heritage centre, Regent’s Park:
Wellcome Library Reading Room:
Monday - Friday: 9am - 5pm.
Appointment necessary. Users
need to complete a reader
registration form on their first visit.
Hunterian Museum: Opening
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 9am
- 5pm. Library: Opening times:
Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm.
Access to archival material is
provided by appointment through
the College Library. Email
library@rcseng.ac.uk for further
information.
None specific to the collection Summary guide www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
Collections-Research/About-thecollections/Library-and-archivecollections/SainsburyArchive/
SummaryGuideIndex.htm
www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/
blog/documenting-the-port-of-londonauthority-archive/
None specific to the collection Contact
information
None specific to the collection Contact
information
Links to enable users to share each page
of the website on over 340 other sites
Links to enable users to share each page
of the website on over 340 other sites
Summary guide www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
Collections-Research/About-thecollections/Library-and-archivecollections/PLA+Archive.htm
Contact
information
Contact
information
None specific to the collection Contact
information
Links to enable users to share each
page of the Library website on over
340 other sites. www.facebook.
com/pages/Hunterian-Museum-
London/264949800174?ref=nf
Searchable
catalogue
(incomplete)
and digitised
content
Address: Lifeboat!, The Historic Dockyard,
Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TZ. Telephone:
01634 823800
Address: Pier Road, Whitby, YO21 3PU.
Telephone: 01947 602001
Address: The Rocket House, The
Gangway, Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9ET.
Telephone: 01263 511294. Email address:
cromer_museum@rnli.org.uk
Address: West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset,
BH15 1HZ. Telephone: 01202 662228.
Email: heritage@rnli.org.uk
Address: Heritage Centre, Royal
College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews
Place, Regent’s Park, London, NW1
4LE. Telephone: 020 3075 1543. Email:
heritage@rcplondon.ac.uk
http://surgicat.rcseng.ac.uk/
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Information from website:
“Following a 2-year project to
produce a full archive catalogue
using DS CALM software, work
on editing descriptions, linking to
images and adding new records
is ongoing, with a view to making
the catalogue publicly available
online in due course.”
Items from the collection can
be found by searching the
online catalogue that is being
systematically expanded. Each
catalogue entry can be shared
online or printed. Users can
also send comments on the
catalogue entry to the museum.
Images can be enlarged but
not purchased directly. Images
can be purchase at www.
museumoflondonprints.com/
No digitised content available
online.
No digitised content available
online.
No digitised content available
online.
No digitised content available
online.
Contact the Heritage Centre for
information about on images
in the Picture Library and
reproduction costs.
Catalogue currently holds
records for approximately
half of the College’s deposited
manuscripts. The catalogue
also contains 50,000 museum
object records as well as
records of specimens, surgical
instruments, paintings and
sculptures from the College
Museum. There are no images
on the archive database
currently, however there are
images of some of the museum
collection. These photographs,
for instance of medical
equipment can be enlarged
and printed for personal noncommercial
use.