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<strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong> <strong>Collections</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>UK</strong><br />

A prelim<strong>in</strong>ary horizon-scan<br />

Hold<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong>stitution<br />

University of<br />

Cambridge:<br />

Tr<strong>in</strong>ity College<br />

Library<br />

University of<br />

Cambridge:<br />

Tr<strong>in</strong>ity College<br />

Library<br />

University of<br />

Cardiff<br />

University of<br />

Glasgow<br />

University of<br />

Glasgow<br />

K<strong>in</strong>g’s College<br />

London: Liddell<br />

Hart Centre for<br />

Military Archives<br />

(overview).<br />

Some specific<br />

examples listed<br />

below but not a<br />

comprehensive<br />

list of all private<br />

papers relat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to <strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong><br />

<strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>.<br />

K<strong>in</strong>g’s College<br />

London: Liddell<br />

Hart Centre<br />

for Military<br />

Archives: The<br />

Serv<strong>in</strong>g Soldier<br />

K<strong>in</strong>g’s College<br />

London: Liddell<br />

Hart Centre for<br />

Military Archives<br />

(specific)<br />

Item/ collection L<strong>in</strong>k to website Brief description Region Type of<br />

organisation<br />

Additional<br />

papers and<br />

correspondence<br />

of Sir Joseph<br />

John Thomson<br />

FRS (1856 - 1940)<br />

Papers and<br />

correspondence<br />

of Sir George<br />

Paget Thomson<br />

FRS (1892 - 1975)<br />

Archives and<br />

Manuscripts<br />

collections:<br />

Papers of Edward<br />

Thomas (1878-<br />

1917)<br />

Special<br />

<strong>Collections</strong>:<br />

Manuscripts<br />

Archive Services:<br />

Scottish Bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />

Archive<br />

Private papers<br />

of over 700<br />

senior defence<br />

personnel who<br />

held office <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> years s<strong>in</strong>ce<br />

1900. See l<strong>in</strong>k<br />

to <strong>in</strong>troductory<br />

guide to <strong>First</strong><br />

<strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong><br />

collections<br />

The Serv<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Soldier is<br />

an ongo<strong>in</strong>g<br />

digitisation<br />

project supported<br />

by <strong>JISC</strong> that<br />

makes available<br />

onl<strong>in</strong>e key<br />

documents and<br />

photographs<br />

from <strong>the</strong><br />

Archives.<br />

Private papers<br />

of Field Marshal<br />

Edmund (Henry<br />

Hynman) Allenby,<br />

1st Viscount<br />

Allenby of<br />

Megiddo and of<br />

Felixstowe, GCB,<br />

GCMG, GCVO<br />

(1880-1936)<br />

www.tr<strong>in</strong>.cam.ac.uk/<strong>in</strong>dex.<br />

php?pageid=546&display=80<br />

www.tr<strong>in</strong>.cam.ac.uk/<strong>in</strong>dex.<br />

php?pageid=546&display=79<br />

www.cardiff.ac.uk/<strong>in</strong>srv/libraries/scolar/<br />

archives/<strong>in</strong>dex.html<br />

Additional papers and<br />

correspondence of Sir<br />

Joseph John Thomson<br />

FRS (1856 - 1940) who was<br />

a scientific advisor to <strong>the</strong><br />

government dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>.<br />

Papers and<br />

correspondence of Sir<br />

George Paget Thomson<br />

FRS (1892 - 1975) who<br />

served <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> RFC dur<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>.<br />

The world’s largest<br />

archive of material<br />

relat<strong>in</strong>g to Edward<br />

Thomas. Includes writ<strong>in</strong>gs,<br />

correspondence and<br />

personal artefacts.<br />

www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/ Manuscripts and<br />

photographic collections<br />

of <strong>in</strong>dividuals that<br />

served dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> war,<br />

a great number <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

6th Battalion Cameron<br />

Highlanders.<br />

www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/<br />

scottishbus<strong>in</strong>essarchive/<br />

Scottish bus<strong>in</strong>ess<br />

archive conta<strong>in</strong>s over<br />

400 collections cover<strong>in</strong>g<br />

different types of<br />

bus<strong>in</strong>esses and <strong>in</strong>dustries<br />

<strong>in</strong> Scotland. The Archive<br />

holds particularly strong<br />

collections <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g<br />

areas: shipbuild<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

railway locomotive<br />

manufacture, textiles and<br />

m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g.<br />

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/guides/ww1.htm Private papers of over 700<br />

senior defence personnel<br />

who held office <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

years s<strong>in</strong>ce 1900.<br />

www.k<strong>in</strong>gscollections.org/serv<strong>in</strong>gsoldier/<br />

<strong>in</strong>dex.php?id=6<br />

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/al60-001.<br />

htm<br />

Digitised content has<br />

so far been drawn from<br />

fifty of <strong>the</strong> eight hundred<br />

private paper collections<br />

held at <strong>the</strong> Liddell Hart<br />

Centre for Military<br />

Archives.<br />

Papers arranged <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g sections:<br />

personal papers and<br />

correspondence;<br />

Palest<strong>in</strong>e and Egypt;<br />

speeches, lectures and<br />

articles; newspaper<br />

cutt<strong>in</strong>gs; photographs<br />

and photograph albums;<br />

correspondence received<br />

by Wavell dur<strong>in</strong>g writ<strong>in</strong>g of<br />

Allenby; material collected<br />

by Wavell for Allenby <strong>in</strong><br />

Egypt, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g papers<br />

relat<strong>in</strong>g to Lawrence.<br />

Eastern England University<br />

archives<br />

Eastern England University<br />

archives<br />

Wales University<br />

archives<br />

Scotland University<br />

archives<br />

Scotland University<br />

archives<br />

London region University<br />

archives<br />

London region University<br />

archives<br />

London region University<br />

archives<br />

Subject area Status Medium Key <strong>in</strong>dividuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Network<strong>in</strong>g Onl<strong>in</strong>e access L<strong>in</strong>k to website Terms of use<br />

Science and<br />

Technology<br />

Regular Private papers Joseph John Thompson<br />

(1856-1940)<br />

Aerial warfare Regular Private papers George Paget Thomson<br />

(1892-1975)<br />

Cultural<br />

responses,<br />

Military service<br />

(British)<br />

Military service<br />

(British)<br />

Industries and<br />

bus<strong>in</strong>ess, Naval<br />

and shipp<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Government and<br />

politics<br />

Government and<br />

politics, Military<br />

service (British),<br />

Aerial <strong>War</strong>fare,<br />

Science and<br />

technology,<br />

Propaganda<br />

Government and<br />

politics<br />

Important Private papers,<br />

photographic<br />

collections,<br />

objects - small,<br />

oral testimony,<br />

pr<strong>in</strong>ted books<br />

Important Private papers,<br />

photographic<br />

collections<br />

Highly<br />

significant<br />

Highly<br />

significant<br />

Highly<br />

significant<br />

Highly<br />

significant<br />

Private papers,<br />

<strong>in</strong>stitutional<br />

records,<br />

photographic<br />

collections<br />

Sir Joseph John Thomson was an advisor to several government departments<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>. He was also a member of <strong>the</strong> Board of Invention<br />

and Research that was set up <strong>in</strong> 1915 to promote scientific endeavour to help<br />

<strong>the</strong> war effort.<br />

Sir George Paget Thomson was attached to <strong>the</strong> Royal Aircraft Factory at<br />

Farnborough where he became a member of <strong>the</strong> famous ‘Chudleigh Mess’<br />

and formed last<strong>in</strong>g friendships with F.W. Aston, W.S. Farren, B.M. Jones, F.A.<br />

L<strong>in</strong>demann (later Lord Cherwell), G.I. Taylor and o<strong>the</strong>rs.<br />

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Letters written between 1896 and 1917. Book reviews, essays and poems. Books<br />

and maps from <strong>the</strong> family library. Personal artefacts. A tape record<strong>in</strong>g of Helen<br />

Thomas talk<strong>in</strong>g about her husband.<br />

Alec Lawrence Macfie (1898-<br />

1980), Alexander MacCallum<br />

Scott (1874-1928)<br />

Manuscript collections: Material relat<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> 6th Battalion Cameron<br />

Highlanders <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g diaries and letters from <strong>the</strong> front. Papers of Alec<br />

Lawrence Macfie (1898 - 1980), Professor of Political Economy at Glasgow<br />

University from 1945 to 1958, he served on <strong>the</strong> Western Front <strong>in</strong> 1917 and<br />

1918. MacCallum Scott Papers: Alexander MacCallum Scott (1874-1928)<br />

was Secretary of <strong>the</strong> League of Liberals aga<strong>in</strong>st Aggression and Militarism,<br />

and Secretary of <strong>the</strong> New Reform Club before becom<strong>in</strong>g Liberal M.P. for <strong>the</strong><br />

Bridgeton constituency of Glasgow <strong>in</strong> 1910. Dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong> he<br />

was Parliamentary Private Secretary to W<strong>in</strong>ston Churchill. The papers <strong>in</strong>clude<br />

correspondence with constituents and contemporaries, drafts of speeches, and<br />

political diaries.<br />

Guides to each type of <strong>in</strong>dustry are available onl<strong>in</strong>e. These list sources for<br />

shipp<strong>in</strong>g companies, railway companies, aircraft construction <strong>in</strong>dustries,<br />

m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g companies, textile companies, breweries and pr<strong>in</strong>ters and many more<br />

bus<strong>in</strong>esses that operated <strong>in</strong> Scotland <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> early twentieth century. Includes<br />

House of Fraser Archive that <strong>in</strong>corporates <strong>the</strong> company records of Army & Navy<br />

Stores Ltd (HF 128). The Army & Navy Stores supplied additional equipment and<br />

cloth<strong>in</strong>g to soldiers and sailors dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>.<br />

Page 9<br />

Tr<strong>in</strong>ity College Library, Cambridge,<br />

CB2 1TQ: Monday - Friday: 9am<br />

- 5pm. To make an appo<strong>in</strong>tment<br />

contact <strong>the</strong> College Archivist and<br />

Manuscript Cataloguer by post or<br />

at: archives@tr<strong>in</strong>.cam.ac.uk<br />

Tr<strong>in</strong>ity College Library,<br />

Cambridge, CB2 1TQ: Monday<br />

- Friday: 9am - 5pm. To make<br />

an appo<strong>in</strong>tment contact <strong>the</strong><br />

College Archivist and Manuscript<br />

Cataloguer by post or at:<br />

archives@tr<strong>in</strong>.cam.ac.uk<br />

Special <strong>Collections</strong> Research<br />

Room, Arts and Social Studies<br />

Library, Colum Drive, Cardiff,<br />

CF10 3EU: Monday - Friday: 9am<br />

- 5pm. A research enquiry service<br />

is available, contact <strong>the</strong> Library<br />

by post at Information Services,<br />

Cardiff University, PO Box 430,<br />

Cardiff, CF24 0DE or by telephone<br />

on 029 2087 4818 or by email at<br />

asslliby@cardiff.ac.uk<br />

Semester Open<strong>in</strong>g Hours: Monday<br />

- Thursday: 9am - 7pm and Friday:<br />

10am - 5pm. Vacation Open<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Hours: Monday to Thursday: 9am<br />

- 5pm and Friday: 10am – 5pm.<br />

Free to all, no need to make an<br />

appo<strong>in</strong>tment, temporary Reader’s<br />

Ticket issued on arrival. Some<br />

items may take up to 24 hours<br />

to be retrieved so call<strong>in</strong>g ahead<br />

is advised. Access to onl<strong>in</strong>e<br />

catalogues is available <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Read<strong>in</strong>g Room.<br />

Archive search rooms’ open<strong>in</strong>g<br />

hours: Monday: 1.30pm -<br />

5pm, Tuesday - Wednesday:<br />

9.30am - 5pm, Thursday: 9.30<br />

- 8pm and Friday: 9.30am - 5pm.<br />

Appo<strong>in</strong>tments are advised. L<strong>in</strong>k<br />

to book<strong>in</strong>g form: www.gla.ac.uk/<br />

services/archives/contactus/<br />

searchroombook<strong>in</strong>gform/<br />

None specific to <strong>the</strong> collection Full catalogue<br />

list<strong>in</strong>g available<br />

via <strong>the</strong> National<br />

Archives’<br />

Access to<br />

Archives page<br />

None specific to <strong>the</strong> collection Full catalogue<br />

list<strong>in</strong>g available<br />

via <strong>the</strong> National<br />

Archives’<br />

Access to<br />

Archives page<br />

None specific to <strong>the</strong> collection No onl<strong>in</strong>e<br />

catalogue<br />

www.flickr.com/photos/uofglibrary/<br />

http://universityofglasgowlibrary.<br />

wordpress.com/category/specialcollections/<br />

L<strong>in</strong>ks to enable users to share each page<br />

of <strong>the</strong> website on over 340 o<strong>the</strong>r sites<br />

Searchable<br />

catalogue<br />

and digitised<br />

content<br />

Searchable<br />

catalogue<br />

Private papers Approximately 150 collections relate to <strong>the</strong> <strong>First</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>War</strong>. Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm None specific to <strong>the</strong> collection Searchable<br />

catalogue<br />

Private papers,<br />

photographic<br />

collections<br />

Arthur Bryant (1899-1985),<br />

John Frederick Charles<br />

Fuller (1878-1966)<br />

Private papers Edmund (Henry Hynman)<br />

Allenby (1880-1936)<br />

A Royal Fly<strong>in</strong>g Corps Tra<strong>in</strong>ee: Documents relat<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> service of Sir Arthur<br />

Bryant, historian, <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Fly<strong>in</strong>g Corps. The Birth of <strong>the</strong> Tank: Notes made<br />

by Majot General John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966) detail<strong>in</strong>g his<br />

thoughts on <strong>the</strong> use of armoured vehicles that later became known as tanks.<br />

Photographs of Gallipoli, <strong>the</strong> Western Front and <strong>the</strong> German Eastern Front.<br />

Collection of colour propaganda posters recently purchased by K<strong>in</strong>g’s from <strong>the</strong><br />

Moravian Church of North America.<br />

After attend<strong>in</strong>g Royal Military College at Sandhurst, Allenby was commissioned<br />

<strong>in</strong>to 6 Inniskill<strong>in</strong>g Dragoons <strong>in</strong> 1882. He served <strong>in</strong> South Africa and <strong>the</strong> <strong>UK</strong> before<br />

attend<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Staff College at Camberley <strong>in</strong> 1896. Allenby was promoted several<br />

times <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> decade that followed. He served on Western Front as Commander of<br />

Cavalry Div (later Cavalry Corps), BEF, 1914; Commander, 5 Army Corps, 1915;<br />

Commander, 3 Army, 1915-1917; Commander-<strong>in</strong>-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary<br />

Force, Palest<strong>in</strong>e and Egypt, 1917-1919. He was awarded <strong>the</strong> rank of Field<br />

Marshal <strong>in</strong> 1919 and served as High Commissioner for Egypt and <strong>the</strong> Sudan <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> years between 1919 and 1925. Related papers: www.nationalarchives.gov.<br />

uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P445<br />

Onl<strong>in</strong>e resource www.flickr.com/people/serv<strong>in</strong>gsoldier/<br />

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/blogs/soldier/<br />

http://twitter.com/#!/Serv<strong>in</strong>gSoldier<br />

Digitised<br />

content<br />

Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 5.30pm None specific to <strong>the</strong> collection Searchable<br />

catalogue<br />

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/<br />

A2A/records.aspx?cat=016ncuacs91400&cid=0&kw=first%20<br />

world%20war#0<br />

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/<br />

A2A/records.aspx?cat=016csac75580&cid=0&kw=SIR%20<br />

GEORGE%20PAGET%20THOMSON#0<br />

List<strong>in</strong>g: www.cardiff.ac.uk/<br />

<strong>in</strong>srv/libraries/scolar/archives/<br />

humanitiesarchives.html<br />

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/<br />

search/<br />

http://cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/<br />

<strong>in</strong>dex.html<br />

Not all available for consultation<br />

- contact college archivist for<br />

details. From Nuffield College<br />

Library: “Archive readers are<br />

required to make a signed<br />

undertak<strong>in</strong>g not to copy, quote<br />

or publish ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

or any part of material <strong>the</strong>y<br />

consult without permission of<br />

<strong>the</strong> owner(s) of <strong>the</strong> copyright <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al documents. Such<br />

permission must be sought from<br />

<strong>the</strong> copyright owner; it cannot be<br />

granted by Nuffield College.<br />

No digitised content available<br />

onl<strong>in</strong>e. Access is by appo<strong>in</strong>tment<br />

only.<br />

An searchable onl<strong>in</strong>e catalogue<br />

is currently under construction.<br />

Digitised images used on <strong>the</strong><br />

website are not available to<br />

download or copy.<br />

No digitised content available<br />

onl<strong>in</strong>e. Item reference numbers<br />

can be used to fill out an enquiry<br />

form.<br />

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/<strong>in</strong>fo/<strong>in</strong>dex.shtml Open, subject to signature of<br />

reader’s undertak<strong>in</strong>g form.<br />

Copies, subject to <strong>the</strong> condition<br />

of <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al, may be supplied<br />

for research use only. Requests<br />

to publish orig<strong>in</strong>al material<br />

should be submitted to <strong>the</strong><br />

Trustees of <strong>the</strong> Liddell Hart<br />

Centre for Military Archives,<br />

attention of <strong>the</strong> Director of<br />

Archive Services.<br />

Digitised content at The Serv<strong>in</strong>g Soldier<br />

website: www.k<strong>in</strong>gscollections.org/<br />

serv<strong>in</strong>gsoldier/<br />

www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/allenby/<br />

al60-0.htm<br />

New content is be<strong>in</strong>g published<br />

regularly. Each selection of<br />

around 50 images is available<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r as a PDF file for download<br />

or <strong>in</strong> gallery format, with a<br />

detailed zoom available for many<br />

collections. Related or similar<br />

items are listed alongside each<br />

collection to enable l<strong>in</strong>ked<br />

<strong>the</strong>mes to be explored more. We<br />

encourage <strong>the</strong> use of images <strong>in</strong><br />

teach<strong>in</strong>g and research: Please<br />

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