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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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