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

First World War Collections in the UKA preliminary horizon-scanHoldinginstitutionRAF Museum:Print storeTank Museum,Archive andReferenceLibrary,BovingtonNational collectionItem/ collection Link to website Brief description Region Type oforganisationRoyal Air Forceand RoyalFlying CorpsphotographiccollectionRoyal ArmouredCorps, RoyalTank Regiment,Royal Tank Corpsand Tank Corpscollectionwww.rafmuseumphotos.com/www.tankmuseum.org/Archive_and_Reference_LibraryA selection of photographsare available for purchasethrough this website.Collection, as theMuseum is a Place ofDeposit for the NationalArchive, includes a largenumber of tanks, aswell as documents andphotographs relating totheir use and developmentin war.London regionSouth WestMilitarymuseum,NationalcollectionMilitarymuseum,NationalcollectionSubject area Status Medium Key individuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Networking Online access Link to website Terms of useAerial Warfare,military service(British)Military service(British)ImportantHighlysignificantPhotographiccollectionsPrivate papers,photographiccollections, film,objects - small,objects - large,works of art andfirearms andweaponryAlbert Ball (1896-1917),Manfred Freiherr vonRichthofen (1892-1918)Thirty items in the First World War gallery including portraits of pilots, aircraftand airfields. For example, portrait photograph of Captain Albert Ball, VCDSO (two bars) MC, one of Britain’s leading aces with forty-four victories, andRittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, a German pilot with over eighty aircombat victories, making his the most successful fighter pilot of the war.First World War Battalion War Diaries, Tank Corps Book of Honour, RegimentalHistories, personal papers donated by relatives, photographs, maps, technicaldocuments, handbooks and vehicle histories. Vehicles, medals and roll ofhonour highlights form part of an online exhibition.Online resource. Print store is runby Media Storehouse Ltd. Enquiriesto Media Storehouse Ltd, PO Box2392, Watford,WD18 1RZ or bytelephone on 0845 519 5323 (UK),+44 20 3286 0822 (Worldwide) or byemail at sales@mediastorehouse.comMuseum: Daily 10am - 5pm.Archive and Reference Library:10am - 4.30pm, by appointmentonly. Admission to Archive andLibrary: £10. Reader’s Ticket:£50 per annum. If the enquiry iscommercial, a consultancy feemay apply.Links to enable users to share each pageof the website on over 340 other siteswww.facebook.com/tankmuseumhttp://twitter.com/#!/TankMuseumwww.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseumwww.flickr.com/photos/tankmuseumhttp://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/forumdisplay.php?75Order printsContactinformationFor example: www.rafmuseumphotos.com/captain_albert_ball_vc_dso_2_bars_mc/print/1481793.htmlAddress: The Archive & ReferenceLibrary, The Tank Museum, Bovington,Dorset, BH20 6JG. Tel: 01929 405096,Fax: 01929 463162. Email enquiries:Librarian@tankmuseum.orgDigital images watermarkedand copyrighted to the Museum.Watermark and website addressdo not appeared on purchasedprints.Prints available to order and canbe distributed on CD-ROMs butnot as digital files by email.BBC ArchivesBBC Archivescollectionswww.bbc.co.uk/archive/The BBC was founded in1922. Its archives includesprogrammes made in thedecades after the war thatinterview participants ofthe war or reflect on itsevents, impact and lastingsignificance.London regionNationalcollectionAll esp.Government andpolitics, Women,Culturalresponses,MemorialsPre-eminentOral testimony,filmEdward VIII (1894-1972),Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Margery CorbettAshby (1882-1981)Suffragettes collection: A range of radio and television programmes that tellthe stories of women’s fights for suffrage and interviews key figures in themovement. For example, a television programme Suffragettes Anniversary(first broadcast in 1955) in which participants reunited to share their memories.Woman’s Hour programmes from the 1950s interview participants andbroadcast testimonials from participants and those that remember the decadebefore 1918. Interview with Dame Margery Corbett Ashby in 1972 by JoanBakewell. Remembering Winston Churchill collection: Radio and televisionprogrammes centring around the state funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965that recall the life of a man whose public service spanned the first half of thetwentieth century. Edward, Prince of Wales: The Poppy Appeal: from November1934, the Prince declares ‘they must never be forgotten while we are safe andfree’. Remembrance Day services at the Cenotaph.Charter documents, minutes, memoranda, financial documents of theorganisation and scripts and production files of its programmes. These datefrom the BBC’s founding in 1922 to the 1980s. The BBC has been Britain’sbiggest commissioner of radio and television programmes this century.Clips of radio and televisionprogrammes are available online.Contact the BFI to research andview past TV programmes. Contactthe British Library Sound Archiveto research and listen to past radioprogrammes. Contact the NationalMedia Museum to view items fromthe BBC Collection. Contact theBBC Written Archives Centre tomake an appointment to researchthe BBC’s written documents.None specific to the collectionDigitisedcontentUsers can browse the collections bysubject area here: www.bbc.co.uk/archive/keywords/index.shtmlThe BBC are in the process ofdigitising their entire collection.Currently just over half of thearchives have been digitised.Clips are available online. Forcommercial users, the BBC’sMotion Gallery is the portal forpurchasing high resolution clips:www.bbcmotiongallery.com/BBC ArchivesBBC WrittenArchives Centrewww.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/contacts/wac.shtmlWorking papers of theBBC dating from itsfounding in 1922 to the1980s.South EastNationalcollectionAll esp. Culturalresponses,MemorialsPre-eminentInstitutionalrecords,photographiccollectionsBBC Written Archives Centre,Peppard Road, Caversham Park,Reading, RG4 8TZ: Opening hours:Wednesday - Friday: 9.45am - 5pm.Open to academic researchers andwriters with publication agreed,by appointment only. Contactthe archive during office hours(Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 5pm)by telephone on 0118 948 6281.General email address: heritage@bbc.co.ukNone specific to the collectionContactinformationBy post, telephone or email: heritage@bbc.co.ukUsers need to write to theWritten Archive Centre withdetails of their request. Theymay have to wait up to fourweeks for a response.BBC ArchivesBBC MotionGallerywww.bbcmotiongallery.com/Footage licensing divisionof BBC Worldwide.London regionNationalcollectionAll Pre-eminent Oral testimony,filmFootage licensing division of BBC Worldwide. Online collection of BBC radioand television programmes (see other BBC information) that are available todownload and purchase.Online resource.http://twitter.com/#!/BBC_MGwww.facebook.com/bbcmotiongalleryDigitisedcontentwww.bbcmotiongallery.com/Different options are availableto different types of users.Extensive terms and conditionsare available to read here:www.bbcworldwide.com/bbcworldwidewebsitessiteterms.aspxNo digitised material online.Users can order photocopies orscans of items either throughthe website or in person in theResearchers’ Area of the Library.BishopsgateInstituteLibrary andArchiveCollectionswww.bishopsgate.org.uk/content/1519/Library-and-Archive-CollectionsCollections grouped intothe following subjectareas: London history,Labour and Socialisthistory, Free thoughtand Humanism, Cooperationand Protest andCampaigningLondon regionNationalcollectionGovernmentand politics,Industriesand business,Pacifism andConscientiousObjection,MemorialsImportantPrivate papers,institutionalrecords,printed books,photographiccollections,works of artGeorge Frederick Dutch(b.1894), Frederick PorterWensley (1865-1948)London History: Collections relating to the social and cultural history of London,especially the area around Bishopsgate and Spitalfields. Includes guidebooksof the city and trade directories for nearly every year between 1740 and 1990.Drawings, watercolours and maps showing how the city has changed overthe previous two centuries. Papers of London Cooperative Society branches:minute books covering the wartime period from Aylesbury, Berkhamsted,Chesham, Hendon, Stratford and West London branches. Papers of the Women’sCooperative Guild, founded in 1833, membership peaked at 72,000 in 1933.London Collection of pamphlets, manuscripts and photographs. Union of EthicalSocieties (now the British Humanist Association) congress minute books (1913- 1946) and council minute book (1912 - 1923). Papers of the Rationalist PeaceSociety, founded in 1910: Minute book of the Society, containing correspondencedrafts and circulars; 1910-1921 Annual reports and financial statements ofthe Society; 1911-1914 Circulars and ephemera; 1914-1917 Account book ofthe Society; 1918-1921 Press cuttings concerning, and articles by, HypatiaBradlaugh Bonner; 1905-1917 Copies of Rationalist Peace Quarterly; journal ofthe Rationalist Peace Society, 1912-1913. London and Middlesex ArchaeologicalSociety: A collection of photographs of London, ranging from taken pre-warmarket scenes to photographs of the Cenotaph and other memorials in the1920s. Personal Papers: George Frederick Dutch (b.1894), conscientiousobjector during the First World War and relief worker in France and Polandafter the war. Frederick Porter Wensley (1865-1948) police officer, with materialrelating to the Sidney Street Siege of 1911.Bishopsgate Library OpeningHours: Monday - Tuesday: 9.30am- 5.30pm, Wednesday: 9.30am -8pm, Thursday - Friday: 9.30am- 5.30pm. First Friday of eachmonth: 9.30am - 2pm. Use of theLibrary is free and does not requirereaders to register or make anappointment. Special Collectionsmay be viewed in the ResearchArea. Users are encouraged tocontact the Archive ahead oftheir visit so that material can beprepared before their arrival andregistration is required. Telephone:020 7392 9270. Email:library@bishopsgate.org.ukhttp://twitter.com/#!/BishopsgateInstwww.facebook.com/BishopsgateInstitutewww.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6GAFPHrw4www.flickr.com/people/bishopsgate/Searchablecataloguewww.bishopsgate.org.uk/LibraryCatalogue.aspxBritish CartoonArchive (BCA) atthe Universityof KentBritish CartoonArchivewww.cartoons.ac.uk/British Cartoon Archiveholds artwork dating from1904 that has featured innewspaper editorials andcomment pages, comicstrips, books, journals andmagazines.South EastNationalcollectionPopular culture,Newspapersand journalism,Government andpoliticsImportantNewspapers,printed books,works of artW. K. Haselden (1873 - 1953),David Low (1891 - 1963), WillDyson (1880 - 1938), CarlGiles (1918 - 1995), Sidney‘George’ Strube (1892 -1956), Poy (Percy Fearon)(1874-1948)Catalogued collections: Cartoons published during the era of the First WorldWar by artist: W. K. Haselden (1873 - 1953), who drew the adventures of “Big andLittle Willie”, mocking Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son; David Low (1891 - 1963),who was in Australia during the war but arrived in Britain in 1919 and becamepopular with the Liberal Party; Will Dyson (1880 - 1938), who was an Australianofficial war artist at the front; Carl Giles (1918 - 1995), who referred to the FirstWorld War when working on the Second World War; Sidney ‘George’ Strube(1892 - 1956), who joined the Artists’ Rifles during the First World War and sentcartoons back from France to the Daily Express. Uncatalogued collections:Cartoons by Will Dyson for the Daily Herald. Over 6,000 editorial cartoons byPoy (Percy Fearon) published between 1905 and 1937 in the Evening and SundayChronicle, Evening News and Daily Mail and the Weekly and Daily Dispatch,held as newspaper cuttings and some artwork . During the First World WarFearon served in the National Guard on air-raid duty, and created “Cuthbert”the rabbit as a symbol of those who refused to join the war effort. The characterbecame so well known that, after the war, “Cuthbert” entered the Oxford EnglishDictionary as the slang term for “a man who deliberately avoids military service;especially...by securing a post in a Government office or the Civil Service.”Letters, press cuttings and posters by Sidney ‘George’ Strube. Cartoon ArchiveRapid Digitisation (CARD), a JISC-funded project is focusing on contemporarycollections and collections from the 1950s.BCA at the University of Kent’sTempleman Library: Weekdays9am - 5pm. Users are advised tocontact the Archive before visitingto help them prepare materials inadvance. Telephone and fax: 01227823127. BCA Exhibition Galleriesare only open when the Library isopen and this varies, dependingon whether it is term time orvacation time.Links to enable users to share each pageof the website on over 340 other sitesSearchablecatalogueand digitisedcontentwww.cartoons.ac.uk/search-catalogueText from website: “The cartoonsas well as all other images onour website are under copyrightso if you want to save them ondisk, print them out, publishthem, put them on your websiteor reproduce them in anyother way, you must first getpermission from the copyrightholder. If you would like toreproduce an image from thecatalogue then please contact usfor advice since it most cases wecan give you details on who holdsthe copyright as well as how tocontact them. For publicationpurposes, digital images withsupporting copyright details canbe ordered through the feedbacksection.” “any institution whichholds a licence from JISC is freeto download high-resolutionimages of many cartoons onthe BCA catalogue, includingall of Carl Giles’ work. There isno charge for a JISC Licence,and if your institution obtainsone you can use these highresolutionimages for learningand teaching. For details of thisscheme visit the JISC Collectionswebsite at www.jisc-collections.ac.uk”Page 21