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

First World War Collections in the UKA preliminary horizon-scanHoldinginstitutionMedia Archivefor CentralEngland (MACE),LeicesterNorthernRegion Film& TelevisionArchive,MiddlesbroughNorth WestFilm Archive,ManchesterNorth WestFilm Archive,ManchesterScreen ArchiveSouth East,BrightonShropshireArchivesShropshireArchivesSomersetHeritage CentreSouth West Filmand TelevisionArchive,PlymouthWessex Filmand SoundArchive,WinchesterItem/ collection Link to website Brief description Region Type oforganisationMoving imagearchiveMoving imagearchive for theNorth East ofEnglandOver 5,000 filmsmade in oraround GreaterManchester,Lancashire,Cheshire andMerseyside.Films relating toentertainment onthe home frontduring the FirstWorld War.Over 5,000 filmsmade in oraround GreaterManchester,Lancashire,Cheshire andMerseyside.Films relating tomemorialisingthe dead soldiersand greeting theliving at the closeof the First WorldWar.Moving imagearchiveHistory ofShropshire andTelfordHistory ofShropshire andTelfordRecords of localgovernment,businesses andcommunitiesduring the FirstWorld War.Moving imagearchiveAV 186: BritishPathe News1900-1950www.macearchive.org/Home.htmlwww.nrfta.org.uk/home.htmlwww.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/aboutus/aboutus.htmlwww.shropshire.gov.uk/archives.nsfwww.shropshire.gov.uk/archives.nsfwww1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/www.swfta.org.uk/index.htmlwww3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa/wfsa-collections.htmMedia archive for East andWest Midlands.Collection of films relatingto the history of the NorthEast of England, which isdefined as the Tees Valleyarea, County Durham,Northumberland and Tyneand Wear.Films coveringentertainment on thehome front ranging fromsports’ days to whippetracing.Film show crowds outto cheer soldiers ontheir return and solemndedication ceremoniesfor new memorials forthe dead.Archive of moving imagesmade in or featuring theSouth East of Englandsince the late nineteenthcentury.Historical collection ofShropshire and TelfordHistorical collection ofShropshire and TelfordRecords of the county’sgovernment, families andbusinesses during theFirst World War.Archive of moving imagesmade in or featuring theSouth West of Englandsince the late nineteenthcentury.British Pathe Newsprogrammes broadcastin cinemas during thewar to inform the publicand encourage feelings ofpatriotism.East MidlandsNorth EastNorth WestNorth WestSouth EastWest MidlandsWest MidlandsSouth WestSouth WestSouth EastRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumRegionalarchive/museumSubject area Status Medium Key individuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Networking Online access Link to website Terms of useRecruitment,conscriptionand tribunals,Military service(British)Disability,MemorialsImportant Film Adelbert Brownlow-Cust(1844 - 1921)A small selection of films made during the First World War period that recordroyal visits to the East and West Midlands, information about local thermalmineral water baths and aspects of military service. For instance Recruiting Dayin Grantham (1915), a silent film showing Earl Brownlow, Lord Lieutenant ofLincolnshire, urging men to enlist and men outside a recruiting office. MachineGun Corps Sport (1916), a silent film showing soldiers of the Machine Gun Corpsplaying military-style sports at Belton Park, Grantham. Market Harborough:Public Welcome to Service Men (1919), a silent film produced by Cardeauxs Ltdshowing a procession of soldiers, crowds cheering speeches and a number ofsoldiers receiving medals. MACE also holds films that feature interviews withFirst World War veterans and changes to local war memorialsImportant Film Ferdinand Foch (1871-1923) Cowen House, Marshal Foch, Costumes & Garden (1922): The opening of Joseph& Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors at Benwell inNewcastle; and the unveiling of the Memorial to the Tyneside Irish & ScottishBrigades at La Boisselle by Marshall Foch; third section is a costume party.There are a number of films from the late 1920s and 1930s that illustrate life inthe North East in the decades following the First World War.Popular culture Important Film Southport College Sports (1914) 2 mins, 23 secs: Shots of children taking part insports events including an egg and spoon race and a wheelbarrow race. WhippetRacing (1914) 47 secs: Silent, black and white film produced by Pathe.Memorials Important Film Bury Welcomes Her Returned Heroes (c.1918) 1 min 20 secs: Soldiers processthrough Bury, spectators on either side of the road. The Earl of StamfordUnveils the Chapel Street Roll of Honour, Altrincham April 5th 1919, 5 mins 15secs: Procession through streets and unveils of plaque. Peace Celebrations atHaslingden July 19th 1919, 8 mins 26 secs: Crowds thronging streets, childrenmay-pole dancing, procession of war veterans and bands.Women Important Film Godalming Church Parade & Ambulance Presentation (1911 and 1917): Localnewsreel shows a civil march through Godalming before the war followed bythe presentation of a motorised ambulance to the Red Cross in 1917. ChristmasShopping; Surrey Women War Workers; The Path of Duty was the Path ofGlory (compilation of three films made near Godalming, Christmas Shoppingand Surrey Women War Workers were made ca. 1917; Path of Duty was shotby Gaumont British News in 1914). Christmas shoppers on the high street,women workers pose with farming equipment during an inter-farm competition,opening of the memorial to John (Jack) Phillips, the ‘Titanic’ hero, in Godalming,on 15 April 1914. WWI Royal Flying Corps Training Film (ca. 1917), incompletetraining film. The 5th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment at the Tower of London(1915). “Lest We Forget” Disabled Soldiers Day Out At Margate (1934).Military service(British)Military service(British)Military service(British),Military serviceRegularRegularRegularPrivate papers,photographiccollectionsPrivate papers,photographiccollectionsPrivate papers,institutionalrecords,photographiccollections, oraltestimonyWar Diaries of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry as well as the papers oflocal families, whose correspondence and writings describe life during theFirst World War. For example “Document Ref: 552/11/3801-3802: Lists of menenlisted from Montford Estate during World War I. Remarks as to whetherwounded, killed, missing or discharged.” Local newspapers: ShrewsburyChronicle and Wellington Journal. Rolls of honour.War Diaries of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry as well as the papers oflocal families, whose correspondence and writings describe life during theFirst World War. For example “Document Ref: 552/11/3801-3802: Lists of menenlisted from Montford Estate during World War I. Remarks as to whetherwounded, killed, missing or discharged.” Local newspapers: ShrewsburyChronicle and Wellington Journal. Rolls of honour.Somerset Light Infantry Archive: Records of the three-hundred year historyof the regiment have been fully catalogued through a Heritage Lottery-fundedproject. The collection is divided into official and non-official documents. Officialsection includes war diaries, medal rolls, orders books, court martial andpunishment books, casualty lists and other official documents. Non-officialsection includes photographs, postcards, illustrations, private papers ofindividual soldiers, captured enemy documents and published materials. FirstWorld War diary of Arthur Haines, Somerset Light Infantry. Poetry of WalterBailey of the 6th battalion Somerset Light lnfantry, who served in Flandersand Egypt and was killed in action in 1918. Records of the North SomersetYeomanry that served with the 6th Cavalry Brigade in France during the FirstWorld War. Papers of Private J Davis of the North Somerset Yeomanry. Papersof the Portishead branch of the British Red Cross including First World Warorders. Private papers: Papers of Alan Cecil Tarbat of Wells (1905-1978) and theTarbat family including letters from soldiers thanking them for the gifts theyhad sent. Records relating to Hilda Sturridge who served in the Women’s LandArmy during the First World War. Papers of Fox family of Gerbestone, one ofwhom served in the RAMC. Transcripts of burials and monumental inscriptionsfor Nettlecombe. Papers of families who have lived in Somerset for severalcenturies. Oral history of veterans, recorded in the 1970s.Memorials Regular Film No online catalogue. Film collection includes interviews with First World Warveterans over subsequent decades.Propaganda Regular Film For example: ‘Off To The Front’ shows the BEF departing from Southampton. In‘Hydroplane’ early seaplanes are show on board the Hibernia, at Portland Navalbase. Original film held by British Pathe.Media Archive for Central England,1 Salisbury Road, Leicester.Contact MACE for informationregarding their Bespoke DVDService, ordering initially low rescopies of films already digitisedor to arrange to vice the Archive.Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5066.Email: macearchive@le.ac.ukNRFTA, Constantine Building,School of Arts and Media, TeessideUniversity, Middlesbrough, TS13BA: Opening hours: Monday -Thursday: 9am - 5pm and Friday:9am - 4.30pm. Contact the Archiveto make a viewing appointment:Telephone: 01642 384022. Email:enquiries@nrfta.org.ukNorth West Film Archive,Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, Minshull House, 47-49Chorlton Street, Manchester,M1 3EU: Monday - Friday: 9am- 5pm, by appointment only. Anotice period of three weeks isrequired to secure the availabilityof material. Contact by telephoneon 0161 247 3097 or by email atn.w.filmarchive@mmu.ac.ukMonday - Friday: 9am - 5pm byappointment only. A notice periodof three weeks is required tosecure the availability of material.Screen Archive South East Office,University of Brighton: Viewingby appointment only. Telephone:+44 (0)1273 643213 or email:screenarchive@brighton.ac.ukWednesday: 10am - 5pm, Thursday:10am - 8pm, Friday: 10am - 5pmand Saturday: 10am - 4pm.Reader’s ticket required.Wednesday: 10am - 5pm, Thursday:10am - 8pm, Friday: 10am - 5pmand Saturday: 10am - 4pm.Reader’s ticket required.Somerset Heritage Centre, BrunelWay, Langford Mead, NortonFitzwarren, Taunton, TA2 6SF:Opening hours: Monday: 1pm -5pm, Tuesday - Friday: 9am - 5pmand alternate Saturdays: 9am -1pm, by appointment only. Contactthe archive by telephone on 01823337600 for an appointment or on01823 278805 to make a researchenquiry. Users can also contactthe archive by email at archives@somerset.gov.ukSouth West Film and TelevisionArchive, Melville Building, RoyalWilliam Yard, Stonehouse,Plymouth: Viewing by appointmentonly. Telephone: 01752 202650 oremail info@swfta.org.ukAvailable in video format atHampshire Record Office, SussexStreet, Winchester, Hampshire,SO23 8TH: Monday-Wednesday:9am - 5pm, Thursday: 9am - 8pm,Friday: 9am - 5pm and Saturday:9am - 4pm. Viewing by appointmentonly. Contact the Archive bytelephone on 01962 846154 or byemail at enquiries.wfsa@hants.gov.ukwww.facebook.com/pages/Media-Archive-for-Central-England-MACE/160299978761http://twitter.com/#!/macearchivehttp://macearchive.wordpress.com/www.nrfta.org.uk/blog.htmlwww.facebook.com/pages/North-West-Film-Archive/173586119356181http://twitter.com/#!/Nwfilmarchivewww.facebook.com/pages/North-West-Film-Archive/173586119356181 http://twitter.com/#!/NwfilmarchiveNone specific to collectionwww.flickr.com/photos/shropshirecouncil/www.flickr.com/photos/shropshirecouncil/None specific to the collectionNone specific to collectionhttp://twitter.com/#!/WessexFilmSearchablecatalogueand digitisedcontentSearchablecatalogueand digitisedcontentSearchablecatalogueSearchablecatalogueSearchablecatalogue(incomplete)and digitisedcontentContactinformationSearchablecatalogueSearchablecatalogue(incomplete)ContactinformationDigitisedcontentwww.macearchive.org/AdvancedSearch.htmlwww.nrfta.org.uk/explore.htmlwww.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk:591/search/www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk:591/search/http://sasesearch.brighton.ac.uk/Email enquiries: archives@shropshire.gov.ukhttp://archives.shropshire.gov.uk/www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/Email queries to: info@swfta.org.ukShort clips at: www3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa/film-clips.htmTen percent of the catalogue hasassociated digital content. Digitalfilm clips can be shared on socialnetworking sites and a link to theclip sent by email.Clips can be viewed and sharedonline. Users need to contactthe Archive directly to arrangecopies of any material forcommercial or non-commercialuse. In some cases the Archivedoes not own the copyright tomaterial in its collection andso copyright would have to besought from a third party.Digitised film clips can beviewed online. Contact thearchive for further informationabout licensing material forcommercial or non-commercialuses.Digitised film clips can beviewed online. Contact thearchive for further informationabout licensing material forcommercial or non-commercialuses.Digital stills and clips can beviewed on the website. Themoving image video files on thissite may not be downloaded,transferred, copied or reproducedin whole or in partin any manner or in or on anymedia without the prior writtenconsent of Screen Archive SouthEast. The text and still images inthis website may be accessed,printed and downloaded in anunaltered form with copyrightacknowledged, on a temporarybasis for personal study whichis not for a direct or indirectcommercial use.Digitisation service for maps,manuscripts and printed books,subject to copyright.No digitised content availableonline.No digitised content availableonline. Reference numbersfor each item allows users tomake enquiries directly withthe archives. Each item has anaccess statues, most are ‘open’but some are ‘mixed’. Visitorsto the archives can purchasea photographic licence to takephotographs. If visitors intendto publish these photographsan additional permission formneeds to be completed.No digitised content availableonline.Each clip is accompanied bya reference number that canbe used to contact the archivedirectly about viewing theitem or licensing the item forcommercial or non-commercialuse.Page 31