TitleWorld War One collection
ReferenceEVT/WW1
Date
1914-2020
Production date 1914 - 2020
Scope and ContentConvoy Sketches by AN Cotterell; War Emergency Workers' Committee circular letter regarding various issues (8 Aug 1914); Handwritten letter from maintenance staff at H Bessemer and Co requesting an increase in their war bonus (30 May 1916); Letter from Leigh Local Labour Advisory Board to the secretary of the Oldham board regarding unrest in the engineering industry (31 May 1917); Ministry of Munitions circular letter regarding bad timekeeping (27 Jun 1917); Letter from HS Lindsay regarding nominations for workers to visit the front (11 Mar 1918); Copy of an Open Letter to British Soldiers (1918); Directory of Joint Standing Industrial Councils interim industrial reconstruction committees and trade boards (1919); From the shadows of war and empire: perspectives of colonised peoples on world war one - Southern Voices exhibition catalogue (2017); miscellaneous papers
War Emergency: Workers National Committee minutes 24 Aug-14 Dec 1914; 21 Jun 1917; 26 Feb-10 Oct 1918
Oversized Box: Press cutting of full page advertisement from the Neutrality League (Halifax Evening Courier, 4 Aug 1914)
Digital recordings: The forgotten war: World War I in Africa - Invisible Histories/Black History Month talk by Marika Sherwood (20 Oct 2015); Justice for Alice Wheeldon! - Invisible Histories talk by Chloe Mason (16 Mar 2016); Communities of resistance: patterns of dissent in Britain during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Cyril Pearce (30 Mar 2016); The real rebels of WW1 - Invisible Histories talk by Alison Ronan (24 May 2017)
Online talks: Drums of Armageddon - Invisible Histories talk by Ian Bullock (17 Jun 2020); Working Class Hero: Ted Gill of Abertillery - Invisible Histories talk by Pete Strong (11 Nov 2020)
War Emergency: Workers National Committee minutes 24 Aug-14 Dec 1914; 21 Jun 1917; 26 Feb-10 Oct 1918
Oversized Box: Press cutting of full page advertisement from the Neutrality League (Halifax Evening Courier, 4 Aug 1914)
Digital recordings: The forgotten war: World War I in Africa - Invisible Histories/Black History Month talk by Marika Sherwood (20 Oct 2015); Justice for Alice Wheeldon! - Invisible Histories talk by Chloe Mason (16 Mar 2016); Communities of resistance: patterns of dissent in Britain during the First World War - Invisible Histories talk by Cyril Pearce (30 Mar 2016); The real rebels of WW1 - Invisible Histories talk by Alison Ronan (24 May 2017)
Online talks: Drums of Armageddon - Invisible Histories talk by Ian Bullock (17 Jun 2020); Working Class Hero: Ted Gill of Abertillery - Invisible Histories talk by Pete Strong (11 Nov 2020)
Extent1 folder, 1 bound volume, 1 item and 6 digital recordings
Physical descriptionRecording durations: 1 hr. 10 min; 56 min; 1 hr 10 min; 1 hr 1 min; 59 min
LanguageEnglish
Related object
Persons keywordWar Emergency Workers' National Committee, Ministry of Munitions, Neutrality League, Wheeldon, Alice, Mason, Chloe, Pearce, Cyril, Ronan, Alison, Women's Peace Crusade, Bullock, Ian, Gill, Ted, Strong, Pete
SubjectWorld War One (1914-1918), Colonies
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfonds
Normal locationAG World War One Box 3 (Rm 37); AG Oversized Box 5 (World War One folder) (Rm 34); Digital Resource