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1 - Emergency Committee draft minute book
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Collapse 1 - Civil Defence and Air Raid precaution circulars 1 - Civil Defence and Air Raid precaution circulars
1 - Civil Defence circulars
2 - Civil Defence circulars
3 - Original index to numbers ARP memos 1-155
4 - National association of air wardens Air Defence League memo on ARP communications
5 - ARP memo: Air Raid Precautions
6 - Address by Wing Commander EJ Hodsoll, assistant secretary of state in charge of the air raid precautions department of the Home Office
7 - ARP memorandum 1 (1st edition): Treatment of casualties and decontamination of personnel
8 - ARP memorandum: Anti gas training
9 - ARP memorandum: assistance offered by the St John Ambulance brigade and the British Red Cross
10 - ARP memorandum: Anti gas training
11 - ARP memorandum 2 (2nd edition): Rescue parties and clearance of debris
12 - ARP memorandum 1 (2nd edition): Organisation of air raid casualties services
13 - ARP memorandum: Summary of position
14 - ARP memorandum C1: Air raid precautions for gas undertakings
15 - ARP memorandum C3 (1st edition): Air raid precautions for water undertakings
16 - ARP memorandum No 1(2nd edition): Organisation of air raid casualties services
17 - ARP memorandum No 1(2nd edition): rescue parties and clearance of debris
18 - ARP memorandum C2 (1st edition): Air raid precautions for electricity undertakings
19 - War deaths: Emergency mortuary and burial arrangements
20 - ARP: Badges for volunteers
21 - ARP: Letter from Home Office Fire Division
22 - ARP: Role of the police
23 - ARP memorandum 4 (1st edition): Air raid wardens
24 - ARP: Anti gas training
25 - ARP: Anti gas training
26 - ARP memorandum 5 (1st edition): Anti-gas training
27 - ARP: Letter from Home Office Fire Division
28 - ARP: First aid posts
29 - ARP: Experiments in anti-gas protection of houses
30 - Experiments in Anti-Gas protection of houses
31 - ARP memorandum 1 (2nd edition): Organisation of the air raid precautions
32 - An atlas of gas poisoning (2nd edition):
33 - ARP memorandum 4 (1st edition): Air raid precautions for sewage and storm water pumping stations and sewerage systems
34 - Memorandum on emergency fire brigade organisation
35 - ARP: The protection of foodstuffs against poison gas
36 - ARP memo: air raid precautions act, 1937
37 - ARP memo: civilian anti-gas schools
38 - ARP memo: lighting restrictions
39 - ARP memo: air raid precautions general schemes
40 - ARP memo: first aid posts
41 - ARP memo: air raid warning signals
42 - ARP memorandum 6 (1st edition): Local communications and reporting of air raid damage
43 - ARP memo: fire service auxiliary uniforms
44 - ARP memo: local storage and distribution of civilian respirators
45 - ARP memo: air raid precautions school
46 - ARP memo: badge for auxiliary fire service volunteers
47 - ARP memo: earmarking vehicles which would be required in emergency for ARP service
48 - ARP memo: approval of expenditure regulations, memorandum on special points arising under the fire precautions schemes
49 - ARP memo: a guide to the construction of a stretcher-carrying fitment
50 - ARP memo: maps for use in connection with air raid precautions schemes
51 - ARP memo: badges for volunteers
52 - ARP Act 1937: Air raid general precautions scheme
53 - Circular: Air Raid Precautions Act 1937 summary of provisions
54 - ARP memorandum C1 (2nd edition): Air raid precautions for gas undertakings
55 - ARP handbook 6 (1st edition): Air raid precautions in factories and business premises
56 - ARP memorandum 4: Air raid wardens
57 - ARP handbook 7 (2nd edition): Anti-gas precautions for merchant shipping
58 - ARP memorandum 5 (2nd edition): Anti-gas training
59 - ARP memorandum 7 (1st edition): Personnel requirements for air raid general and fire precautions services, and the police service
60 - ARP memorandum 6 (1st edition): Local communications and reporting of air raid damage
61 - ARP handbook 3 (1st edition): Medical treatment of gas casualties
62 - ARP memorandum 3 (2nd edition): Organisation of decontamination services
63 - ARP handbook 1 (2nd edition): Personal protection against gas
64 - Structural precautions against... (1st edition): Police buildings structural protection against air attack
65 - Institution of Structural Engineers: Report on air raid precautions
66 - Institution of Structural Engineers: Report of the committee on air raid precautions
67 - Auxiliary fire service uniforms and equipment specifications
68 - Stages in the preparation of a local authority's air raid general precautions scheme
69 - ARP memorandum 8: The air raid warning system
70 - ARP handbook 8 (1st edition): The duties of air raid wardens
71 - ARP: The protection of foodstuffs against poison gas
72 - Air Raid precautions handbook No 2: first aid and nursing for gas casualties
73 - ARP memorandum C1 (2nd edition): Air raid precautions for gas undertakings
74 - ARP memorandum 8 (1st edition): The air raid warning system
75 - ARP memorandum 7 (1st edition): Personnel requirement for air raid general and fire precautions services, and the police service
76 - ARP memorandum 3 (1st edition): Organisation of decontamination services
77 - ARP handbook 8 (1st edition): The duties of the air raid wardens
79 - ARP training handbook 1 (2nd edition): Personal protection against gas
80 - Emergency Medical Services memorandum 1: Structural and other precautions against Air Raid Risks in Hospitals
81 - ARP: Training of air raid wardens
82 - ARP: Directions for the erection and sinking of the galvanised corrugated steel shelter, standard and small
83 - ARP: fire service commission
84 - ARP Defence: The shelter problem
85 - ARP: revised syllabuses of anti-gas training
86 - ARP: first aid posts and points
87 - Air raid shelters: Report on the Lord Privy seal's conference
88 - Air Raid Precautions: war time lighting restrictions for industrial and commercial premises
89 - Home Office ARP Department: Directions for the erection of domestic surface shelters
90 - Publications on ARP
91 - ARP: provision of air raid shelter
92 - Civil defence: Your food in war time
93 - Civil defence: Evacuation why and how
94 - Civil defence: Your gas mask, how to keep it and how to use it and masking your windows
95 - Civil defence: Some things you should know if war should come
96 - ARP in industry: a revised and amplified description of the Civil Defence Act, as it affects owners and occupiers of Industrial and commercial establishments
97 - Home Office ARP Department: Preliminary memorandum on the organisation of air raid precautions service In industrial undertaking and the training and equipment of personnel
98 - ARP memorandum 2 (3rd edition): Rescue parties and clearance of debris
99 - Statutory rules and orders 920: Air raid shelters for persons working in factories, mines and commercial buildings
100 - ARP: civil defence act 1939
101 - Statutory rules and orders 893: Civil defence
102 - Statutory rules and orders 923: Civil defence
103 - Provisional and statutory rules and orders 906: Civil defence, air raid shelter standards and expenditure
104 - Statutory rules and orders 1022: Civil defence appeals
105 - ARP memorandum 11 (1st edition): Gas detection and identification service
106 - ARP memorandum 6 (2nd edition): Local communications and reporting of air raid damage
107 - ARP memorandum 4 (1st edition): Organisation of the air raid wardens' service
108 - National Service: A guide to the ways in which the people of the country may give service - with a message from the Prime Minister
109 - National Service: A guide to the ways in which the people of the country may give service - with a message from the Prime Minister
110 - ARP handbook 2 (3rd edition): First aid and nursing for gas casualties
111 - ARP Department: Pamphlet on shelter from air attack
112 - ARP handbook 11 (1st edition): Camouflage of large installations
113 - ARP handbook 9 (1st edition): Incendiary bombs and fire precautions
114 - Home Office ARP Department: Memorandum on the revised code "air raid shelters for persons working in factories, mines and commercial buildings"
115 - ARP memorandum 9 (1st edition): Notes on training and exercises
116 - Goods vehicles: Organisation of road transport for a defence emergency
117 - ARP memorandum 4 (2nd edition): Organisation of the air raid wardens' service
118 - Home Office ARP Department: Preliminary memorandum on the organisation of air raid precautions services in industrial, etc undertakings and the training and equipment of personnel
119 - ARP memorandum 10 (1st edition): Provision of air raid shelters in basements
120 - ARP memorandum 2: Rescue parties and clearance of debris
121 - ARP: War time lighting restrictions for industrial and commercial premises
122 - ARP: Memorandum on ARP communications and radio relay services
123 - ARP handbook no 5 (1st edition) Structural Defence
124 - ARP Department: A guide to combined exercises with examples 1-5
125 - Air Raid precautions training manual No 1 (1st edition) basic training in air raid precautions
126 - ARP memorandum 12 (1st edition): Protection of windows in commercial and industrial buildings
127 - Notes on the construction, maintenance and replacement of sandbag revetments
128 - ARP memorandum 15 (3rd edition): Care and repair of respirators
129 - Ministry of Home Security: The civilian container extension piece (Contex)
131 - ARP training manual 2B (1st edition): Reinforcement
132 - ARP training bulletin 1
133 - Ministry of Home Security: Ventilation in the black-out
134 - ARP training bulletin 2
135 - Air Raid precautions to be taken by users of ammonia
136 - ARP to be taken by users of ammonia
137 - ARP memorandum 13 (2nd edition): Inspection and repair of respirators and oilskin clothing
138 - ARP training bulletin 3
139 - ARP memorandum 13 (1st edition): Care and repair of respirators
140 - ARP memorandum 16 (1st edition): Emergency protection in factories
141 - Board of Education: Report of a committee representative of the local education authorities of England and Wales appointed to consider the problems of adjusting between authorities the expenditure incurred by them in respect of evacuated school children
142 - Your home as an air raid shelter
143 - Leaflet: The air raid warning system, what it is and how it is operated
144 - Leaflet: Stay where you are
145 - Advert in newspaper: Working after the siren
146 - Ministry of Home Security ARP: Notes on the construction, maintenance and replacement of sandbag revetments
147 - ARP training manual 1 (1st edition): Basic training in air raid precautions
148 - ARP training manual 2 (1st edition): Manual for officers responsible for ARP training
149 - ARP memorandum 16 (1st edition): Emergency protection in factories
150 - ARP memorandum 15 (1st edition): Care and custody of equipment
151 - ARP memorandum 15 (3rd edition): Care and custody of equipment
152 - The detection and identification or war gases (2nd edition): Notes for the use of gas identification officers
153 - Statutory rules and orders 68: Emergency powers (general regulations)
154 - ARP training bulletin 4
155 - Training pamphlet 1: Notes on the detection and reporting of unexploded bombs and shelters
156 - ARP training bulletin 5
157 - Ministry of Home Security Research and Experiments Department: Estimation of sizes of bombs and mines
158 - To be used in civil defence instruction and training: An assessment for a gas attack
159 - ARP: Air Raid casualties on industrial etc premises
160 - ARP training pamphlet 3: Advising the public in the event of invasion
161 - ARP training bulletin 6
162 - ARP memorandum 13 (3rd edition): Inspection and repair of respirators and oilskin clothing
163 - ARP Air raid precautions taken by holders and users of radium
164 - ARP: Protective equipment for persons engaged at first aid posts, separate public cleansing centres affiliated to first aid posts, mobile cleansing units, marking and sorting stations and decontamination centres for civilian clothing
165 - ARP industrial bulletin 1
166 - ARP training bulletin 4
167 - ARP training bulletin 5
168 - Air raids what you must know and what you must do
169 - Statutory rules and orders 69: Emergency powers (fire precautions)
170 - Ministry of food: Food and its protection against poison gas
171 - Air raid shelters: Notes on principal provisions
172 - Physical recreation for civil defence workers
173 - How to put up your Morrison Table Shelter
174 - Food and its protection against poison gas (2nd edition): The conservation of food is second only to the preservation of life
175 - Ministry of Home Security: Air raid precautions which should be taken in electro-plating shops
176 - Wearing of war respirators in the presence of ammonia
177 - Structural precautions against incendiary bombs
178 - Fire Prevention (BP) order: Explanatory memorandum for the guidance of appropriate authorities, occupiers of factories, offices, shops and other business premised, and persons working at those premises
179 - Fire Prevention (BP) order 2: Supplement to the explanatory memorandum issued on 12th September 1941, by the ministry of Home security and the Scottish Home Department
180 - Statutory rules and orders 70: Emergency powers (civil defence)
181 - Statutory rules and orders 1411: Emergency powers (fire precautions)
182 - Statutory rules and orders 1412: Emergency powers (civil defence)
183 - ARP training pamphlet 4: Notes on gas tests and exercises
184 - ARP training bulletin 7
185 - ARP training pamphlet 5: Modifications in decontamination technique
186 - Memo for ARP Handbook No 5 (1st edition) structural defence
187 - Borough of Colchester: To parents - care of gas masks
188 - Memorandum on demolition and clearance
189 - Industrial bulletin 2
190 - ARP training bulletin 8
191 - Civil defence training bulletin 9
192 - Industrial bulletin 2
193 - ARP memorandum 15 (3rd edition): Care and custody of equipment
194 - ARP handbook 4 (2nd edition): Decontamination of materials
195 - ARP training pamphlet 5: Modifications in decontamination technique
196 - ARP training pamphlet 4: Notes on gas tests and exercises
197 - ARP memorandum 3 (3rd edition): Organisation of decontamination services
198 - ARP handbook 4A (2nd edition): Decontamination of clothing, including anti gas clothing and equipment, from persistent gases
199 - Ministry of Home Security: Chart of war gases
200 - Ministry of Health and the Department of Health for Scotland: If Hitler uses blister gas, soap and water will help beat him
201 - ARP handbook 14 (1st edition): The fire guards handbook
202 - ARP handbook 9: Incendiary bombs and fire precautions
203 - ARP handbook 4 (2nd edition): Decontamination of materials
204 - ARP handbook 2 (3rd edition): First Aid and nursing casualties
205 - ARP training manual 3 (1st edition): Rescue service manual
206 - Home security circular 35: Demolition, clearance and post-raid salvage consolidating circular
207 - Eastern civil defence region: Syllabus of training of part-time civil defence personnel
208 - Ministry of Home Security: Estimation of sizes of bombs and mines
209 - Rescue from under collapsed concrete slab by means of the special slab hooks
210 - CDT pamphlet 6: Rescue crews from crashed aircraft
211 - Industrial bulletin no. 4
212 - Eastern Civil Defence Region: Instructions to civil defence drivers - care and maintenance of vehicles
213 - Eastern civil defence region instructions to civil defence drivers questions and answers for the learner driver
214 - Industrial bulletin 5
215 - ARP handbook 2 (4th edition): First aid and nursing for gas casualties
216 - ARP memorandum 13 (4th edition): Inspection and repair of respirators and oilskin clothing and decontamination of respirators
217 - Industrial bulletin 6
218 - Civil defence training bulletin 10
219 - Industrial bulletin no. 7 with index to bulletins 1-7
220 - Industrial bulletin no. 9
221 - Civil defence training pamphlet 5: Modifications in decontamination technique
222 - ARP training manual 2B (3rd edition): Reinforcement
223 - Civil defence training pamphlet 2: Objects dropped from the air
224 - Civil defence training pamphlet 1: Notes on the detection and reporting of unexploded missiles
225 - Industrial bulletin 10
226 - Civil defence training pamphlet 7: Notes on the guidance of wardens at rescue incidents
227 - Civil defence training manual 4: Incident control
228 - Statutory rules and orders 1044: Emergency powers (defence) fire guard
229 - Statutory rules and orders 1043: Emergency powers (defence) fire guard
230 - Statutory rules and orders 1045: Emergency powers (defence) fire guard
231 - Statutory rules and orders 916: Emergency powers (defence) the defence (fire guard) regulations, 1943
232 - Ministry of Home Security and the Scottish Home Department: Explanatory memorandum
233 - Basic Training and Operational Training of the Rescue Service
234 - Civil defence training pamphlet 4: Notes on gas tests and exercises
235 - Civil defence training pamphlet 1: Notes on the detection and reporting of unexploded missiles
236 - Consolidated instructions on the disposal of unexploded missiles
237 - Civil defence industrial bulletin 11: Notes on recent raids
238 - Civil defence training pamphlet 6: Rescue of crews from crashed aircraft
239 - ARP memorandum 17 (1st edition): Civil defence uniforms
240 - Civil defence training bulletin 11
241 - Statutory rules and orders 390: Emergency powers (defence) restrictions on lighting
242 - Civil defence training pamphlet 8: Notes on rescue in the presence of blister gas
243 - ARP memorandum 18 (1st edition): Civil defence motor transport
244 - ARP handbook 4 (2nd edition): Decontamination of materials, instructions for handling and treatment of raw materials and other goods contaminated by blister gas
245 - ARP memorandum 11 (3rd edition): Gas detection and identification service
246 - Civil defence industrial bulletin 12: Industrial and commercial concerns
247 - Civil defence industrial bulletin 13: Industrial and commercial concerns
248 - Civil defence training pamphlet 1: Notes on the detection and reporting of unexploded bombs
249 - Civil defence industrial bulletin 14: Industrial and commercial concerns
250 - ARP memorandum 15 (4th edition): Care and custody of equipment
251 - ARP handbook 1 (3rd edition): Personal protection against gas
252 - Civil defence training bulletin no. 12
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