TYNE AND WEAR AT WAR IN THE 20TH CENTURY
External Partner: Tyne & Wear Archives Service
Tyne and Wear Archives Service holds a host of collections relating to aspects of 20th century conflict that could be used for undergraduate or MA dissertations. Material mainly relates to the ‘home front’ in the North East, though there are a few small collections relating to combatants.
Broadly collections can be divided into three areas:
- issues arising from the origins, course of and results of World War I
- issues arising from the origins, course of and results of World War II
- issues arising from the Cold War
Useful sources are held in a the collections, notably council and committee minutes, files and reports; industrial collections relating to unions and employers associations and numerous person papers. Areas of interest might include:
- ‘Aliens’, female labour, dilution and ex-servicemen during and after World War I
- Local links to Germany before and after World War II through school exchanges, trade fairs, warship visits, work of charities etc
- Evacuation, air raid precautions, industrial production and relations, links to the Soviet Union, security, morale and civil liberties during World War II
- Civil defence and preparations for disaster during the Cold War.
More information on Tyne and Wear Archives Service, including an online catalogue, can be found at http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/
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