Second World War

Health and welfare

Find records on medical services and maternal and child welfare provisions during the Second World War.

Land

Access information on land settlements, tobacco farms and military maps.

Councils and committees

Find information on financial records and correspondence from Patriotic Funds.

Transport and construction

Access information on roadworks, correspondence about defence buildings, buildings occupied by the army, a railway war manual and the transport of foodstuffs.

Government

Information on civil defence, air-raids, buildings acquired, military camps, defence operations, transport, training, coast-watching, Premier’s powers, bomb disposal, permits and public safety.

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Archival research terms

Record—information of permanent and historic value, often in paper-based form (e.g. a letter, photograph, a map), but can also be a CD, a film or a digital file

Item—a single record or many records, e.g. an item may be a single architectural drawing, a 500-page leather-bound book, or a bundle of correspondence (letters, telegrams, reports)

Series—a group of related items created, received, or used in the same activity

Agency—the Government Agency responsible for creating a series. For example, the Department of Education is the Government agency who created a series of School Admission registers for Runcorn State School. An admission register for Runcorn State School would be considered an item within that series.