| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/29/2 |
| Title | 'Air Raid Precautions' |
| Date | 1935 - 1941 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT General Secretaries), Florence Key (Secretary of the NUWT Legal and Tenure Committee), members of the NUWT and regarding the implementation and effects of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) and evacuation on teachers, teaching and school children.
The correspondence covers:
Teacher's reports on the effects of evacuation
Report of a deputation to London County Council regarding evacuation, teacher's allowances for billets, holidays for teacher's who have been evacuated and various other issues around evacuation
List of Resolutions compiled by London teachers evacuated to Hertfordshire
Reports of effects of ARP on particular schools and districts, including take-over of classrooms for ARP, conditions of billets in areas where children and teachers have been evacuated
Examples of differentiation in treatment of girls and boys in school evacuation camps and in terms of allocated rations
Allowances for women teachers to return home from evacuated areas at weekends
Members requests for help and advice from Legal and Tenure Committee regarding financial hardship as a result of evacuation
Difficulties in maintaining branch meetings and communication due to evacuation of members
Members requests for help and advice from Legal and Tenure Committee regarding ARP and evacuation policies implemented by Local Education Committees
Education in wartime policies from various Local Education Committees
Reports from members of their working conditions in evacuated areas, including school facilities and equipment and buildings
Curtailment of holidays due to evacuation
Concerns over the use of coastal areas deemed 'vulnerable areas' for school camps
Teacher's Allowances and discussion of how much teacher's should pay for billets
Reports from teachers of the living conditions of their allocated billets
Reports from teachers of the extraneous duties they are being asked to undertake
Circulars from the Board of Education regarding evacuations billets, and use of schools for ARP purposes
Teacher's duties in war time
Use of schools as rest centres and employment of teachers in rest centres
Fire watching duties expected of teachers
Publications:
NUWT handbill on ARP
'The menace of chemical warfare to civilian populations', Arthur J. Gillian, Chemical Workers Union
'Poison Gas', Union of Democratic Control
'Behind the gas mask - an exposure of the proposed Air Defence Measures', British Section Women's World Committee Against War & Fascism
Press cuttings regarding:
'Government camps for evacuated schools', in 'The London Teacher', 09/02/1940
Use of schools for ARP purposes
Rest centres and homelessness as a result of air raids |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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