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| Description | Correspondence between the NUWT, the Board of Education, Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel Women's Voluntary Services, the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and the Women's Organsations Committee for Economic Information regarding the effects of war on civil and social life. The majority of the material deals with fuel efficiency campaigns during and immediately following the Second World War.
The correspondence covers:
Campaigns to eradicate/lessen world poverty and famine
Extended school services in England
Report of a conference held in Zurich on the effects of war on children
Post-war European recovery
Fuel recovery and shortages
Reports and information on a National Fuel Economy Campaign
NUWT enquiry regarding whether courses organised by the Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel will come out of public funds
Minutes and reports of meetings of the Main Committee of Women's Organisations on Domestic Fuel Efficiency at the Ministry of Fuel and Power
Proposed collaboration of women's organisations in a Domestic Fuel Efficiency Campaign
Gas and electricity economy campaign
Letter from Sir Richard Acland (Member of Parliament) sent to NUWT with a leaflet on world poverty 'Time to Wake Up!'
Constitution and information on the Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel
NUWT requests for copies of a Coal Utilisation Council leaflet '7 ways to make coal go further'
NUWT request for copies of a leaflet on 'Domestic fuel saving methods and the reading of meters'
Leaflets and pamphlets including:
'Stop bombing civilians!', Bombing Restriction Committee, 1943
Leaflets and Bulletins issued by the Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel and the Ministry of Fuel and Power
6 posters issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power for a national campaign 'Watch Your Meters' to save fuel (30 x 20cm) and 1 smaller (14x10cm). One of these posters was designed by Reginald Mount.
Publications including:
Annual Report, Industrial and Domestic Coal Consumer's Council, 1951 and 1952
Annual Report, 1953 and 1954, Industrial Coal Consumer's Council
Annual Report, 1950, Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel
Food Education Memos - 'Salads and vegetables', 'Milk' and 'Good fare in war-time' - issued by the Board of Education, 1940 - 1941
'The Domestic Front - war-time cookery, make-do and mend, fuel economy, health, salvage', two editions, 1945
Board of Education circulars and memorandum including:
'Central heating in schools etc', 1944
'The schools in war-time - nature study out of doors', 1941
'The schools in war-time - catering for Harvest Camps', 1945
Board of Education memorandum on the reduction of restrictions on camping for young people and youth groups
'Economy in water', 1944
'Preservation of fruit by schools', 1948
'Cooks for school harvest camps', 1946
'Collection of rose hips', 1947
'Food Education', 1940 and 1941
Press cuttings regarding:
'The Conference 'Fuel and the Future' of the Ministry of Fuel and Power', report reprinted from the Journal of the Institute of Fuel, October 1946
Shortage of school text books
War-time standard working hours and increase in working hours
Concerns over the health dangers of spending too long in air raid shelters
Concern over control of youth in dimly lit air raid shelters |