Collections
Browse the A-Z listing of a selection of cross-disciplinary collections relating to World War One. This list includes all resources – hard copy, digital and website – that might be valuable to researchers.
Advertising collections
The History of Advertising Trust preserves the advertising-related archives of numerous consumer goods and other companies, leading advertising agencies, branding associations, designers and artists. These include Heinz, HP Foods and Beecham.
Repository: History of Advertising Trust
AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 Area
AIM25 aggregates collection level descriptions of archives held in more than 130 institutions in the London area, including universities, local authorities, learned and scientific societies and cultural organisations. 18,000 descriptions span 500 years of history and numerous topics including war, politics, geography, medicine and technology, art, music and literature.Repository: Online / Website
Air Force records
Repository: The National Archives
Allenby, Field Marshal Edmund (Henry Hynman)
Private papers of Field Marshal Edmund (Henry Hynman) Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (1880-1936)
Repository: King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
AMS Museum collections
The four collections of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC), Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) are held at the AMS Museum in Keogh Barracks, Mytchett in Surrey.
Repository: Army Medical Services Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett
Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest online library of family history information
Repository: Online / Website
Archive collections
The Science Museum Archives contain a wealth of detail relating to the history of science and technology, including war.
Repository: Science Museum
Archive, manuscript & museum collection
Archive and manuscript collections and museum collection of the Royal College of Surgeons. Museum items include portraits of reconstructive surgery, instrument sets and individual items of surgical equipment.
Repository: Royal College of Surgeons: Hunterian Museum and Archives
Archives
Archives covering five Metropolitan Districts within West Yorkshire, namely Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.
Repository: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Archives & records of Bethlem, Maudsley, Warlingham Park Hospitals, Bridewell & Bethlem
Archives of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and its predecessors, including the records of Bethlem, the Maudsley, and Warlingham Park Hospitals, and the joint records of Bridewell and Bethlem
Repository: Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives
Archives and manuscripts
'Archives and manuscript collections' covering a wide variety of printed, typescript and manuscript material and newspaper cuttings relating to the war.
Repository: British Library
Archives and Manuscripts Collections
The Royal College of Physicians manuscript collections include war medals, diaries and patient casebooks relevant to the First World War.
Repository: Royal College of Physicians: Heritage Centre
Archives Hub
The Archives Hub 'provides a gateway to thousands of the UK’s richest archives. Representing over 180 institutions across the country, the Archives Hub is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources'.Repository: Online / Website
Archives of the BMA
Archives of the BMA (founded 1832) including archive copies of the British Medical Journal.
Repository: British Medical Association (BMA) Archives
Archives of the RBNA
Archives of the Royal British Nurses' Association, founded in 1887 as a professional nurses' association.
Repository: King's College London: Royal British Nurses' Association (RBNA) Archives
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders collection
Repository: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, Stirling
Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Overarching organisation linking together the 136 regimental and corps museums in the UK
Repository: Army Museums Ogilby Trust
Army records
Repository: The National Archives
Art collection
The art collection includes thousands of paintings, prints, drawings and other artwork relevant to the war, including scenes of trenches, tanks and other weapons, soldiers, the ruins of buildings, cemeteries and graves, ships, aircraft, and colonial service personnel from across several theatres of operation, and including la
Repository: Imperial War Museum
Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial combines a shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive
Repository: Online / Website
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Additional Help & Resources
This website lists analogue and digital content by repository - archive, library or museum; and also by main collection within the larger repositories.
Links are provided to online catalogues, along with other useful information.
Online resources survey the most heavily used national free and subscription services and independent websites recommended by academic focus groups.
