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The Consolidated Circular was a first attempt by the Home Office to update, expand and replace previous guidance to local authorities on emergency planning. The Circular looks in great detail at Civil Defence and peacetime emergency plans.

A Report by the Home Office Working Party established to consider advice from the Medical Research Council's Committee on Protection Against Ionizing Radiations on Radiation Hazards in Nuclear War.

Joint report for the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee, the Planning Committee and the Transport Committee of the Greater London Committee following an initiative of Manchester City Council to call on the Government to refrain from manufacturing or positioning nuclear weapons within the Greater London area.

Report containing a summary of the new Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions) Regulations and recommendations for the Public Services and Fire Brigade Committee Staff Committee of the Greater London Council.

Extracts from GLC report P1001 (20.12.83)

Contains correspondence between the Greater London Council and the Home Office regarding the Home Office's request for local authorities to complete preparation plans required by Civil Defence Regulations 1983. Also includes a report from a GLC meeting to discuss the Home Office request.

Presscuttings, correspondence and Hansard notes on Exercise 'Brave Defender', which was a 'home defence' exercise that took place from 2-13 September 1985 to give training to the new Home Service Force 9HSF), a volunteer soldier body (likened to 'Dad's Army') whose function would have been to guard 'key points' against the Soviet 'Spetsnaz'.

A paper considering whether the partial evacuation of residents is a realistic possibility.

A study by Engineers for Nuclear Disarmament, a group of professional engineers concerned at the devastation a nuclear attack upon Britain would cause.

A paper examining the issue of civil preparedness for possible chemical or biological attacks against the backdrop of the controversial status of Civil Defence in the United Kingdom.

An article tracing the evolution of smart weapons and identifying the key technical advances which have made the weapons possible.

A conference paper

A survey to discover attitudes towards nuclear attacks and what Londoners think about preparations that can be made to protect London from the effects of a nuclear attack.

This report comprises the reports made by Parish of St Mary, Newington to the Charity Commission as a result of an inquiry held in every Parish in London into Endowments.
Contains a report of 1826 relating to John Marshall's Charity, Henry Smith's Charity, Simmonds' Charity, Humphrey William's Charity, Ann Cannon's Charity, Robert Hidson's Charity, Mason's Charity, Giles's Charity, Mary Atkinson's Charity, De Guiffardienne's Charity, Brandon's Charity, The Elephant & Castle Charity, King & Queen Charity, John Walter's Almshouses, The United Parochial National Charity & Sunday Schools, Samuel Brown's Charity, Board School Flint Street, Walworth, Southwark and Walworth Infant School, York Street, Walworth, Mann's Annuity Fund, Elizabeth Apostle's Charity, Henry Clark Barlow's Charity, The Walworth Common Estate, including the Old Workhouse Site and Manor Place Estate Metropolitan Tabernacle Almshouses & Schools, John Hollis's Charity, Elizabeth Seward's Charity, Page's Charity-Water's Charity, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Camberwell Road, Walworth, South London (Borough) Jewish Schools, St Peter's Walworth National Schools, The Charities of Mary and Elizabeth Boyman, Joseph Weaver's Charity, Miss Jones's Gift, Holy Trinity National Schools, Noble's Charity, Gifts of George Bartlett, Elizabeth Garrett and Thomas Perrin to Holy Trinity District Visiting Society, The St. Matthew's Lion Street, Church of England Schools, St John's Walworth Infants' National School, Barlow Street, The Beresford Chapel Fund and Martin's Charity.

References Hannah Bayley, Ambrose Bennett, Samuel Ward Copping, Catherine Embleton, Thomas Gataker, Thomas Hart, Robert Shafto Hawks, Hay's of the Caot and Cloack Charity, Mary Horncastle, Poor's Land, Henry Smith, John Sprunt, Wiliam Stevens and Roger Tweedy Charities