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A green, rectangular badge featuring the logo of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street for students on the enrolled nurse course.

A blue, oval badge featuring the new logo and name of the Hospital: it changed name to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1994.

A booklet comprising historical information and extracts from letters together providing an overview of 100 years of nurse training at the hospital. It was compiled by the Librarian of the School of Nursing, the Honorary Hospital Archivist and the Consultant Dermatologist.

A visitors book containing names and addresses of attendees at a two day conference and exhibition celebrating 100 years of nurse training at the hospital. Inserted in the front is a letter from Queen Elizabeth II to the Chief Nursing Officer thanking her for messages of greetings sent by hospital nursing staff on occasion of the centenary. The Queen is the patron of the hospital.

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