THE FIRST WORLD WAR

SERIES ONE: European War, 1914-1919, The War Reserve Collection (WRA-WRE) from Cambridge University Library

Part 5: The Royal Army Medical Corps, Red Cross and other Ancillary Series

Part 6: The War at Sea and the War in the Air

The Nature and Scope of the Microfilm Project

The availability of the complete card catalogue and manuscript listings will clearly be of great benefit to scholars wishing to understand the full range of materials for the study of the First World War.

However, to reproduce all of the items within the entire Cambridge War Reserve Collection WRA-WRE would not be desirable, as it does include some material which would be common to many collections - for instance:  Parliamentary Papers and prominent monographs.

Our selection policy under the guidance of our Consultant Editor, Dr J M Winter, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, has been to approach the collection on a subject basis concentrating on ephemeral materials, manuscript and rare printed items not likely to be held by most other libraries.

We have identified specific subject themes for each part of the microfilm project.

ie:

Part 1: The Card Catalogue Index and Manuscript Listings

Part 2: Personal Narratives and Reminiscences

Part 3: Allied Propaganda and the First World War

Part 4: German Propaganda and the First World War

Part 5: The Royal Army Medical Corps, Red Cross and other Auxiliary Services

Part 6: The War at Sea and the War in the Air

Part 7: Economics, Finance and Socialism

Part 8: Russian Affairs, Bolshevism and the Eastern Front

Part 9: Peace, Versailles and the League of Nations

Part 10: The Memory of War

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