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SUMMARY:WWII SCA exhibition [draft]
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day we are presenting an 
 exhibition highlighting the Patten Second World War Collection held by the 
 Special Collections and Archives in the Library. \n\nPeter Patten 
 (1928-2005) was a collector of paper ephemera published in Second World War 
 era. He amassed a collection of more than 1000 leaflets\, booklets and 
 other paper items\, which was donated to Lancaster University in the late 
 1980s. \n\nThe collection consists of materials covering a broad range of 
 topics\, a large proportion of which were published or sanctioned by the 
 British Government. These include ration books\, leaflets providing 
 information about cooking and preserving food on a wartime diet\, and air 
 raid precaution booklets that provided advice to British citizens on how to 
 protect themselves against bombing raids and gas attacks.\n\nOther 
 documents in the collection relate to military organisations including the 
 Royal Air Force\, British Army\, Navy\, Fire Service and Home Guard. There 
 are several propaganda documents about the German\, Soviets and other 
 nations’ military organisations and a small number of books written in 
 the German language.\n\nTheatre programmes\, comedy and music publications 
 reflect people’s social and leisure interests\, whilst political papers 
 show their differing responses to the war effort and hopes for the 
 future.\n\nMany documents within the collection would not have been 
 considered appropriate for retention by official organisations at the time. 
 Their preservation through Patten’s efforts has secured a valuable 
 insight into the lives of ordinary British citizens and the administrative 
 work of British Government Departments during the Second World War.\n\nThe 
 exhibition was developed by MA student Janet Stewart during her HIST491 
 Outreach\, Heritage and Public History Placement in our Special Collections 
 and Archives. \n\nThe display will be in the Special Collections and 
 Archives exhibition area (near the Safepod on A Floor in the Library) until 
 the end of June. \n
LOCATION:Special Collections Exhibitions area (next to SafePod)
ORGANIZER;CN="Katie Waring":MAILTO:k.waring1@lancaster.ac.uk
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CONTACT;CN="Katie Waring":MAILTO:k.waring1@lancaster.ac.uk
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URL:https://lancaster-uk.libcal.com/calendar/libraryevents/VEday80_display
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