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The unit war diaries (record series WO 95) represent one of the most popular collections held by The National Archives. War diaries were kept for two main reasons: to provide an accurate record of operations for preparing the official history of the war. to collect information that would help make improvements in preparing the army for war.
- Digitised First World War records - First World War portal
We hold a vast collection of documents, letters, diaries,...
- It's a Long Way From Tipperary - First World War portal
It explored the impact of the outbreak of the First World...
- Preserving First World War diaries - The National Archives blog
The project will make this important collection more...
- First World War for a Digital Age - cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The First World War unit war diaries are the most popular...
- Digitised First World War records - First World War portal
- Why digitise?
- Starting Conservation: Initial Survey
- Using Different Methods
- Holding History in Your Hands
Conservators play an important part in digitisation. Documents can be handled multiple times during the process; we ensure they are protected. To reflect this, The National Archives is unique in having a separate team of qualified conservators who work specifically on digitisation projects as part of our Digitisation Services department. The team i...
Our first step was to undertake a condition survey of the collection to understand the various materials and how they had fared over time. Modern wartime papers tend to be poor quality due to the paucity of available raw material; WO 95 is no different. In this sense, the material starts at a disadvantage. Despite this, and given that many were wri...
Once the results of the survey had been analysed, the conservation team researched and tested other conservation repair techniques to see if we could improve efficiency while maintaining our high standards. This research resulted in testing a method set out in a recent peer-reviewed conservation journal which involves pre-applying adhesive (in this...
The more recent phases of the project to digitise the remainder of the series have been made up of smaller selections of approximately 800 boxes at a time. As we predicted, the treatment requirement reduces significantly with each phase, as the documents have been handled much less frequently. The conservators have very strict deadlines for treatme...
The First World War unit war diaries are the most popular records from The National Archives’ First World War collection (file series WO 95) and the first in a series of First World War records to be digitised as part of The National Archives’ centenary programme – First World War 100 – which spans a fiveyear period from June 2014 to -
Jan 14, 2014 · Culture Secretary Maria Miller said: "The National Archives' digitised First World War unit diaries will allow us to hear the voices of those that sacrificed their lives and is even more poignant ...
Jan 14, 2014 · In total, more than 1,200 men from the First Battalion South Wales Borderers were killed during the war. A private war diary kept by one of the First Battalion's soldiers, Captain James Paterson ...
Jan 23, 2014 · Transcript. The British National Archives has digitized and posted online about 1.5 million pages of diaries from soldiers and units that fought in World War I. Here, a photo of the 12th (Prince ...
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Nov 8, 2015 · The files which make up our corpus cover only a small fraction of the complete set of unit diaries from the First World War. The files we are using were created as part of a major digitization project by The National Archives (TNA) – the digitization and release of the WO 95 record series, marking the centenary of the war (a project previously discussed here by Debra Ramsay).
