UK CBW defence policy/posture in the Second World War

These references relate to the defence policy and posture of the United Kingdom in relation to chemical and biological warfare issues during the Second World War. There is a separate page that deals with UK defence policy/posture relating to CBW overall.

UK civil protection issues during the war will be covered by another page.

See also the Subcategory C3 fileheadings for the UK in the Sussex Harvard Information Bank (SHIB) that relate to CBW-related policies and activities within countries.

A thematic page giving links to all fileheadings relating to the Second World War is in Preparation.

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PLEASE NOTE: the cataloguing system is under development and does not yet contain all relevant references from the holdings in the collections.

Total Records Found: 66, showing 25 per page
Title 2026-0805 [PopSci] During WWII Great Britain poisoned sheep with anthrax on an idyllic Scottish island
Weblink https://www.popsci.com/technology/anthrax-gardiner-island/
Author R J Mackenzie
Sides 10
Title 2025-0405 [BBC] Countryfile — Inside Anthrax Island – the Scottish isle of death you-ll never be able to visit
Weblink https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/historic-places/what-is-anthrax-island
Author Fergus Collins
Sides 4
Title 2020-0807 [TheDrive] The British Had A Plan To Drop Anthrax Laced Cattle Feed Over Germany In 1942
Author Thomas Newdick
Sides 8
Title 2018-1120 [ScottishField] Scotland-s secret wartime past in new book
Author Kenny Smith
Sides 7
Title 2017-0424 [DMirror] See inside Welsh tunnels which housed a secret chemical weapons factory
Author Gareth Wyn Williams
Sides 7
Title 2016-0815 [DailyPostWales] These Flintshire tunnels housed a secret chemical weapons factory during World War Two
Author Kelly Williams
Sides 4
Title 2016-0800 [RVHS] Rhydymwyn Tunnel Tour Day flyer -2016-1009-
Sides 4
Title 2013-0329 [WalesOnline] Factory behind first atomic bomb aims to be listed
Author Darren Devine
Sides 4
Title 2012-0600 [BritainatWar] The Secret Valley
Author David Smith
Sides 7
Title 2010-1118 [FlintshireChron] Rhydymwyn Valley Nature Reserve row rumbles on -bwppdf 2010-1121-
Author Francesca Elliott
Sides 8
Title 2010-0602 [BBC] Golden history of Flintshire government site revealed
Weblink http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10218941
Sides 4
Title 2010-0509 [StourbridgeNews] Dad-s Army World War Two chemical bomb found in Halesowen garden -bwppdf 2010-0511-
Sides 1
Title 2010-0330 [BBC] Rhydymwyn Valley Works – Lifting the lid on secret site
Author Nick Bourne
Sides 4
Title 2009-0500 [HeritageinWales] The secret site -rhydymwyn-
Author Jon Berry
Sides 4
Title 2006-1206 [BBC] Film of secret WWII weapons site
Weblink https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/wales/north_east/6214516.stm
Sides 2
Title 2004-0500 [NotesRecRSocLond] The Wartime Work of Hinshelwood and his Colleagues
Author J S Rowlinson
Sides 15
Title 2000-0517 {OPCW} [CSP] C-V-DEC.11 Request by UK for conversion of Rhydymwyn CWPF
Weblink https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/CSP/C-V/en/C-V_DEC.11-EN.pdf
Sides 1
Title 1998-1102 [Gua] Churchill planned to drench Germany in gas
Author Richard Norton-Taylor
Sides 4
Title 1998-0724 [DTel] The Oxford chemist in SOE plot to kill Hitler
Author Michael Smith
Sides 2
Title 1998-0000 [Book] The Tale of Tabun — Nazi Chemical Weapons in North Wales -title page-
Author Roy Sloan
Sides 1
Title 1997-0614 [STel] Minister pressed to solve the riddle of Shingle Street
Author Christy Campbell
Sides 6
Title 1997-0420 [STel] The gas mask girls
Author Christina Hardyment
Sides 4
Title 1996-0603 [Ind] Sixty secret mustard gas sites uncovered
Author Christopher Bellamy
Sides 3
Title 1995-1022 [STel] Exmoor keeps lid on chemical warfare past
Author Nick Constable
Sides 1
Title 1995-0209 [IHT] OpEd — When Both Sides Stood Ready for Bacterial Warfare
Author Denis Warner
Sides 3

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