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The aim of this section is
to give some signposts to further sources
of information about early radar
development. Such a huge amount has been published that
it is only possible to scratch the surface
here. The hope is that these web
pages will help you find some leads to your
particular area of interest.
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Contents of this
'More..' Section |
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| Introduction |
This
page! - introduction to the 'More..'
section. |
| Books |
Lists
of books comprising downloadable
reference lists, and a collection of
recently available titles on a separate web
page: book
list. |
| Book
List |
| Library |
The
Purbeck
Radar Reference Library is held in
Swanage, UK. These pages explain how
to view these reference books with a
list
of the reference books in the
collection on a separate web page. |
| Library
List |
| Videos |
Videos
and films, |
| Links |
Links
to other websites related to early
radar development as well as
relevant websites in the Purbeck
area. |
| Publications |
Publications
(DVD, booklets etc.) available from the Radar
Trust with details of how to obtain
them - see thumbnails below. |
| Penley
Radar Archives |
Reminiscences,
commentaries, letters etc. by some
of the wartime radar researchers
which were collected by Bill Penley. |
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| Papers
Relating to Early Radar |
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are many thousands of papers
relating to the early radar
work. Here are a few
signposts to repositories of
papers which may be of
interest to the dedicated
researcher or enthusiast: |
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| Churchill
Archives Centre, Cambridge
- http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ |
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number of
the key radar researchers deposited their personal
papers at the Churchill
Archives Centre. For
some of
these contributors there are specific references in their mini
biography.
Background: Robert
Watson-Watt personally knew
John Cockcroft at the
Cavendish Laboratory,
Cambridge. Shortly
before war was declared in
1939, he persuaded Cockcroft
to release around 80
researchers to visit some of
the Chain Home radar
stations. This was to
prepare them to act as nurse
maids to help keep the
stations operational should
war be declared. Many of
these joined the radar
research team at
the outbreak of war. A
number of the researchers
later deposited papers at
Churchill College, Cambridge. |
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| Penley
Radar Archives
- penleyradararchives
local link |
| Reminiscences,
commentaries, letters etc. by
some of the wartime radar
researchers which were
collected by Bill Penley -
some digitized on CD-ROM. |
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Telecommunications
Research Establishment (TRE)
Most records were
systematically destroyed by
QinetiQ. |
| TRE
was the 'cover' name given to
the radar research
establishment associated with
the RAF and air defence when
it was based in Purbeck and
Malvern during the war.
Over subsequent decades it
went through a series of name
changes: |
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- Radar Research
Establishment, RRE - Royal
Radar Establishment, RSRE -
Royal Signals & Radar
Establishment, DERA - Defence
Evaluation & Research
Agency, DRA - Defence Research
Agency. |
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the late 1990s it was mostly
privatised to become QinetiQ (www.qinetiq.com)
with a skeleton part remaining
in the Ministry of Defence:
Defence Scientific &
Technical Laboratories (www.dstl.gov.uk). |
| When
QinetiQ took over the library,
almost all of the
establishment's historical
records were systematically
destroyed. Presumably,
from their perspective as a
profit motivated commercial
organisation, maintaining
historical records represented
an unwanted expense. |
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