| Description | Contains correspondence between Priestley and the University Grants Committee but primarily between Priestley and the War Office on the training of candidates sponsored by the War Office for technical work in the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Signals, to be accommodated in University centres; the arrival of Royal Engineer students to be accommodated at Chancellor's Hall, men's hall of residence at Birmingham, arrangements and costs, July-September 1940; the operation of the first Royal Engineers cadet course October-November 1940; and further correspondence with the War Office about costs and arrangements for further courses including details about allocation of tuition fees to academic departments and payment to individual lecturers 1941-1945 |