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Patten Second World War Collection

Collection of World War II publications mostly assembled by a single collector. The majority of the collection consists of pamphlets issued by government ministries between 1939-1945.

Peter Patten

Peter 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.  

The Patten Collection is now in the care of the University’s Special Collections and Archives.