The origins of the Draft Information Service are unclear, but the Service appears to have operated on a part-time basis from a room in the Friends Meeting House, St. Giles, Oxford.
An article in 'The American Exile in Britain', No.1 (reference number NQ101/PR1/3) in March 1969 describes the Draft Information Service as one of only two organisations providing counselling and guidance on draft legislation and regulations, emigration options, and Conscientious Objector status for Americans in Britain. A second article in the same publication records that the Draft Information Service was staffed part-time by three American graduates. The Service estimated that they had provided advice on thirty separate cases during one six week period in early 1969.
No material generated by the Draft Information Service itself has survived as part of this collection. Instead the collection consists of publications, mostly from the United States, sample forms and correspondence, and a series of information folders on assorted subjects.
Deposited as accession 6013 in July 2011. Catalogued by Hannah Jones, June 2013.