The story of
The General Strike
In May 1926 over 1.5 million UK workers went on strike, bringing Britain to a standstill. Our records provide an insight into its origins and impact.
Series
Ministry of Labour and successors: Regional Offices: Representative Papers
Catalogue reference: LAB 21
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LAB 21
This series contains a miscellaneous collection of papers illustrating various activities connected with questions of employment at regional level. Subjects covered include industrial relations, labour supply, National Service, publicity,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LAB 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Labour and successors: Regional Offices: Representative Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a miscellaneous collection of papers illustrating various activities connected with questions of employment at regional level. Subjects covered include industrial relations, labour supply, National Service, publicity, redundancy, employment subsidy schemes, industrial training, work schemes for the blind and disabled, youth employment, and vocational training.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files are arranged by region.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 363 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Labour
- Disability
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There are indexes to the file prefixes used to denote regional offices and file subject classification (some files have regional prefixes some have subject prefixes) in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10136/
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