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Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Welfare Department
Catalogue reference: LAB 26
What's it about?
LAB 26
Files relating to general welfare matters, covering a variety of subjects including accommodation (particularly for immigrant post war refugees and other foreign nationals), the recruitment of foreigners to work in Britain, hostels, housing...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LAB 26
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Welfare Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to general welfare matters, covering a variety of subjects including accommodation (particularly for immigrant post war refugees and other foreign nationals), the recruitment of foreigners to work in Britain, hostels, housing estates for Polish workers, clubs and other recreational centres, entertainment, women war workers, holidays during wartime and staggered holidays. The series also contains minutes of meetings of the Seamen's Welfare Board, 1940 to 1944, files concerning the Committee on Seamen's Welfare in Ports (the Graham White Committee), and a series of monthly reports from the regional welfare officers.
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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)
- 298 file(s)
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10141/
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Ministry of Labour and National Service and successors: Welfare Department
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