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Series
National Agricultural Advisory Service and predecessors: Education and Research Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: MAF 33
What's it about?
MAF 33
Files relating to various aspects of agricultural education and research including research institutes, colleges, and departments in universities; the Agricultural Improvement Council for England and Wales; Agricultural Research Council; Rural...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Agricultural Advisory Service and predecessors: Education and Research Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1888-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to various aspects of agricultural education and research including research institutes, colleges, and departments in universities; the Agricultural Improvement Council for England and Wales; Agricultural Research Council; Rural Industries Bureau; advisory centres and services; chemistry; dairying; diseases of animals; electricity; feeding stuffs and fertilisers; flax; grants; grass; horticulture; imperial, commonwealth and international conferences, congresses and commissions; meteorology; pigs; potatoes; poultry; rural industries; salaries and superannuation of research officers; scholarships; sheep; sugar and sugar beet; veterinary education and research.
Includes some files re-registered from the ASH file series (MAF 114), AE file series (MAF 115), EHC file series: MAF 116
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later papers can be found in ED 174
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some TPB files were re-registered in the EHC file series; see
Some RG files re-registered in the AK file series; see
Other TPB files were re-registered in the ASH file series; see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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TPB file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- National Agricultural Advisory Service, 1945-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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953 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10434/
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