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Official recognition of Communists with regard to meetings in factories and other...
Catalogue reference: KV 4/147
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This record is about the Official recognition of Communists with regard to meetings in factories and other... dating from 1941 Aug 28-1945 Jan 25 in the series The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 4/147
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941 Aug 28-1945 Jan 25
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Description (What the record is about)
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Official recognition of Communists with regard to meetings in factories and other protected places 1939-1945. The file contains papers considering government policy in war-time towards allowing Communists to address factory meetings
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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)
- POL F 91-1-22-1
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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)
- file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2001
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Manufacturing
- Communism
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11016687/
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Series information
KV 4
The Security Service: Policy (Pol F Series) Files
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