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Division within INF
General records of the Department of Information 1917-1918, Ministry of Information 1918, interwar government publication work, Ministry of Information 1939-1946 and Central Office of Information (COI) from 1946 relating to the provision of...
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- Division within INF
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Title (The name of the record)
- General records of the Central Office of Information and its predecessor government information departments and ministries
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1915-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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General records of the Department of Information 1917-1918, Ministry of Information 1918, interwar government publication work, Ministry of Information 1939-1946 and Central Office of Information (COI) from 1946 relating to the provision of government publicity and public information and comprising:
- A collection of papers from various sources on First World War information and propaganda services and papers relating to the planning of the Ministry of Information, 1939-1946, INF 4
- Papers relating to the planning of the Ministry of Information, 1939-1946 and files of the Ministry, INF 1
- Ministry of Information 1939-1946 and COI publicity material, INF 2 and INF 13, together with selected photographs used in such material, INF 14 and original art work, INF 3.
- COI divisional reports to the Director General, INF 8
- COI registered files, INF 12
- COI annual service reports, INF 18
- Minutes of COI regional officers' conferences, INF 19
- Press summaries, COI Welsh Office, INF 20
- COI personal files, INF 21
- COI staff lists, INF 22
- Ministry of Information 1939-1945 and COI, minutes of Departmental Whitley Council meetings, INF 23
- Dixon Scott Collection of photographs, INF 9
- British Empire Collection of photographs, INF 10
- British Council Photographic Collection, INF 11
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Ministry of Information files relating to overseas publicity during the Second World War are in
Reports of the Social Survey when part of the Ministry of Information, 1936-1946, are in:
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Files of the Home Intelligence Division are in
Records of COI's Festival [of Britain] Exhibition Unit are in
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- 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)
- 17 series
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1144/
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