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Series
Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1
Catalogue reference: PCOM 2
What's it about?
PCOM 2
Registers of prisoners and habitual criminals, photograph albums, minute books, visitors' books, order books, journals, assizes and quarter sessions calendars and other records relating to various prisons in England and Wales, to Gibraltar prison...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PCOM 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1
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Date (When the record was created)
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1770-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of prisoners and habitual criminals, photograph albums, minute books, visitors' books, order books, journals, assizes and quarter sessions calendars and other records relating to various prisons in England and Wales, to Gibraltar prison and to some ship prisons.
PLEASE NOTE: Electronic images of selected pieces of these records can be searched online through our partner website. Pieces 1-4, 8-13, 20-42, 45-57, 59, 62, 65, 67-80, 99-106, 108-111, 113, 115, 128-138, 141-146, 153-156, 162, 165, 184, 187, 189-190, 194, 197-221, 266, 292, 296-310, 312-314, 328, 330-336, 342-348, 350, 352, 354-366, 368-391, 393, 396-398, 400-462, 465-466, 468-469, 472 only have been digitised at this time (June 2015); further releases within this series to follow.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later volumes of the Habitual Criminals Register are in MEPO 6
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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)
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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473 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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
- Europe and Russia
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11497/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
23,253 records
Within the department: PCOM
Records created or inherited by the Prison Commission and Home Office Prison Department
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Home Office and Prison Commission: Prisons Records, Series 1
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