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Series
Home Office and Prison Commission: Registered Papers, Series 1
Catalogue reference: PCOM 7
What's it about?
PCOM 7
Registered files concerned with the management of prisons and the treatment of prisoners. They are from the 'Old Convict' Series, the 'Old Local' series and the 17000 series of subject files and concern matters arising in: the course of the...
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 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Registered Papers, Series 1
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Date (When the record was created)
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1838-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files concerned with the management of prisons and the treatment of prisoners. They are from the 'Old Convict' Series, the 'Old Local' series and the 17000 series of subject files and concern matters arising in:
- the course of the business of administering the convict prisons
- local prisons and borstal institutions
- the custody and treatment of the inmates of those establishments
- the pay and conditions of service etc of the staff.
With a number of exceptions, the papers span the period 1877 to 1929
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
A completely new system of registration of subject files - the A series files - was put into operation on 1st January 1929. Because of peculiarities in the registration system, and the loss of pre 1922 files, the numerical order could not be retained for the purposes of listing as it provided no obvious order, either chronological or of subject.
The files are now arranged in alphabetical order of subject within each subseries, each file being consecutively numbered.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Many of the papers earlier than 1922 were re-pulped to supply paper during the Second World War.
Registered papers from these pieces will be found in
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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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748 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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- Topics
- Pay and pensions
- Children
- Prisons
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Papers selected for permanent preservation from the registered papers created before the year 1929 in the offices of the Prison Commissioners.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11502/
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Within the department: PCOM
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Home Office and Prison Commission: Registered Papers, Series 1
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