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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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THEATRE WORKSHOP, alias Pioneer Theatres Ltd, Theatre Workshop (Stratford) Ltd. This...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/3178
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This record is about the THEATRE WORKSHOP, alias Pioneer Theatres Ltd, Theatre Workshop (Stratford) Ltd. This... dating from 1951 Apr 07 - 1955 Jan 01 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF 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 2/3178
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951 Apr 07 - 1955 Jan 01
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Description (What the record is about)
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THEATRE WORKSHOP, alias Pioneer Theatres Ltd, Theatre Workshop (Stratford) Ltd. This theatre company, some of whose leading lights were Joan LITTLEWOOD, Ewan MacCOLL and Karl WOODS, came to notice in the early 1950s because of the Communist associations of many of its members and in 1953 it was described as Communist-controlled. The file includes many reviews and other press cuttings
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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)
- PF 701445 VOL 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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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2010
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11527042/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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