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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Sub-sub-fonds
Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
Catalogue reference: POST 82
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland) dating from 1837-1939.
Is it available online?
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at BT Archives.
Can I see it in person?
Not at The National Archives, but you may be able to view it in person at BT Archives.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a collection of arbitration cases between the Postmaster General and private telegraph companies; memoranda by heads of Post Office departments and their correspondence, records of the Central Telegraph Office, lighhouses and lightvessels, circuits and codes, mobile facilities for telegraphs at race meetings and special events; Letters Patent taken out by inventors and specificaitons of inventions.
Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue and BT Archives online catalogue.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Note that these records have been rearranged to fit the scheme of arrangement used at BT Archives. The records have been incorporated within TCB and the POST 82 reference numbers are now obsolete. Please contact BT Archives for more information.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For refence to pre-takeover records of private telegraph companies, see POST 81
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- BT Archives
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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)
- 266 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
- Research
- Race relations
- Communications
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This series of records, along with other Post Office telecommunications records, was transferred from the Post Office Archives to BT Archives in 1991.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Postmaster General took over the private telegraph companies under the Telegraph Acts of 1869 & 1869, which authorised the Postmaster General to purchase, work and maintain telegraphs in the United Kingdom.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11799/
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Catalogue hierarchy
56 records
This record is held at BT Archives
111 records
Within the fonds: POST
Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
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Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Inland)
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