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Series
Public Record Office: Specimens of Scheduled Documents
Catalogue reference: PRO 10
What's it about?
PRO 10
This series, formerly part of the Special Collections (SC ) department, contains specimens of documents scheduled for destruction under the Public Record Office Acts 1877 and 1898.The dates of schedules given in the descriptive list are the dates...
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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PRO 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Specimens of Scheduled Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
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c1600-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series, formerly part of the Special Collections (SC ) department, contains specimens of documents scheduled for destruction under the Public Record Office Acts 1877 and 1898.
The dates of schedules given in the descriptive list are the dates on which they they were signed, not those on which they were laid before Parliament.
Pieces 162-281 have been transferred to MH 47/1-144.
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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)
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SC 9
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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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1852 papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- Archives and libraries
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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This series was regarded for a number of years as forming one of the Special Collections. It was re-arranged (and the present revised list prepared) in the Autumn of 1928, and it was then removed from the Special Collections department and transferred to the Public Record Office department in December of that year. Since 1962 the series has been reviewed with a view to the transfer of documents worthy of preservation as specimens to appropriate departmental series and the destruction of the residue. This process is still in progress. In a number of cases specimen records will be found in a '900' series in the appropriate record group, e.g. ADM 900
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11928/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
96,787 records
Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
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Public Record Office: Specimens of Scheduled Documents
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