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Series
Public Record Office: Repositories for Evacuated Records, War of 1939-1945
Catalogue reference: PRO 18
What's it about?
PRO 18
Correspondence and papers which accumulated both at headquarters and at the seven local repositories to which parts of the public records were moved for safe custody at the beginning of the Second World War. They relate mainly to the acquisition,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Repositories for Evacuated Records, War of 1939-1945
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers which accumulated both at headquarters and at the seven local repositories to which parts of the public records were moved for safe custody at the beginning of the Second World War. They relate mainly to the acquisition, preparation and maintenance of the repositories, the evacuation and return of the records, establishment matters and the release of the premises.
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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)
- 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)
- 7 box(es)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11936/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
96,788 records
Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
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Public Record Office: Repositories for Evacuated Records, War of 1939-1945
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