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Henry Savage Sweetman: the man who uncovered Ireland’s medieval history
Henry Savage Sweetman published the Calendar which translated over 8,000 Irish medieval records. But who was Sweetman and why did he complete this project?
Series
Public Record Office: Reproductions of Records, etc: Film Copies of Extraneous Documents
Catalogue reference: PRO 28
What's it about?
PRO 28
Reproductions on microfilm of documents not held by the Public Record Office. These are, with one exception ( PRO 28/7, which consists of paper prints) microfilms either presented or made while the original documents were temporarily housed in...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PRO 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Reproductions of Records, etc: Film Copies of Extraneous Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
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Henry II - 1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reproductions on microfilm of documents not held by the Public Record Office. These are, with one exception ( PRO 28/7, which consists of paper prints) microfilms either presented or made while the original documents were temporarily housed in this department or obtained externally by purchase. They include copies of cheque books of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, 1672 to 1867, diplomatic documents in foreign repositories, records of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1768 to 1841, and messages between Churchill and Roosevelt, 1939 to 1945, in the Franklin D Roosevelt Library, New York.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some microfilm formerly in this series is now 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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Not 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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136 film, microform and photographs
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in microform only unless otherwise stated
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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/C11945/
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: Reproductions of Records, etc: Film Copies of Extraneous Documents
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