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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: Registered Case Files (C Series)
Catalogue reference: PRO 69
What's it about?
PRO 69
This series contains files from the C series dealing with individual cases. Many files are from the Records Administration Division dealing with the appointment of individual places of deposit for public records, and guidance given to individual...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 69
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Registered Case Files (C Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files from the C series dealing with individual cases. Many files are from the Records Administration Division dealing with the appointment of individual places of deposit for public records, and guidance given to individual government departments on appraisal and public access to records. Other files deal with the retention and disposal of series of records, loans of records to other institutions, editorial work on records in the PRO, strayed public records, deposit of non-public records in the PRO, and the use of automatic data processing (computers) in individual government departments.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Former reference order.
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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)
- C series files
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Public Record Office, 1838-2003
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 461 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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
- Computing
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- C series ran 1971-1975
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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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 C series was created in 1971 to contain all files relating to individual cases. After the prefix C a three-tier numbering sequence identified the division of origin , the subject categories of particular functions of the division, and the individual case covered by the file.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12111/
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: Registered Case Files (C Series)
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