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Department of Trade and Industry: Quality Design and Education Division and successors:...

Catalogue reference: NK 61

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NK 61

This series consists of the registered files of the Quality Design and Education Division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). These files relate to the DTI's involvement with the Design Council and Design Museum in three main areas:...

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NK 61

Title
Department of Trade and Industry: Quality Design and Education Division and successors: Registered Files (NC Series)
Date

1970-1995

Description

This series consists of the registered files of the Quality Design and Education Division of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). These files relate to the DTI's involvement with the Design Council and Design Museum in three main areas: documents relating to the Design Council's petition for a Royal Charter; financial problems faced by the Design Museum; and DTI campaigns to improve the incidence of good design in British Industry.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

NC

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Trade, 1974-1983
  • Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974
  • Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Enterprise Initiative Division, 1988-1994
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Quality and Education Division, 1983-1986
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Quality Design and Education Division, 1987-1989
Physical description

17 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

In 2022 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Subjects
Topics
Art, architecture and design
Trade and commerce
Accruals

No further accruals are anticipated

Selection and destruction information

Management of the economy (2.2.1.2)

Administrative / biographical background

The NC prefix series was used by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Quality Design and Education Division. This series related to the campaign to improve the incidence of good design in British Industry in particular its involvement with the Design Council and Design Museum.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13504271/

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