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Olga Gray and the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring
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Series
State Paper Office: Domestic and Foreign: Maps
Catalogue reference: SP 112
What's it about?
SP 112
This series contains maps and plans created or accumulated by the State Paper Office. The series includes atlases (both published and factice), maps, plans and charts, relating to the United Kingdom , the colonies and other countrieswithin and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SP 112
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Title (The name of the record)
- State Paper Office: Domestic and Foreign: Maps
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Date (When the record was created)
- c1590-c1888
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps and plans created or accumulated by the State Paper Office. The series includes atlases (both published and factice), maps, plans and charts, relating to the United Kingdom , the colonies and other countrieswithin and outside Europe, mainly showing fortifications. The work of John Arrowsmith, Jean de Beaurain, John Cary, Covens and Mortier, and Thomas Jefferys, is represented among them.
The first 65 pieces originally held in this series have been transferred to map extract references, in the three series MPF 1 and MR 1. They are described fully under those references. -
Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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PRO 61 contains later material of the same kind
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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)
- 55 flat sheets and volumes
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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
- Europe and Russia
- Maps and plans
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13651/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
208,922 records
Within the department: SP
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State Paper Office: Domestic and Foreign: Maps
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