The story of
The General Strike
In May 1926 over 1.5 million UK workers went on strike, bringing Britain to a standstill. Our records provide an insight into its origins and impact.
Series
Stationery Office and HMSO: Departmental Whitley Council: Minutes of Meetings
Catalogue reference: STAT 21
What's it about?
STAT 21
Records of the Departmental and Industrial Departmental Whitley Councils relating to conditions of staff service. The series contains a complete set of signed minutes of the meetings.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- STAT 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Stationery Office and HMSO: Departmental Whitley Council: Minutes of Meetings
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1920-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Departmental and Industrial Departmental Whitley Councils relating to conditions of staff service. The series contains a complete set of signed minutes of the meetings.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Civil Service Department, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Departmental Whitley Council, 1972-1986
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Departmental Whitley Council, 1986-1991
- HMSO, Departmental Whitley Council, 1991-1996
- Treasury, His Majesty's Stationery Office, Departmental Whitley Council, 1920-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 6 volume(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1996 HMSO
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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
- Labour
- Official publications
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- A complete series of Departmental Whitley Council and Departmental Industrial Whitley Council minutes has been preserved. They were selected for preservation in the period prior to HMSO's privatisation.
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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 Whitley Councils were established in 1920 in the Stationery Office. Senior staff and staff representatives met periodically under the chairmanship of the Controller to discuss all matters which affected the conditions of service of staff.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13703/
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