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Series
Public Record Office: Registered Case Files (CASE and 2/CASE series)
Catalogue reference: PRO 84
What's it about?
PRO 84
This series contains files from the Public Record Office's own CASE (1976-1981) and 2/CASE (1982-1986) registered file series dealing with individual cases. Many files are from the Records Administration Division dealing with the appointment of...
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 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Registered Case Files (CASE and 2/CASE series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1953-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files from the Public Record Office's own CASE (1976-1981) and 2/CASE (1982-1986) registered file 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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Records are arranged in file prefix 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)
- CASE and 2/CASE series
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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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- Public Record Office, 1838-2003
- Public Record Office, Records Administration Division, 1958-1991
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 941 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2014 The National Archives
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records have been stored in the Public Record Office, which became The National Archives in 2003.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series began in 1976
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14178462/
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 (CASE and 2/CASE series)
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