The story of
Sir Ludwig Guttmann and the birth of the Paralympic Games
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Series
London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG): Games Makers...
Catalogue reference: LOC 12
What's it about?
LOC 12
This dataset comprises an extract of the database of London 2012 volunteers who assisted LOCOG in marshalling the general public to venues and providing them with assistance and guidance. The extract contains first and last names together with...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LOC 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG): Games Makers Volunteer Database
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2005-2012
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Description (What the record is about)
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This dataset comprises an extract of the database of London 2012 volunteers who assisted LOCOG in marshalling the general public to venues and providing them with assistance and guidance. The extract contains first and last names together with partial postcodes.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The date was uncertain and has been curated by archivists
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
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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)
- 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)
- London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2005-2012
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 dataset(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
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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
- Sports
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- LOCOG originally received the dataset from Sport England.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals are anticipated.
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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 records are likely to have been created mainly by the LOCOG Volunteering Team (part of the Human Resources Department) which was responsible for developing the volunteer strategy and working with all departments across LOCOG to recruit up to 70,000 volunteers for Games-time roles.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14519139/
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