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Series
Festival of Britain Office and predecessors: Festival of Britain: records
Catalogue reference: WORK 25
What's it about?
WORK 25
This series contains records of the Festival of Britain Office and of its predecessors, the Treasury Festival Headquarters and the Festival Exhibition Unit of the Central Office of Information. The records, which were taken over by the Ministry...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WORK 25
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Title (The name of the record)
- Festival of Britain Office and predecessors: Festival of Britain: records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Festival of Britain Office and of its predecessors, the Treasury Festival Headquarters and the Festival Exhibition Unit of the Central Office of Information. The records, which were taken over by the Ministry of Works in 1953 on the dissolution of the Festival of Britain Office, include correspondence relating to the planning and operations of the Festival and minutes of the Festival Council and various committees; original art work; plans and drawings; photographs; printed matter; miscellanea; and copyright documents.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Before transfer to the Public Record Office, the records of the Festival of Britain Office were classified into seven categories, identified with the letters A-G. Each of these categories has been treated as a subseries. The eighth subseries consists of items transferred after the original typescript catalogue of the records was compiled.
Individual items within this series have been numbered using the 'catalogue numbers' assigned to them before transfer. Therefore the item numbers do not always form a single sequence within each piece and there are occasionally gaps in the numbering.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For Arts Council records relating to the Festival of Britain see EL 6
Files of the Lord President of the Council relating to the Festival of Britain are in
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Festival of Britain Office, 1949-1953
- Treasury, Festival Headquarters, 1948-1949
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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293 files, rolls and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14626/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
72,493 records
Within the department: WORK
Records of the successive Works departments, and the Ancient Monuments Boards and...
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Festival of Britain Office and predecessors: Festival of Britain: records
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