Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Foreign Office and Office of Works: Embassy Plate: Correspondence and Inventories
Catalogue reference: WORK 68
What's it about?
WORK 68
This series contains books listing plate held in various British Embassies.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WORK 68
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Office of Works: Embassy Plate: Correspondence and Inventories
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1795-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains books listing plate held in various British Embassies.
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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)
- 11 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
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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
- International
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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/C14669/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
72,496 records
Within the department: WORK
Records of the successive Works departments, and the Ancient Monuments Boards and...
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Foreign Office and Office of Works: Embassy Plate: Correspondence and Inventories
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