Focus on
Olga Gray and the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring
In 1938, thanks to years of work by a remarkable female agent, MI5 ensured a package of British defence plans stayed secret.
Series
Special Operations Executive: Histories and War Diaries: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: HS 7
What's it about?
HS 7
These records provide contemporary or near contemporary historical accounts of the activities of the various sections of the Special Operations Executive, and daily 'diary' accounts of the activities of the territorial sections. The section...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HS 7
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Special Operations Executive: Histories and War Diaries: Registered Files
-
Date (When the record was created)
- c1939-1988
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
These records provide contemporary or near contemporary historical accounts of the activities of the various sections of the Special Operations Executive, and daily 'diary' accounts of the activities of the territorial sections. The section histories and war diaries, written in the closing months and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, provide a broad overview of SOE activities.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- Miscellaneous
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 287 files and volumes
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
-
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))
-
Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1968.
-
Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1945 to 1946
-
Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15435/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
19,884 records
Within the department: HS
Records of Special Operations Executive
You are currently looking at the series: HS 7
Special Operations Executive: Histories and War Diaries: Registered Files
You may be interested in
-
-
Focus on
The Spycatcher affair
The book Spycatcher sparked one of the most controversial courtroom battles of the 1980s, bringing questions around state secrecy to a global audience. -
Record revealed
‘The Book of Negroes’: Black refugees who fought in the American Revolution
This volume offers a glimpse of the numerous ‘Black Loyalists’ who seized the American Revolutionary War as a chance to gain freedom from enslavement.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.