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Government Code and Cypher School: Staffing, Recruitment and Conditions of Service...
Catalogue reference: HW 72
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HW 72
This series consists of miscellaneous papers on the administration, staffing, recruitment and conditions of service of staff of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), from the inter-war years through to the end of the Second World...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HW 72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School: Staffing, Recruitment and Conditions of Service Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1927-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous papers on the administration, staffing, recruitment and conditions of service of staff of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), from the inter-war years through to the end of the Second World War. The pre-war papers consist largely of correspondence with the Foreign Office, which had assumed responsibility for GC&CS in 1922.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Government Code and Cypher School, 1919-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 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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In 2004 Government Communications Headquarters
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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)
- No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected under criterion 2.2.1.3 of the Acquisition Policy, detailing the establishment and management of GC&CS in the inter-war and second world war periods.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16246/
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