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Henry Savage Sweetman: the man who uncovered Ireland’s medieval history
Henry Savage Sweetman published the Calendar which translated over 8,000 Irish medieval records. But who was Sweetman and why did he complete this project?
Series
Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance
Catalogue reference: PRO 73
What's it about?
PRO 73
This series contains significant guidance for internal staff on significant areas of work relating to the key functions of the Public Record Office: e.g. guidance on cataloguing public records, user guides for key systems employed by the PRO.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 73
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains significant guidance for internal staff on significant areas of work relating to the key functions of the Public Record Office: e.g. guidance on cataloguing public records, user guides for key systems employed by the PRO.
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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)
- Public Record Office, 1838-2003
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Records not yet available
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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The National Archives
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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
- Archives and libraries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The records were held by the Public Record Office prior to April 2001 and were in the custody of the National Archives after April 2003 when the former institution became the latter.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Notable guidance on significant areas of PRO internal administration (e.g. cataloguing projects).
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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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Guidance has occassionally been required for internal Public Record Office staff to ensure that their duties have been carried out correctly. Such records have been preserved in this series if it is felt they shed a useful light upon the functions of the Office to researchers.
Any division / department/ bureau / unit within the Public Record Office may have had recourse to produce internal guidance to its staff to improve business processes and the services provided to its customers. For this reason, an administrative history detailing where guidance was created is an unfeasible undertaking. Therefore, researchers are referred to the Keepers Annual Reports PRO 43 to establish the organisation of the Public Record Office when attempting to trace which Unit issued the guidance at a specific time.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16315/
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