Record revealed
A dramatic plea for Churchill’s help from Bletchley Park
In 1941, four Government Code and Cypher School cryptanalysts, including Alan Turing, made a stunning appeal directly to Winston Churchill.
Series
Statistics Commission: Documents Hosted on the First Website
Catalogue reference: SF 2
What's it about?
SF 2
Annual Reports, Board papers, Issues papers, press releases, and other documents. This series contains born-digital records in various formats, including PDF files, Microsoft Word documents and one Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SF 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Statistics Commission: Documents Hosted on the First Website
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2000-2006
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Description (What the record is about)
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Annual Reports, Board papers, Issues papers, press releases, and other documents. This series contains born-digital records in various formats, including PDF files, Microsoft Word documents and one Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The catalogue descriptions and dates used in this series are as they were created and used by the Statistics Commission. It should therefore be noted that they are the original file descriptions and have not been subsequently curated as part of their transfer to The National Archives.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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References for born digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised copies of records.
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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 and Welsh
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Statistics Commission, 2000-2000
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1081 digital record(s)
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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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Statistics Commission
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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
- Computing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16588/
Catalogue hierarchy
1,267 records
Within the department: SF
Records of the Statistics Commission
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Statistics Commission: Documents Hosted on the First Website
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