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Queer classified adverts and love letters in the 1920s
In an era when the law criminalised your love, how was it possible to meet members of the same sex and communicate?
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Series
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA): Corporate Records
Catalogue reference: ICSA 3
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ICSA 3
This series contains records of the Inquiry's main governance meetings, which oversaw both strategic and operational leadership. This includes: Strategic Management MeetingStrategic Oversight MeetingExecutive Senior Management Team...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ICSA 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA): Corporate Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2015-2023
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Inquiry's main governance meetings, which oversaw both strategic and operational leadership. This includes:
- Strategic Management Meeting
- Strategic Oversight Meeting
- Executive Senior Management Team Meeting
- Safeguarding Steering Group
- Truth Project Steering Group
- Research Steering Group
- Public Hearings Steering Group
- Programme Management Meeting
- Conclusion of Truth Project Board
The series also includes selected emails received or created by the Chair and Secretary to the Inquiry, and anonymised outputs from the Truth Project.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Records were managed within shared drives on the Inquiry's Google workspace platform.
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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)
- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, 2015-2023
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4506 digital record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Closed unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2023 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
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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
- Communications
- Sex and gender
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18051619/
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