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Home Office: records on prisons transferred from HO 102 to HO 20/2 and 4
Catalogue reference: PRO 56/375
What’s it about?
This record is about the Home Office: records on prisons transferred from HO 102 to HO 20/2 and 4 dating from 1962 in the series Public Record Office: Registered Files: Miscellaneous Case Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PRO 56/375
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Date (When the record was created)
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1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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Home Office: records on prisons transferred from HO 102 to HO 20/2 and 4
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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2/CFA/14
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1837903/
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Series information
PRO 56
Public Record Office: Registered Files: Miscellaneous Case Files
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Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
96,787 records
Within the department: PRO
Domestic Records of the Public Record Office, Gifts, Deposits, Notes and Transcripts
648 records
Within the series: PRO 56
Public Record Office: Registered Files: Miscellaneous Case Files
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Home Office: records on prisons transferred from HO 102 to HO 20/2 and 4
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