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Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow
Catalogue reference: POST 124
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow dating from 1945-1980.
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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)
- POST 124
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Private Office Papers: Papers of Sir William Barlow
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes reports and speech notes and papers relating to the Post Office Industrial Democracy experiment in the 1970s.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This series number was initially erroneously allocated to a website series and released as that series; corrected in March 2013 (please see POST 182).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Postal Museum
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Originals held at (The organisation that holds the original record)
- The Postal Museum
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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)
- Post Office, 1635-1635
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- No records held at The National Archives for this series
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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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Barlow was Chairman of the Post Office in 1977, at the time the Post Office split into two separate functions. He was to have been Chairman of BT as a privatised company but when the government did not go ahead, he returned to the private sector.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18747/
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