Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Series

Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence, Air Department: Private Office Papers

Catalogue reference: AIR 19

What's it about?

AIR 19

This series includes records relating to the Shadow Scheme. It also contains papers of various Secretaries of State and parliamentary under-secretaries for air including Lord Thomson, Viscount Swinton, Sir Kingsley Wood, Viscount Stansgate, P J...

Full description and record details

Reference
AIR 19
Title
Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence, Air Department: Private Office Papers
Date
1917-1983
Description

This series includes records relating to the Shadow Scheme. It also contains papers of various Secretaries of State and parliamentary under-secretaries for air including Lord Thomson, Viscount Swinton, Sir Kingsley Wood, Viscount Stansgate, P J Noel-Baker, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, Nigel Birch, George Ward, Arthur Henderson, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Marquess of Londonderry, Sir Archibald Sinclair and Julien Amery; and also of Sir Christopher L Bullock and Sir James Ross, Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Air Ministry respectively.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
1161 file(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2074/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

730,930 records

Within the department: AIR

Records created or inherited by the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force, and related...

You are currently looking at the series: AIR 19

Air Ministry, and Ministry of Defence, Air Department: Private Office Papers