Focus on
Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Series
Air Ministry and successors: Inventions, and Research and Development, Registered...
Catalogue reference: AVIA 8
What's it about?
AVIA 8
Files created in the Supply and Research Department and its successors at the Air Ministry, 1920 to 1940.The few files earlier than 1920 were created either by the Air Department of the Admiralty or the Air Inventions Committee of the Air Board...
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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AVIA 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Air Ministry and successors: Inventions, and Research and Development, Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files created in the Supply and Research Department and its successors at the Air Ministry, 1920 to 1940.
The few files earlier than 1920 were created either by the Air Department of the Admiralty or the Air Inventions Committee of the Air Board and Air Ministry. Some files continue into the period of responsibility of the Ministry of Aircraft Production Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aviation.
The security classifications with which certain records are marked have lost their significance.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files have been arranged under subject headings
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Admiralty, Air Department, 1910-1918
- Air Board, 1916-1918
- Air Ministry, Directorate of Scientific Research and Technical Development, 1924-1940
- Air Ministry, Supply and Research Department, 1920-1924
- Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1940-1945
- Ministry of Aviation, 1959-1967
- Ministry of Supply, 1939-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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538 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1965 Ministry of Defence
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2588/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: AVIA
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