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Personal diary of Herbert Spencer, then an Engineering assistant on the Birmingham...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1020/4
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This record is about the Personal diary of Herbert Spencer, then an Engineering assistant on the Birmingham... dating from 1841 in the series Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1020/4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841
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Description (What the record is about)
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Personal diary of Herbert Spencer, then an Engineering assistant on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For an item (formerly RAIL 1020/4 Pt 2) extracted from this piece, see
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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)
- HRP 7/4
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2739381/
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Series information
RAIL 1020
Miscellanea
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