Record revealed
The first American invention to obtain an English patent
These intricate 1716 drawings were submitted by Sybilla Masters in the final stage of securing a patent for machinery for 'cleaning and curing Indian corn'.
Series
Welsh Office: General Division: Registered Files (G Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 25
What's it about?
BD 25
Registered files of the General Division of the Welsh Office relating to such matters as rural depopulation, mining and quarrying, education, the Welsh language, radio and television broadcasting, the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 25
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: General Division: Registered Files (G Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the General Division of the Welsh Office relating to such matters as rural depopulation, mining and quarrying, education, the Welsh language, radio and television broadcasting, the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, agriculture and industry.
The general content of the records in this series is similar and the numbering series of the G files follows that of the WA and WAL series (BD 24). In many cases the dates of files will be found to pre-date the commencement of the series, because these files were registered into the G series from the series WA or WAL.
Also contains records re-registered from BD 79
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related Private Office papers, see also BD 37
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Later re-registered files can be found in
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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)
- G file series
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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)
- Welsh Office, General Division, 1966-1981
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 334 files and flat sheets
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2004 National Assembly for Wales
from 1991 Welsh Office
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- c.1966 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2801/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BD
Records created or inherited by the Welsh Office and the Wales Office
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Welsh Office: General Division: Registered Files (G Series)
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