Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Welsh Office: General Division: Sport, Registered Files (G/SPR)
Catalogue reference: BD 79
What's it about?
BD 79
Selected files of the General Division dealing with safety at sports grounds and sporting relations with South Africa.
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 79
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: General Division: Sport, Registered Files (G/SPR)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Selected files of the General Division dealing with safety at sports grounds and sporting relations with South Africa.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The G/SPR reference was only in existence for a short time and it is possible that later files on this subject were registered in the G series:
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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/SPR 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)
- 5 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2000 National Assembly for Wales
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Passed from the Welsh Office to National Assembly for Wales in 1999.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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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The General Division of the Welsh Office appeared to have dealt with a number of subjects that did not obviously fall into the remit of any other division (including sport).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2855/
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Welsh Office: General Division: Sport, Registered Files (G/SPR)
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