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The General Strike
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Series
Remploy Ltd: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: BM 3
What's it about?
BM 3
Selected files of correspondence of Remploy Ltd, concerning the company's organisation, operations, performance and employment policy. The series includes material relating to legal matters.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BM 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Remploy Ltd: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Selected files of correspondence of Remploy Ltd, concerning the company's organisation, operations, performance and employment policy. The series includes material relating to legal matters.
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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)
- 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)
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- Remploy, 1946-1949
- Remploy Ltd, 1949-1949
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 75 file(s)
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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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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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- Topics
- Labour
- Disability
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2921/
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