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Series
Board of Trade: General In-letters and Files
Catalogue reference: BT 1
What's it about?
BT 1
This series contains the great majority of in-letters and papers received by the Board of Trade and files of the Commercial Department.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: General In-letters and Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1791-1863
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the great majority of in-letters and papers received by the Board of Trade and files of the Commercial Department.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From BT 1/358 onwards the date given in the list of the series refers to the date of minuting, not of writing or despatch.
The in-letters and papers of the Board of Trade each bear a letter and number by which it is referred to in the minutes in BT 5.
The minutes up to 1839 are marked with red letters and numbers against each item, which refer to the volumes and item numbers in the series. Each volume of minutes has a subject index at the end, and from 1791 to 1839 the minutes used with their indexes are the easiest means of reference.
The bound volumes of papers in this series are marked not only with their modern call numbers but with the original bundle numbers as well, running from A1 to Z1, A2 to Z2 and so on. Through each volume the papers are numbered in order in red ink. These bundle and paper numbers can be used to trace an individual paper from the Minute Books, which mark the relevant paper numbers against items of business.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Plans and maps extracted from this series are in
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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)
- Board of Trade, 1786-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 569 boxes and volumes
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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
- Trade and commerce
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is a general index in BT 4 . There is a subject index in BT 19.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The in-letters are complete from 1791 to 1845. From that date onward they have been heavily weeded.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3044/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade: General In-letters and Files
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