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Series
Board of Trade and successors: Establishment Department: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: BT 13
What's it about?
BT 13
This series contains records arising from the Establishment Department's responsibilities in staffing, pay, and common services for other Board of Trade departments. The papers survive from 1865 but have been heavily weeded. There are also files...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Establishment Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1853-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records arising from the Establishment Department's responsibilities in staffing, pay, and common services for other Board of Trade departments.
The papers survive from 1865 but have been heavily weeded.
There are also files relating to parliamentary bills, reports of commissions and committees, returns of statistics on matters within the board's jurisdiction, and papers concerning the responsibilities of the board as a whole and of its individual departments. The series also contains some papers of the Parliamentary Branch.
Other papers of the Parliamentary Branch are in BT 132
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Original file order.
Please note that the last digit of the item reference written on the files (e.g. 20 in BT 13/2/1/20) were added during cataloguing and does not reflect the original reference number of the documents. The original reference number can be found in the 'Former reference in its original department' field.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other related records see: BT 55 CAB 40 FV 51 HF 6
For Departmental Whitley Council papers see BT 308
For files of the Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments see BT 271
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Most of the departments files in the E and EG series up to 1960 are in this series. Thereafter, with some overlap, they are mostly in
Certain Post-1960 files in the same series will also be found 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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Establishment Department, 1865-1946
- Board of Trade, Establishment Division, 1946-1970
- Department of Industry, Establishment and Finance Division, 1976-1983
- Department of Industry, Establishment Division, 1974-1976
- Department of Trade and Industry, Establishment Division, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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515 boxes and files
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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)
- Registers of correspondence for 1865-1971 are in BT 14 Subject indexes for 1806-1895 are in BT 19
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3056/
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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