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Series

Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)

Catalogue reference: BT 15

What's it about?

BT 15

Registered files of the Board of Trade's Finance Department and its predecessors. Until 1867 these are records of the separate Accounts and Pensions Departments; thereafter they are files of the Finance Department. Also included are files of the...

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Reference

BT 15

Title
Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)
Date

1865-1988

Description

Registered files of the Board of Trade's Finance Department and its predecessors.

Until 1867 these are records of the separate Accounts and Pensions Departments; thereafter they are files of the Finance Department. Also included are files of the Enemy Property Branch.

Arrangement
Arrangement

This series is grouped into three sequences:

  • BT 15/1-70: files registered up to 1918.
  • BT 15/71-458: files registered from 1919 onwards. These were originally catalogued are arranged under subject-coded headings.
  • BT 15/459 onwards: Administration of Enemy Property Department papers and claims by the Soviet Government against the UK in respect of Baltic States' assets and gold.

Related material

Records of the Trading with the Enemy Department and Administration of Enemy Property Division are in: BT 271 BT 272 BT 273

The majority of the records of the Home Grown Timber Committee are in BT 71

Separated material

For re-registered F series files see

BT 279

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

F file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Board of Trade, Accounts Department, 1867-1867
  • Board of Trade, Finance Department, 1867-1945
  • Board of Trade, Finance Division, 1945-1970
  • Board of Trade, Pensions Department, 1851-1867
Physical description

482 boxes, files and volumes

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Pay and pensions
Unpublished finding aids
There is a register of retained papers in BT 19
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3058/

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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

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Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)

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