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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...
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 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1865-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For re-registered F series files see
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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)
- F 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)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 482 boxes, files and volumes
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- There is a register of retained papers in BT 19
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3058/
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: Finance Department: Registered Files (F Series)
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