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Series
Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers
Catalogue reference: BT 72
What's it about?
BT 72
This series contains statistics on the consumption of tobacco dating back to 1916, as well as the Tobacco and Matches Control board's papers.
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 72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916-1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains statistics on the consumption of tobacco dating back to 1916, as well as the Tobacco and Matches Control board's papers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Both piece and item numbers should be given when ordering a document.
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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, Tobacco and Matches Control Board, 1917-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 box(es)
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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)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 MS index to the papers originally held by the Board in file E38633 in BT 13/95
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Orders of 15 June and 8 September 1917 under the Defence of the Realm Act set up a Tobacco and Matches Control Board under the Board of Trade to administer orders restricting the importing, distribution and sale of tobacco and matches in 1917 and 1918. The Board was dissolved in 1919.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3115/
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Board of Trade: Tobacco and Matches Control Board: Papers
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