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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
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Ministry of Supply: War Histories (1939-1945): Files
Catalogue reference: BT 131
What's it about?
BT 131
Copies of documents extracted from registered files by the official historians in the course of their work on the Board of Trade's History of the Second World War - Civil Industry and Trade; and material collected in the Ministry of Supply and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 131
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Supply: War Histories (1939-1945): Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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Copies of documents extracted from registered files by the official historians in the course of their work on the Board of Trade's History of the Second World War - Civil Industry and Trade; and material collected in the Ministry of Supply and subsequently transferred to the Board of Trade, for the preparation of the History ofthe Second World War - The Control of RawMaterials. The former papers include series of minutes of meetings of department and interdepartmental committees; the latter are mainly narratives relating to various commodities.
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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)
- Ministry of Supply, 1939-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 116 file(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3169/
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Ministry of Supply: War Histories (1939-1945): Files
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