Focus on
Bringing the Bethnal Green disaster to light
The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
Series
Air Ministry and Successors: Accidents Investigation (AI Series) Files
Catalogue reference: BT 218
What's it about?
BT 218
Files of the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Accidents Investigation Branch some dealing with general policy matters and others with particular accidents. The series includes some...
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BT 218
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Title (The name of the record)
- Air Ministry and Successors: Accidents Investigation (AI Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1940-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Accidents Investigation Branch some dealing with general policy matters and others with particular accidents.
The series includes some files from the Civil Aviation Department of the Air Ministry.
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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)
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AI file series
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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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- Air Ministry, Accidents Branch, 1918-1945
- Ministry of Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1959-1967
- Ministry of Civil Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Accidents Investigation Branch, 1953-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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36 file(s)
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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 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3255/
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Air Ministry and Successors: Accidents Investigation (AI Series) Files
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