Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation: Rehabilitation Scheme: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: BX 7
What's it about?
BX 7
Files relating to the management of rehabilitation centres and to their transfer to the National Health Service.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BX 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation: Rehabilitation Scheme: Registered Files (RD and R Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1949-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to the management of rehabilitation centres and to their transfer to the National Health Service.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other records relating to miners' rehabilitation are in BX 4
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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)
- RD and R 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 file(s)
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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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- Topics
- Welfare
- Coal
- National Health Service
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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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The Miners Welfare Commission pioneered purpose built rehabilitation centres that were exclusively used for rehabilitating disabled mineworkers in order to minimise their absence from work. Upon the creation of the NHS the rehabilitation centres were, in England and Wales, conveyed to the state by individual conveyances, the Uddington rehabilitation centre being conveyed to the Secretary of State for Scotland
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3561/
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