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Series
War Cabinet and Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Records (General Series)
Catalogue reference: CAB 27
What's it about?
CAB 27
This series consists of the minutes and papers of the bulk of Cabinet Committees during the inter-war period.They include records of various standing and ad hoc committees on domestic, foreign, colonial, and economic policies, including 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)
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CAB 27
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet and Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Records (General Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the minutes and papers of the bulk of Cabinet Committees during the inter-war period.They include records of various standing and ad hoc committees on domestic, foreign, colonial, and economic policies, including papers concerning Russian supplies 1917-1918, Eastern Committee (EC) 1918-1919, Supply and Transport Committee (TC) 1919-1921, Committee on National Expenditure (GR and GRC) 1922, Unemployment Committee (CU) 1920-1925, Unemployment Policy Committee (UP) 1930-1931, Committee on India (CI) 1932-1935, Irish Situation Committee (ISC) 1932-1938, Ministerial Committee on League of Nations Disarmament Conference (DC (M)) 1932-1935, and the Foreign Policy Committee (FP) 1936-1939.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within original subject classification
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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)
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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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- Cabinet, Committee on India, 1932-1935
- Cabinet, Committee on National Expenditure, 1922-1922
- Cabinet, Disarmament Conference Ministerial Committee, 1932-1932
- Cabinet, Foreign Policy Committee, 1936-1939
- Cabinet, Irish Situation Committee, 1932-1938
- Cabinet, Supply and Transport Committee, 1919-1921
- Cabinet, Unemployment Committee, 1920-1925
- Cabinet, Unemployment Policy Committee, 1930-1931
- War Cabinet, Eastern Committee, 1918-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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663 files and volumes
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1964 Cabinet Office
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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
- International
- Labour
- Ireland
- Disarmament
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3834/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
134,539 records
Within the department: CAB
Records of the Cabinet Office
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War Cabinet and Cabinet: Miscellaneous Committees: Records (General Series)
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