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Series
War Cabinet and Cabinet: Commonwealth and International Conferences: Minutes and...
Catalogue reference: CAB 99
What's it about?
CAB 99
This contains minutes and papers of proceedings of various Commonwealth and international conferences held between 1938-1945 as well as meetings of Dominion and Commonwealth ministers in London during the period. They include papers relating to...
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 99
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet and Cabinet: Commonwealth and International Conferences: Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1938-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This contains minutes and papers of proceedings of various Commonwealth and international conferences held between 1938-1945 as well as meetings of Dominion and Commonwealth ministers in London during the period. They include papers relating to the main wartime summits, such as the Moscow Conference 1941, Washington War Conference 1941-1942, London Conference of British and US Chiefs of Staff 1943, the Trident Conference in Washington and North Africa 1943 and the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences of 1945.
Records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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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, 1919-1939
- War Cabinet, 1939-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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40 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1970 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
- Litigation
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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/C3906/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CAB
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War Cabinet and Cabinet: Commonwealth and International Conferences: Minutes and Papers
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