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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
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Cabinet Office and predecessors: Historical Section: Registered Files (HS and other...
Catalogue reference: CAB 103
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CAB 103
This series contains the registered files of the Cabinet Office Historical Section. It includes periodical progress reports, annual estimates and correspondence on the management of the official histories programme, and various subjects, mainly...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAB 103
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cabinet Office and predecessors: Historical Section: Registered Files (HS and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1906-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the registered files of the Cabinet Office Historical Section. It includes periodical progress reports, annual estimates and correspondence on the management of the official histories programme, and various subjects, mainly Second World War but also the East Africa Campaign History (1914-1918). There is also much information about documentary sources, British and foreign, assembled by and for official historians.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By former reference.
The early historical Section files were within the Committee of Imperial Defence file scheme: no registry list survives from this period.
From 1937 until 1966 the filing system of the Cabinet Office was based on a hierarchical tree, whereby broad subject areas were allocated numbers, and topics within these subjects were allocated sub-numbers. These in turn could be sub-divided twice, making a maximum of a four number file reference.
Series 7 was used for papers on the completion of the WW1 official histories; the HS was allocated series 68 (Military histories 1939-45), 69 (Civil Histories 1939-45), 70 (General Histories 1939-45), 71 Official Histories 1939-45). Series 70 was used for wider matters related to the OH programme, and for printing and publication of the OH series. Series 71 was used for the appointment of the advisory panels.
In 1966 the Cabinet Office reorganised its filing system, but some of the war histories files continued on their 1937 hierarchical numbering for several years.
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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)
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- Cabinet Office, Historical Section, 1939-1939
- Committee of Imperial Defence, Historical Branch, 1914-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 833 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3910/
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