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Series
War Cabinet and Cabinet Office: Historical Section: Archivist and Librarian Files:...
Catalogue reference: CAB 106
What's it about?
CAB 106
This series consists of a heterogeneous collection of papers acquired or created by the narrators and historians of the Historical Section for the preparation of the United Kingdom histories of the Second World War. It includes operational...
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 106
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Cabinet and Cabinet Office: Historical Section: Archivist and Librarian Files: (AL Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1938-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a heterogeneous collection of papers acquired or created by the narrators and historians of the Historical Section for the preparation of the United Kingdom histories of the Second World War. It includes operational reports, military despatches, statistics, maps, official memoranda, personal descriptions of particular events, extracts from personal and official war diaries and narrators' notes and papers, as well as correspondence and comments by the principal commanders associated with the narratives produced by the British and Commonwealth Historical Sections.
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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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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The rest of these files are now held by the Imperial War Museum's Foreign Documents Section.
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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)
- AL 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Cabinet Office, Historical Section, 1939-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1225 files and volumes
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1976 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/C3913/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
134,977 records
Within the department: CAB
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War Cabinet and Cabinet Office: Historical Section: Archivist and Librarian Files: (AL Series)
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