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Enquiry into the value of Home Intelligence weekly reports. It includes correspondence...
Catalogue reference: INF 1/285
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This record is about the Enquiry into the value of Home Intelligence weekly reports. It includes correspondence... dating from 1943-1944 in the series Ministry of Information: Files of Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- INF 1/285
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943-1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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Enquiry into the value of Home Intelligence weekly reports. It includes correspondence in response to Radcliffe’s enquiry about the usefulness of the Home Intelligence Reports and a summary of responses by Dr Stephen Taylor.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This catalogue description was enhanced in 2018 as a result of a project led by Professor Simon Eliot (University of London) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The project was entitled 'Make Do and Mend: A Publishing History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-1946'.
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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)
- File No. H.I.1013/5
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Intelligence
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4300373/
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INF 1
Ministry of Information: Files of Correspondence
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