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Series
National Coal Board: Minute Series, Divisional
Catalogue reference: COAL 75
What's it about?
COAL 75
This series contains minutes, circulated papers for meetings and other papers of various National Coal Board committees and sub-committees which operated at divisional level.The series was built up as a body of important papers which needed to be...
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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COAL 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Minute Series, Divisional
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Date (When the record was created)
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1874-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains minutes, circulated papers for meetings and other papers of various National Coal Board committees and sub-committees which operated at divisional level.
The series was built up as a body of important papers which needed to be accessioned speedily for reference, mainly for litigation purposes.
The series is artificial in that the records that make it up have been brought together after they passed out of active use.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetical by subject.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5759 files, photographs and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 2006 Department of Trade and Industry
from 1998 British Coal Corporation
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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
- Litigation
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5323/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
131,483 records
Within the department: COAL
Records created or inherited by the National Coal Board, and of related bodies
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National Coal Board: Minute Series, Divisional
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