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General Nursing Council for England and Wales andd Committees: Seal and Seal Books
Catalogue reference: DT 9
What's it about?
DT 9
The seal of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales and record of the documents which it validated. The series also contains details of how the seal was to be used and specimens of wording.
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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DT 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Nursing Council for England and Wales andd Committees: Seal and Seal Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1920-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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The seal of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales and record of the documents which it validated. The series also contains details of how the seal was to be used and specimens of wording.
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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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Not 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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17 files 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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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
- Nursing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Seal of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales was designed by Messrs W & A Mussett and approved by the General Nursing Council in December 1920. The central figure is Hygeia, goddess of health, flanked by a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales. The date 1919 shown on the seal is that of the foundation of the council by the Nurses Registration Act 1919.
The seal books contain the authorisation by the chairman to affix the seal to official documents. At first all uses of the seal were contained in the same book, but after 1950 separate books were kept for seals on nurses certificates and for seals used on other documents.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6415/
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