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Photograph of the Jubilee Singers
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Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Information Division:...
Catalogue reference: ED 223
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ED 223
Registered files created by the Information Division of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education and Science covering background information to the production of a publicity film and preparations for the centenary of the 1870...
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ED 223
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Information Division: Registered Files (ID Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files created by the Information Division of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education and Science covering background information to the production of a publicity film and preparations for the centenary of the 1870 Education Act.
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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)
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ID file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Education and Science, Information Division, 1964-1992
- Ministry of Education, Information and External Relations Branch, 1945-1949
- Ministry of Education, Information Branch, 1949-1964
- Ministry of Education, Information Division, 1944-1944
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6 file(s)
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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
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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
- Photography and film
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Much of the material of the Information Division files was of a routine nature and has not been selected for permanent preservation.
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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 early history of the Information Division is not clear. There had been a unit responsible for supplying information and liaising with the press since 1903. Originally this was regarded as a separate division attached to External Relations Branch or one of its predecessors but from time to time responsibility for the division was transferred to other branches within the department. It was not until the mid-1980s that the division was regarded as large and important enough to be recognised as a separate branch in its own right.
The division's responsibilities covered ministerial briefing, preparing of films and other publicity material, arranging departmental exhibitions at conferences, liaising with the press and arranging the printing of departmental publications.
For most of its existence the division had overall responsibilty for the department's press office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7022/
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