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Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central
Catalogue reference: EL 2
What’s it about?
This record is about the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central dating from 1939-1960.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- EL 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the correspondence of the Secretariat of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA); from 1945 the Arts Council of Great Britain. It includes correspondence of John Maynard Keynes, chairman from 1942-1946; also correspondence of the Scottish and Welsh Committees and with the National Council of Music for Wales.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 95 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- No records held at The National Archives for this series
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- Topics
- Art, architecture and design
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred to Victoria and Albert Museum in 1997
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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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John Meynard Keynes (1883-1946) was an economist who built and financed Arts Theatre, Cambridge and was chairman of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts from 1942-1946.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7110/
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Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts: Correspondence: Central