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Olga Gray and the Woolwich Arsenal Spy Ring
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Series
Department of Economic Affairs: External Relations Division: Registered Files (ER...
Catalogue reference: EW 5
What's it about?
EW 5
This series contains selected files concerning subjects relating to the United Kingdom's proposed membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the Treaty of Rome.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- EW 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Economic Affairs: External Relations Division: Registered Files (ER Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1961-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains selected files concerning subjects relating to the United Kingdom's proposed membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the Treaty of Rome.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The original numerical sequence of the creating body has been followed
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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)
- ER file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Department of Economic Affairs, External Relations Division, 1964-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 33 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1989 Department of the Environment
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Only a relatively small number of files have survived. The majority of files destroyed contained little or nothing other than pages for information of the Department of Economic Affairs, generated outside the Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7160/
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