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Series
Medical Research Council: Committees, Working Parties and Conferences, Registered...
Catalogue reference: FD 7
What's it about?
FD 7
Files of the Medical Research Council (MRC) containing papers concerning administrative and secretarial matters relating to the committees, working parties and conferences of the MRC, covering an extremely broad range of topics concerned with...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FD 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Medical Research Council: Committees, Working Parties and Conferences, Registered Files (D Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Medical Research Council (MRC) containing papers concerning administrative and secretarial matters relating to the committees, working parties and conferences of the MRC, covering an extremely broad range of topics concerned with aspects of medical research.
The files contain details of terms of reference, membership and composition of committees and working parties; minutes, papers and agendas; circulated papers, related papers and notes; details of research sponsored by the MRC; research reports; details of research appointments, accommodation, funding and financial arrangements; evidence or information supplied to non-MRC committees or commissions of inquiry where there has been considerable substantial discussion within the MRC; reports and publications and notes of internal MRC discussions on research topics and responses to research questions and issues concerning medical research. Also included in this series are files concerning the organisation and subjects of MRC sponsored conferences and forums.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former reference order.
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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)
- D file series
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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)
- 3549 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Papers concerned with general courtesies and administrative correspondence with members of committees and duplicate sets of minutes have not been preserved.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7270/
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