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Series
Medical Research Council: Registered Files, Accommodation Matters (Z Series)
Catalogue reference: FD 11
What's it about?
FD 11
Files of the Medical Research Council (MRC) relating to the various properties owned, built, rented or maintained by the MRC.The files contain deeds and leases of properties, correspondence and papers relating to buildings of historic interest...
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 11
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Title (The name of the record)
- Medical Research Council: Registered Files, Accommodation Matters (Z Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Medical Research Council (MRC) relating to the various properties owned, built, rented or maintained by the MRC.
The files contain deeds and leases of properties, correspondence and papers relating to buildings of historic interest (such as the MRC Head Office at 20, Park Cresent, London, W1), papers concerning the alteration and re-fitting of MRC properties, and papers concerning the design and operation of scientific laboratories and MRC units.
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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)
- Z 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)
- 125 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)
- Files not selected are those which will pass from the Medical Research Council to successive owners of properties; those which are likely to be required for continuing maintenance of construction purposes; and those concerned with day-to-day accommodation matters.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7274/
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