Record revealed
The first American invention to obtain an English patent
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Division
Records of Commissions and Inquiries
Catalogue reference: Division within MAF
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Division within MAF
Records of commissions and enquiries relating to the agriculture and environment departments: Temporary commissions and enquiries, MAF 56. Files on the Royal Commission on Food Prices and the Food Council, MAF 69. Files of the public enquiry...
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Division within MAF
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Commissions and Inquiries
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Date (When the record was created)
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1924-2007
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of commissions and enquiries relating to the agriculture and environment departments:
Temporary commissions and enquiries, MAF 56.
Files on the Royal Commission on Food Prices and the Food Council, MAF 69.
Files of the public enquiry into the Wales Rural Development Board, MAF 118.
Unregistered papers on the Crichel Down inquiry, MAF 236.
Records of the New Forest and South Downs Public Inquiries, MAF 705.
BSE Inquiry: Chief Veterinary Officers Papers, MAF 707.
Committee of Inquiry into Acquisition and Occupancy of Agricultural Land (Northfield Committee), MAF 763.
Review of bovine tuberculosis and badgers policy: registered files (CQF prefix), MAF 782.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 series
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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
- Disease
- Food and drink
- Forestry
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C800/
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