Series
Southern Department and Foreign Office: Embassy, Ottoman Empire: Letter Books
Catalogue reference: FO 261
Date: 1776-1794
This series contains letter books compiled during the embassy of Sir Robert Ainslie to the Ottoman empire.
Series
Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for...
Catalogue reference: FO 1047
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FO 1047
This series contains records of the the Censorship Bureau and, later, the censorship sub-division of the Intelligence Division of the Control Commission for Germany concerning the organisation and administration of district censorship stations,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1047
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Title (The name of the record)
- Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Censorship Bureau and Intelligence Division: Registered Files (CEN/BUR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the the Censorship Bureau and, later, the censorship sub-division of the Intelligence Division of the Control Commission for Germany concerning the organisation and administration of district censorship stations, travelling censorship units and testing centres in the British zone of occupied Germany, There are also a few headquarters files dealing with operations of censorship by the Control Commission.
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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)
- CEN/BUR 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)
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- Control Office for Germany and Austria, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Censorship Bureau, 1945-1947
- Foreign Office, Control Commission for Germany (British Element), Intelligence Division, 1947-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 93 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- International
- Europe and Russia
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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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The Censorship Bureau and successor dealt with all aspects of the censorship of the mail of civilians, service personnel, displaced persons and prisoners of war in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8346/
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