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Series
Home Office: Prisons Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: HO 20
What's it about?
HO 20
Original in-letters, reports of inspectors, etc. relating to the administration of convict, ship and local prisons and to their inmates. The series includes papers relating to criminal lunatics at Bethlem Hospital, 1823 to 1835, and a journal of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 20
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Prisons Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1820-1843
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Description (What the record is about)
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Original in-letters, reports of inspectors, etc. relating to the administration of convict, ship and local prisons and to their inmates. The series includes papers relating to criminal lunatics at Bethlem Hospital, 1823 to 1835, and a journal of the prison ship Mandarin, 1843.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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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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13 bundle(s)
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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
- Shipping
- Mental illness
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8884/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Prisons Correspondence and Papers
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