Series
Home Office: Official Press Bureau
Catalogue reference: HO 139
What's it about?
HO 139
These are the surviving records of the Official Press Bureau.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 139
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Official Press Bureau
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Date (When the record was created)
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1914-1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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These are the surviving records of the Official Press Bureau.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee and predecessors see DEFE 53
See also INF 4/4B
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, Official Press Bureau, 1915-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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55 bundle(s)
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The majority of these records were destroyed by virtue of the Home Office Second Schedule of 3 February 1928 and most of the files now preserved have lost much of their original contents.
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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 Official Press Bureau was established in June 1915 under defence regulations from an unsuccessful voluntary bureau instituted by the War Office. The Home Secretary was made responsible for the bureau, which was under the charge of two directors, a journalist and a civil servant. It was responsible for the circulation of news to the press at home and abroad and for censoring the cables of war correspondents. The bureau was wound up in April 1919.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9003/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Official Press Bureau