Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Home Office: United Nations Organisations (UNO Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 274
What's it about?
HO 274
Files from the Home Office UNO (United Nations Organisation) series.They concern the work of various United Nations bodies. Subjects covered include human rights, slavery and forced labour, refugees and stateless persons, passports and social welfare.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 274
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: United Nations Organisations (UNO Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1949-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office UNO (United Nations Organisation) series.
They concern the work of various United Nations bodies. Subjects covered include human rights, slavery and forced labour, refugees and stateless persons, passports and social welfare.
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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)
- UNO Symbol 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 53 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1984 Home Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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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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United Nations bodies that deal with subjects of interest to individual government departments request governments to appoint representatives of the relevant ministries to advise those bodies, to ensure that specialised knowledge is available to formulate policy, thus protecting the interests of national delegations. The Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and other Cabinet Ministers consult with and advise the permanent delegation based in New York. Sir Samuel Hoare, who was made an Assistant Under Secretary of State at the Home Office in 1948, was elected as first head of the United Kingdom delegation by reason of the themes covered
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9138/
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