The story of
Britain’s youngest prisoner of war: John Giles Hipkin
14-year-old cabin boy John Giles Hipkin became Britain's youngest Second World War prisoner of war in 1941 after he was captured at sea.
Series
Home Office: Publicity and Public Relations (PTY Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 303
What's it about?
HO 303
Files from the Home Office PTY (Publicity and Public Relations) series. The subjects covered form part of the functions and responsibilities of the Public Relations Branch. The files relate to Home Office involvement in the preparation,...
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 303
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Publicity and Public Relations (PTY Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1949-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office PTY (Publicity and Public Relations) series. The subjects covered form part of the functions and responsibilities of the Public Relations Branch. The files relate to Home Office involvement in the preparation, presentation and release of publicity material concerning prisons and borstals, civil defence recruitment campaigns, including the appointment of the Mabane Committee, assisting with the preparation of radio and television broadcasts, contributions to the press and the Municipal Year Book by various Home Secretaries, and press references to former enemy agents.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in PTY (1959) 1/31/1) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as PTY (1959) 1/31/1 would be PTY/59 1/31/1.
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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)
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PTY Symbol file series
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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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110 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 1986 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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- Topics
- Radio and television
- Children
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9167/
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Home Office: Publicity and Public Relations (PTY Symbol Series) Files
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