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Series
Home Office: Private Office Papers
Catalogue reference: HO 317
What's it about?
HO 317
Personal papers of former Home Secretaries and Permanent Under Secretaries, Home Office registered papers which were retained in the Private Office, bound parliamentary papers and Home Secretary's engagement diaries for 1965-1983; also material...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 317
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Private Office Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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Personal papers of former Home Secretaries and Permanent Under Secretaries, Home Office registered papers which were retained in the Private Office, bound parliamentary papers and Home Secretary's engagement diaries for 1965-1983; also material relating to Ireland, principally for the period 1917-1923.
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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)
- 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)
- 104 files and volumes
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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 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9181/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
1,720,231 records
Within the department: HO
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