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Series
Home Office: Expenditure, Works and Priorities (EMW Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 321
What's it about?
HO 321
Files from the Home Office EMW (Expenditure, Works and Priorities) series, relating to the reviewing of investment programmes and control of building works.Whilst concerned mainly with civil defence, the EMW series was not confined to that...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 321
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Expenditure, Works and Priorities (EMW Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1949-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office EMW (Expenditure, Works and Priorities) series, relating to the reviewing of investment programmes and control of building works.
Whilst concerned mainly with civil defence, the EMW series was not confined to that subject; it included all Home Office capital investment programmes. The series was raised to handle the Treasury co-ordinated gradual transition from controlled wartime to post-war conditions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In numerical order by departmental file number.
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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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EMW 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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12 file(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
- Construction industries
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9185/
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