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Series
Home Office: Civil Defence (Various Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 322
What's it about?
HO 322
This series contains files of the Civil Defence Department from the following file series: CDA: Civil Defence AdministrationCDI: Civil Defence IntelligenceCDP: Civil Defence PlanningCDS: Civil Defence SheltersCDT: Civil Defence TrainingCEM: Civil...
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 322
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Civil Defence (Various Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Civil Defence Department from the following file series:
- CDA: Civil Defence Administration
- CDI: Civil Defence Intelligence
- CDP: Civil Defence Planning
- CDS: Civil Defence Shelters
- CDT: Civil Defence Training
- CEM: Civil Emergencies
- ECE: Civil Defence Equipment: Policy
- ECO: Civil Defence: Co-ordination of Equipment and Transport
- ECT: Civil Defence Transport
They also deal with regional organisation (including minutes of the conferences of regional directors) and the Civil Defence Corps.
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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 by file reference number within each symbol series, and the series are arranged in alphabetical order. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in CDA (1960) 3/2/7) 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 CDA (1960) 3/2/7 would be CDA/60 3/2/7.
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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)
- 1260 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 1990 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
- Intelligence
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9186/
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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Home Office: Civil Defence (Various Symbol Series) Files
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