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Series
Home Office: Aliens, General Matters (ALG Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 352
What's it about?
HO 352
This series contains files from the Home Office ALG (Aliens General) series created by the Aliens Department which in 1962 became the Immigration and Nationality Department. The files relate to general establishment matters, policy and casework...
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 352
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Aliens, General Matters (ALG Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files from the Home Office ALG (Aliens General) series created by the Aliens Department which in 1962 became the Immigration and Nationality Department. The files relate to general establishment matters, policy and casework on a variety of immigration and aliens issues.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The inclusion of a date following a file number (eg. ALG 1/1/3(60)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The ALG series was succeeded by the IMG (Immigration) series and these files are in HO 394
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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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ALG 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, Aliens Department (B Department), 1913-1962
- Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Department, 1962-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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158 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
- Migration
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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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In 1962 the Aliens Department merged with the Naturalisation and Nationality Division and was renamed the Immigration and Nationality Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9216/
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