Record revealed
The first American invention to obtain an English patent
These intricate 1716 drawings were submitted by Sybilla Masters in the final stage of securing a patent for machinery for 'cleaning and curing Indian corn'.
Series
Home Office: Various (VAR Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 386
What's it about?
HO 386
Files from the Home Office VAR series, which was used for subjects which are not covered by other symbol series; subjects include burial removal licences, missing persons and divisional progress reports.The subjects covered by VAR originally...
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 386
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Various (VAR Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office VAR series, which was used for subjects which are not covered by other symbol series; subjects include burial removal licences, missing persons and divisional progress reports.
The subjects covered by VAR originally formed part of the remit of E4 Division, which was part of the General Department of the Home Office - amongst other issues the Department deals with are charity law, church matters, entertainment, human rights, liquor licensing, local acts, missing persons, privacy laws, private bills and some byelaws relating to pedlars, protection of animals and birds, shops laws and vivisection. The VAR series is presently dealt with by C5 Division, which deals mostly with drugs issues and which forms part of the Criminal Justice and Constitutional Department.
The files selected deal mainly with internal divisional progress reports, and also with the various statutory licences issued by local authorities.
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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 departmental file number. The inclusion of a date after a file number (as in VAR 3/1/1(66)) 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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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- VAR Symbol file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1996 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
- Democracy
- Research
- Food and drink
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9250/
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