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Central Office of Information: Public Information Films
This series contains a selection of public information films produced by the Central Office of Information (COI) as part of national campaings designed to inform the public on issues which affect their daily lives, such as health, safety, welfare, ed…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1945-2005
- Reference
- INF 32
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- Catalogue level
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Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance
This series contains significant guidance for internal staff on significant areas of work relating to the key functions of the Public Record Office: e.g. guidance on cataloguing public records, user guides for key systems employed by the PRO.
- Held by
- Date
- 1987
- Reference
- PRO 73
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Department of Education and Science: Working Party on Public Lending Right: Agenda,...
This short lived series contains the agenda, minutes and papers of the Working Party on Public Lending Right during 1971-1972, relating to a proposed change in copyright law benefitting authors with publications in public libraries.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1971-1974
- Reference
- ED 254
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The National Archives: Electronic Records and Document Management System (Objective...
The series contains the agenda, minutes and summaries of The National Archives' Management Board.Records have been selected from the '2003-2008 file plan' for Objective 7 electronic records and document management system. The Management Board is the …
- Held by
- Date
- 1997-2007
- Reference
- RW 5
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Department of National Heritage and predecessor: Public Loans Committee Records (PLC...
This series contains records relating to the development of the British Library and cover co-ordination and progress of the project. The records also relate to a Public Loans function offered by the Department of the Environment in support of the Bri…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1990-1993
- Reference
- PF 412
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- Department
Publications (Maps) of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
Maps published by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.Old Series, New Series, and Third Edition one-inch maps of England and Wales are in ZOS 9, ZOS 10 and ZOS 11 respectively; one-inch maps of Scotland and Ireland are in ZOS 13 and ZOS 14 respectiv…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1801-1979
- Reference
- ZOS
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Geddes Papers
This series contains the papers of Sir Eric Geddes, the Deputy Director-General Munitions Supply. They include correspondence with Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions.The top enclosure in the file refers to an original memorandum on machine guns by L…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1915-1916
- Reference
- SUPP 12
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Public Record Office: Petrie Transcripts
This series contains transcripts of medieval chronicles, lives of saints, registers, etc, for the most part printed in the series of Chronicles and Memorials issued under the direction of the Master of the Rolls and elsewhere.These transcripts were a…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c600-1393
- Reference
- PRO 31/5
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations:...
The records cover a wide range of subject matter relating to colonial administration. They represent what was happening in the territories, mostly prior to independence, and Her Majesty's Government's views at that time, complementing other records h…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1835-2012
- Reference
- FCO 141
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Millennium Commission: Awards Scheme Database (AMIS)
The Awards Management Information System (AMIS) dataset is comprised of a relational database whose primary function was to serve as a repository of information related to the administration of the Millennium Awards Scheme; recording core details of …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1996-2004
- Reference
- MM 3
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Department of Trade and Industry: Enemy Property Claims Assessment Panel (EPCAP)...
The Enemy Property Claims Assessment Panel (EPCAP) dataset is a resource of compiled information. It contains the names and addresses of people who had their assets seized by the UK Government during the Second World War. The dataset is also a record…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1999-2008
- Reference
- NK 1
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Department of Education and Science: Library Advisory Council (England) and Associated...
Department of Education and Science minutes and papers for the Library Advisory Council (LAC) for England and in some instances of the LAC for Wales.Also included are the records of the council's sub-committees, some of which were joint committees of…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1966-1980
- Reference
- ED 241
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- Department
Records of The National Archives
Records added to the former collection of the Public Record Office from 1 April 2003 when the former body became The National Archives. Also includes Historical Manuscripts Collection (HMC) records relocated to The National Archives and private paper…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1790-2024
- Reference
- RW
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State Papers Office and other Bodies: Various Administrative Records, Precedents...
A collection of material which had some connection with either the clerks of the Secretaries of State or with the State Paper Office. The series includes a large number of Privy Council minutes and memoranda (otherwise in PC 2), a set of minutes of t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- Edward VI - 1862
- Reference
- SP 45
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Public Record Office: Surrogate Copies of Records: Moulds or Impressions of Seals...
This series is made up of digital images in greyscale of 6500+ plaster and rubber moulds and impressions of seals relating to a wide variety of documents held across The National Archives collections and across all chronological periods. The oldest m…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1880-1995
- Reference
- PRO 23
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Database of World War II Medals issued to Merchant...
At the conclusion of World War 2 an initial medal assessment was carried out and medal papers were raised including details of a seamans service. These were sent to ports to await the signature of the veteran, as to the accuracy of the informat…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1946-2002
- Reference
- BT 395
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Special Collections: Miscellaneous Objects Recovered from the Records of the Courts...
Coffers, skippets and other artefacts (otherwise in PRO 30/1), including keys and leather ink bottles, anciently used for the storage or creation of records; objects associated with or recovered from the site of the Rolls Chapel and the Liberty of th…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 13th century-19th century
- Reference
- SC 16
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Printed Cases in Indian and Colonial Appeals...
This series contains: 'Printed Cases in Indian and Colonial Appeals' (1792 to 1878), including appeals from the Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man); 'Printed Papers in Appeals' (1873 to 2008). The latter are a continuation of…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1792-2008
- Reference
- PCAP 6
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Export Credit Department and Export Credits Guarantee Department: Miscellanea
This series is a collection of unregistered material transferred to the Public Record Office at various times by the Export Credit Guarantees Department. Included in it are notes of evidence supplied to the Nieyermeyer Committee of Enquiry; memoranda…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1925-2003
- Reference
- ECG 4
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- Catalogue level
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Public Record Office: Registered Files (Numerical Series, 1971-1975)
Subject files dealing largely with questions of principle and policy. Many files deal with the work of the PRO's Records Administration Department (RAD) which was responsible for guiding the records work of other government departments. RAD files in …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1959-1979
- Reference
- PRO 67