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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from...

    This series contains records of the Prisoners of War and Aliens Department, and is one of the series of Foreign Office records arising from, and employing, the FO central registry system for correspondence for the period from 1906. The records in FO …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1915-1919
    Reference
    FO 383
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Government Code and Cypher School: Signals Intelligence Passed to the Prime Minister,...

    This series contains summaries of selected signals intelligence reports, issued by the Government Code and Cypher School and sent by the head of M16 ("C") to the Prime Minister (or, in his absence, the Deputy Prime Minister or the Lord Privy Seal) in…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1844-1945
    Reference
    HW 1
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Loraine Papers

    This series contains both personal and official papers, including photograph albums, of the diplomat Sir Percy Loraine (1880-1961). It includes correspondence of 1916 to 1949 with Loraine's friend and fellow diplomat Sir Lancelot Oliphant (1881-1965)…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1836-1973
    Reference
    FO 1011
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Government Code and Cypher School and Government Communications Headquarters: Records...

    This series contains records produced during the production of the History of British Signals Intelligence in World War II (now preserved in HW 11). These working papers cover all aspects of the work carried out at Bletchley Park, as well as intercep…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1914-1954
    Reference
    HW 50
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Government Code and Cypher School: Security of Allied Cyphers Section: Security Files...

    This series contains files produced by the Security of Allied Cyphers Section, dealing with various aspects of work to prevent and counter enemy penetration of allied cyphers during the Second World War. A number of the files, though opened during th…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1917-1979
    Reference
    HW 40
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Transport, Defence Planning and Emergency Transport Committees

    This series contains papers relating to the preparation of defence measures before the Second World War affecting road and rail transport and ports, including the setting up of regional organisations. Records include papers and minutes of the Defence…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1919-1952
    Reference
    MT 50
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Food: Senior Officers' Papers

    Papers of senior officers of the Ministry of Food, mostly from the period of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, dealing with all aspects of the ministry's functions in controlling the processing, manufacture and distribution of foodstu…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1938-1978
    Reference
    MAF 128
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records of the Ministry of Munitions and successors, including papers of David Lloyd...

    Records of the Ministry of Munitions and successors relating to the supply of munitions during the First World War.Comprises:Records of the Central Registry, etc. MUN 4Historical Records Branch, MUN 5Munitions Council daily reports, MUN 1Requirements…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1881-1943
    Reference
    MUN
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    Series

    Foreign Office: Permanent Under-Secretary's Department: Registered and Unregistered...

    This series consists of a collection of registered and unregistered papers originating in the Office of the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, (PUS) of the Foreign Office and the Permanent Under-Secretary's Department, (PUSD) relating to liaison wit…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1873-1985
    Reference
    FO 1093
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Commonwealth Office, Far East and Pacific Department and Foreign and Commonwealth...

    This series contains the records of the Far East and Pacific Department of the Commonwealth Office in the period January 1967 to October 1968, and thereafter the records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office South West Pacific Department. The record…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1966-1978
    Reference
    FCO 24
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Near East and North Africa Department: Registered...

    This series contains selected records relating to UK relations with Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania (from 1990), Morocco, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and with the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1972-1995
    Reference
    FCO 93
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office, Eastern Department and successors: Registered Files (E and NE Series)

    This series contains records of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office to October 1968 dealing with UK relations with the Middle East generally, especially following the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, and with Afghanistan, the Palestine question, Jo…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1966-1973
    Reference
    FCO 17
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Defence Regulation 18B, Advisory Committee Papers

    Papers of the Advisory Committee on Defence Regulation 18B, comprising mainly transcripts of its hearings of individual cases of detainees. These concern Sir Oswald Mosley's appeal against his detention during the Second World War and include papers …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1935-1945
    Reference
    HO 283
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Shipping Control and Operation: Correspondence and Papers

    This series consists of papers of the Ministry of Shipping, the Ministry of War Transport and the post-war transport ministries. The wartime files are mostly concerned with the centralised direction of shipping during the emergency conditions of the …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1919-1998
    Reference
    MT 59
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Directorate of Army Medical Services and Territorial Force: Nursing Service...

    Correspondence files of the Directorate of Army Medical Services and Territorial Force containing service records of women who served in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and Territorial Force Nursing Service and other associated bo…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    c1914 - c1939
    Reference
    WO 399
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Justices in Eyre, of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of the Peace, etc: Rolls and...

    This miscellaneous series includes the majority of the plea rolls recording proceedings before the various kinds of itinerant royal justices who worked in England from the late twelfth century to the fifteenth century, and a variety of other, mostly …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1198-1528
    Reference
    JUST 1
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Cabinet Office: Cabinet Secretary's Miscellaneous Papers

    This series consists of a series of miscellaneous unregistered papers originating in the Private Office of the Cabinet Secretary. They were gathered together for the personal use of the Cabinet Secretary in the exercise of his duties. In many cases, …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1936-1990
    Reference
    CAB 301
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Education and Ministry of Education: Drafts and Papers of Official History...

    Draft chapters of an official history of education written by Dr. Sophia Weitzman and a collection of her source material, some of it of an earlier date than 1939.At the time of Dr Weitzman's death, the draft history had been conceived as two volumes…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    [c.1890]-1954
    Reference
    ED 138
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office

    The vast majority of these records are those of the Foreign Office, which from 1782 to 1968 was responsible for correspondence and negotiations with other states and the conduct of British foreign policy. Also contained are some records of the Foreig…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1567-2004
    Reference
    FO
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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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