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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Governor (Spandau Prison), British...

    This series contains records which document the running of Spandau prison and the lives of the prisoners. The records were sent to the UK by the last British Governor after the death of the last inmate and the dismantling of the prison in 1987. The c…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1945-2000
    Reference
    FCO 161
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Bonn, West Germany:...

    This series contains general correspondence from the British Embassy in Bonn, West Germany. The files cover a wide range of subjects, including the disposal of Nazi property, war criminals and the management of Spandau Prison, Communist infiltration,…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1952-1974
    Reference
    FO 1042
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Inquiry into Prison Disturbances (Woolf Inquiry): Records

    Transcripts of public hearings and seminars, and submissions from organizations and individuals relating to the inquiry into prison disturbances at HM Prison Manchester (Strangeways) and elsewhere in 1990.The report of the inquiry (Cm 1456) was publi…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1986-1992
    Reference
    HO 370
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Coroners' Rolls and Files, with Cognate Documents

    Coroners' rolls and files, and similar records like sheriffs' crown pleas rolls and writs of exigent. The coroners' rolls and files are for counties, boroughs and liberties, and they record inquests into all unnatural and sudden deaths, deaths in pri…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1228-1426
    Reference
    JUST 2
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the...

    Principally registers, 1667-c1777 (with some indexes, 1698-1754) and note books, 1682-1774, giving particulars of clandestine marriages and baptisms performed in the Fleet Prison, at the May Fair Chapel, at King's Bench Prison or within the Mint, as …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1667-c1777
    Reference
    RG 7
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Children's Department and Prison Department: Children and Young Offenders...

    This series contains Children and Young Offenders files (CHN symbol series) of the Home Office Children's Department and Prison Department.From 1971 Home Office files in this series relate solely to policy on treatment of young offenders, and the rec…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1948-2003
    Reference
    HO 416
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Home Secretary: Prison Services Monitoring

    This series contains records relating to Prison Services Monitoring.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1993-1997
    Reference
    HO 606
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons

    Records of debtors' prisons from the seventeeth to nineteenth centuries, relating both to individual prisoners and prison administration. They comprise those of the:Fleet PrisonMarshalsea PrisonKing's Bench Prison and its successor, the Queen's Priso…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1628-1862
    Reference
    PRIS
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Prison Department: Administration (DIS Symbol Series) Files

    The records relate to the functions and responsibilities of the Home Office concerning prison farms and industries. The records mainly comprise of the Senior Management Committee meetings minutes and papers relating to this function. A corporate name…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1969-1987
    Reference
    HO 475
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Home Secretary: Inspections of Prisons: Registered Files (IP Series)

    This series contains records relating to the promulgation of laws for the inspections of prisons, including immigration and detention.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1997-2001
    Reference
    HO 595
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Office of Works and successors: Civil Defence and Prison Building: Registered Files...

    This series contains correspondence and papers relating to air raid precautions, the construction of shelters for government offices and the public, structural precautions in public buildings, lighting restrictions and other civil defence measures.Mo…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1895-1986
    Reference
    WORK 28
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    HM Prison Service Website

    This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the HM Prison Service website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel li…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    From 2000
    Reference
    NOMS 1
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consular Department: Case Files

    Consular case files contain varied material depending on the case they cover. For example, where a British national is detained for a significant period of time, prison reports are included, often covering a number of years and where there has been a…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1974-1997
    Reference
    FCO 180
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Independent Monitoring Boards for Prisons and Immigration Removal Centres Website

    This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Independent Monitoring Boards for Prisons and Immigration Removal Centres website.[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links list…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    From 2006
    Reference
    MJ 33
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    North Sea Camp Open Prison Website

    This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the North Sea Camp Open Prison website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive].

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    From 2008
    Reference
    NOMS 5
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    HM Inspectorate of Prisons Website

    This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the HM Inspectorate of Prisons website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these pa…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    From 2009
    Reference
    MJ 44
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Parole Board: Policy and Operational Files

    The subjects covered in this series form part of the functions and responsibilities of the Parole Board of England and Wales. The files relate to Parole Board minutes of general purpose meetings, annual conferences, proposals for research, correspond…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1967-1998
    Reference
    BV 3
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department of Health: Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders: Registered Files

    This series contains files relating to a review of the Mental Health Act 1959, including the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (Butler Committee), Home Office Criminal Law Revision Committee review of sex offenders, Forensic Psychiatry Researc…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1979-2010
    Reference
    JA 663
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Home Office: Departmental Whitley Council: Minutes

    This series contains minutes of the Home Office Departmental Whitley Council (DWC) from its first meeting in April 1920. The DWC met until January 1937. It then met twice, in 1943 and 1945, as the Home Office and Ministry of Home Security DWC before …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1920-1966
    Reference
    HO 404
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Committee on the Prison Disciplinary System: Report and Papers

    The report, minutes, evidence, and other papers of this Committee, which was set up in 1984 to examine arrangements for dealing with alleged disciplinary offences by prisoners.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1980-1986
    Reference
    HO 318

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