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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Transport and successors, Road Transport: Registered Files

    This series consists of files of the Road Transport Division relating to freight transport and public service (passenger) transport. Subjects include the regulation and licensing of public service vehicles and staff and of road haulage undertakings o…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1927-1980
    Reference
    MT 97
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Register Office: National Registration: 1939 Register

    This series comprises digitally scanned versions of the enumerator's transcript books for the national registration of the civilian population that took place on the evening of 29 September 1939. The records, which cover only enumeration districts in…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939
    Reference
    RG 101
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Power, and of related bodies

    Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Fuel and Power and its successors, relating to the coal, iron, petroleum, electricity and nuclear energy industries, and concerning all aspects of those industries, including their post-war nationalisat…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1850-1998
    Reference
    POWE
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries: Animal Feeding Stuffs Correspondence and Papers

    This series deals with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' responsibilities and liaison with the Ministry of Food in respect of supplies and prices of feeding stuffs for livestock and the preparation and administration of schemes for the contr…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1937-1955
    Reference
    MAF 79
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Education and Ministry of Education: Evacuation Branch, Second World War,...

    Board of Education and Ministry of Education Evacuation Branch records reflecting their responsibilities for wartime services.The series contains a number of file series which were opened shortly after the outbreak of war. With one exception, these a…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1959
    Reference
    ED 134
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Food: Services Department: Distribution Group

    This series contains material on a wide variety of the Ministry of Food's functions, which include control over rationing for individuals, institutions and the services; the transportation, storage, preservation and manufacture of food and feedstuffs…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1938-1966
    Reference
    MAF 99
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Food: Legal Department Registered Files (L Series)

    This series contains ministerial orders on the rationing, distribution, pricing and general control of food and animal feedstuffs, also covering licensing of producers and traders. A few files on general policy and correspondence with interested part…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1981
    Reference
    MAF 150
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Food: Orders Committee

    This series contains papers of the Orders Committee and includes a number of ministerial orders in the rationing, distribution, pricing and general control of food and animal feed-stuffs.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1959
    Reference
    MAF 154
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Commercial Relations and Treaties...

    This series contians a ledger of licences regarding the import of plumage. The volume contains details of all licences issued for the importation of plumage under the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act 1921: date licence issued, licence number,…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1922-1975
    Reference
    BT 401
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence...

    Files relating to Local Fuel Overseers, rationing, distribution and control of supplies and miners' concessionary coal. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1958
    Reference
    POWE 18
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Education and predecessors: Local Education Authority Secondary Education,...

    Ministry of Education and predecessors files concerning the provision and improvement by local authorities of facilities for progressive post-elementary education in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.The series includes draft sc…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1869-1946
    Reference
    ED 53
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department of Energy: Oil Policy (Home) Division and successors: Registered Files...

    This series contains files of the Oil Policy (Home) Division of the Department of Energy and successor bodies. The records relate to the consideration and development of policy relating to the depletion and disposal of North Sea oil, pricing, lead in…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1970-1989
    Reference
    EG 13
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Food: War History Papers

    This series contains the working papers of R J Hammond, produced during his work on Food by R. J. Hammond, London 1951-1962The papers concern the Ministry of Food's general policy, the problems of supply, rationing, emergency services and commodity c…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1914-1962
    Reference
    MAF 152
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office and predecessors: Commissariat Department: Accounts

    These include: Crimea, 1854 to 1858: journals, cash accounts, warrant books, estimates, etc; Holland, 1798 to 1800: tabular account; New York, 1774 to 1784: general accounts, journals, ledgers, cash books, abstract books of rations for foreign troops…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1774-1858
    Reference
    WO 60
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), British Zone Petroleum...

    This series contains registered files of the British Zone Petroleum Co-ordinating Authority. They include papers relating to the rationing of petrol and diesel oil and to the disposal of surplus and contaminated stocks.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1946-1948
    Reference
    FO 1066
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Technology, Petroleum Division, and Predecessors: Correspondence and...

    This series is the main series for the Petroleum Division and includes records of preceding departments. It covers all matters relating to government intervention and legislation affecting supply and distribution of oil, petroleum and associated prod…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1901-1971
    Reference
    POWE 33
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Mines Department and Successor: Coal Division: Emergency Services, Correspondence...

    Files relating to the price, control, supply, demand and distribution of coal, coke, anthracite, etc, during the Second World War and up to the end of rationing in 1958. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1937-1965
    Reference
    POWE 17
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Board of Education and successors: Medical Branch and successors: Special Services,...

    Files of the Medical Branch and its successor, the Special Service Branch concerned with the consideration and formation of policy under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893; the Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic C…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1872-1974
    Reference
    ED 50
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Education Department and Board of Education: General Education, General Files

    General files of the Education Department and Board of Education concerning the administration of the Education Acts embracing educational matters common to, or not peculiar to, elementary or secondary education.Files preceding the current (1954) ser…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1865-1945
    Reference
    ED 10
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Gibraltar Garrison: Orders

    Orders to the military garrison in Gibraltar issued from the Town Major's Office, dealing largely with administrative matters.The orders record the following aspects of the life of the military garrison: arrival and departure of units and troopships;…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1720-1982
    Reference
    WO 284

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